Simple Weeknight Greek Chicken Burritos {or Wraps!}
These simple Greek chicken burritos (or wraps) with quick pickled onions and homemade tzatziki sauce are easy and incredibly delicious!
There are a couple recipes (ok, hundreds) that make me wish I could reach through the computer screen, grab hold of your little shoulders, and give you a gentle but firm shake to convince you that you need to make that recipe.
Like, make it right now.
These Greek chicken burritos are just that kind of recipe.
I always tend to get a little sappy over Greek-style food. You know that already.
I mean, you’ve seen me almost sob with happiness over this amazing (and crazy simple) Greek feta appetizer.
I’ve waxed similarly poetic about this Greek pita salad (so incredible – if you haven’t made it yet, well, I’ll try not to be mad).
There are these Big Fat Greek Tacos (!!), simple Grilled Greek Chicken Kebabs, Greek Meatball Stuffed Pitas (hold me), and Greek Chicken Pita Pockets {Slow Cooker}, to name just a few more.
I’m not saying any of those dishes are 100% authentic, but in the name of Greek-style food, I love them all. Terribly.
Probably the culmination of all my favorite Greek-style recipes are these homemade Greek pocketless pitas – basically, the best flatbread in the universe.
Of course, I don’t reserve that divine flatbread for only Greek-ish recipes. It is a lover of all cuisines and appears very often around here.
You can even use it in today’s Greek chicken burrito (or wrap) recipe! Oh, the deliciousness.
Extra rock star points will immediately come your way if you choose to do so.
You can see that I forewent the extra credit in favor of simplifying. Tortillas or other storebought wrap bread work wonderfully in this recipe, too.
Hallelujah for easy.
These tasty Greek chicken burritos won me over big time; they are totally the type of meal I could eat day in and day out for dinner.
My family might revolt if I actually decided to do that…not because they don’t like these Greek burritos (they were a huge favorite with everyone), but because for some reason, they feel like they need an opinion about not eating the same meal for a month straight.
Kind of high maintenance, if you ask me.
It’s ok, though. Just like I did when I fell head over heels for these Thai Crunch Wraps and decided I needed to eat them every day, I’ve been prepping the ingredients for these Greek chicken burritos and savoring every morsel for my own personal lunch.
Not going to lie, I’m also savoring the not-having-to-share aspect.
Don’t judge. Moms are allowed that selfish privilege every now and then.
Each of the components for these divine Greek chicken wraps comes together really fast, and even better, they can all be made ahead of time.
The combination of that flavorful grilled chicken, those delightfully crunchy quick-pickled onions, creamy tzatziki sauce (my undoing), lettuce, tomatoes and feta cheese is straight up amazingly delicious.
I hope you love these Greek chicken burritos as much as I do!
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Greek Pita Salad or this Orzo Salad with Tomatoes, Basil and Feta
Crackers or chips
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Make Ahead: each of the components for this recipe can be made ahead of time. The pickled onions can be refrigerated for several days - same with the tzatziki sauce. Chicken: if you have the time, try rubbing the spice mixture on the chicken and letting it rest/marinade for up to 12 hours. After being grilled, the chicken can also be refrigerated and used for leftover wraps (or for quick lunches). As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.Greek Chicken Burritos {or Wraps}
Ingredients
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Tzatziki Sauce:
Greek Chicken + Extras:
Instructions
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These are amazing! The pickled onion and tzatziki are super yummy in here. I’ve only made it with the homemade flatbread but the whole family loves these. Delicious!
amazing
Does the chicken need to marinade at all? I was just noticing it says this recipe takes 25 hours so I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to marinate for a day first or if that was a mistake!
That’s supposed to be 25 minutes not hours! Sorry about that!
Amazing as always….loved this so much, we did it for our Easter Dinner….it was a hit and sounds like it will be the go to meal for Easter from now on…
Yay! Finally a recipe everyone in my family liked! And they were so easy to whip up! Thank you!!
Yay!
This is speaking my love food language! Thank you for sharing, such a yummy idea! can’t wait to put it on my menu for this week!
Your Big Fat Greek Tacos are a favorite of mine and these did not disappoint! I used very thin chicken breast and cooked them on a cast iron skillet on the stove. I often soak my red onion in red wine vinegar to take out the bite. I loved your version of the quick pickled onions. I didn’t add the sugar and didn’t miss it. The kids had feta on theirs but all the great flavors here I left it off. I use fresh made in store flour tortillas for the kids and corn tortillas for my husband and I so they are gluten free. They would be amazing on fresh soft pita bread. Everyone loved it!
Glad you loved these, Kate!
This looks so fresh and amazing! I need this in my life asap!
Paige
http://thehappyflammily.com
For the tzatziki sauce, do you usually use your homemade yogurt or do you buy greek yogurt?
These look fantastic and are going on the menu for next week. Your tortilla looked so crispy/crackly and delicious looking. Did you just heat them on the frying pan and then roll them (I know the recipe says that) or roll them up first and pop it in a pan (a la your crispy chicken wraps)? Sometimes when I make those I put a smidge of olive oil in the pan first and boy do those babies come out looking fine. 🙂 As always, thanks for the inspiration and yumminess, Mel. Don’t know what I’d do without you!
Hey Michelle – the time I made these and took photos, I used the uncooked tortillas (I get them at Costco) and cook them on the griddle before using. They are extra crispy which is yummy (but did make for some less than perfect looking burritos – oh well!).
I thought they looked perfectly perfect…would have licked them through my screen if I could! 🙂
I am totally with you on Greek style food. These look yummy! And I love tzatziki sauce!! My husband on the other hand hates anything with cucumber.
Love your recipes. Wish you had a yummly button on your blog to save your recipes.
Hi Caroline – I’m working on that!
this looks amazing Mel. And I, like you, love to have something like this that I can make all the ingredients, keep them in the fridge and eat them daily (all by myself) for days!!! –Think –Yum Bowls and Thai Chicken Crunch wraps, oh and last week it was spinach and cheese enchiladas, and tilapia tacos. (my family did discover the enchiladas and they didn’t last very long). Needless to say, I make things in the middle of the day, and hide them away so I have something “delish” to enjoy for lunch… on the sly. .. sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t, but you are my inspiration !! Thanks for another great recipe for my personal arsenal!!