Shredded Beef with Tzatziki Sauce

Serves 4
10mins prep.time
5-9 hours cooking time

What you need:

• 3 tablespoon natural yoghurt
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 garlic cloves (chopped)
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 657g steak beef (diced)

For the sauce

• 1 cucumber (peeled, deseeded and grated)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 225ml natural yoghurt
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 50g mint leaves (chopped)

To serve

• 1 tomato (cut into wedges)
• 115g lettuce (shredded)
• pitta bread or flatbread

Put the yoghurt, lemon juice, garlic, oregano, salt and pepper into the slow cooker and stir.  Add the beef to the mixture and turn to coat it in the mixture.  Cover and cook for 5 hours (on a low setting) or 9 hours (on a high setting), until the beef is tender.  

Shred the beef and mix it with the cooking juices.

To make the sauce, put the yoghurt, salt, lemon juice and mint in a bowl and mix well.  Place the cucumber on kitchen roll and sprinkle with some salt.  Using the kitchen roll squeeze the juice out of the cucumber and then add it to the sauce mixture.

Serve the shredded beef on a flat bread, drizzled with the sauce and topped with the lettuce and tomato wedges.