Gyros is pita stuffed with meat cooked on a vertical skewer. To create this food, both beef and chicken can be used. Although in our time you can see a vegetarian gyros, its recipe will be considered in our article. But let's start with the meat option.
Meat recipe
For cooking you will need:
• two tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
• ¼ cup lemon juice;
• three medium cloves of garlic;
• a tablespoon of red wine vinegar;
• salt;
• three chicken breasts (approximately grams 650);
• teaspoon of sugar;
• pepper (ground);
• 2 tablespoons of plain yogurt;
• 0.5 cups feta cheese;
• red onion (half);
• tomato and red bell pepper;
• half of one cucumber;
• 5 pieces pit.
To prepare the sauce you will need:• half of the cucumber;
• 200 ml of Greek yogurt;
• clove of garlic;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• half a tablespoon of fresh dill and white wine vinegar;
• 0.25 tsp freshly ground pepper;
• a tablespoon of lemon (freshly squeezed) juice.
Gyros: recipe
1. In a bowl, beat butter, salt, lemon juice, pepper, vinegar, garlic (crushed) and sugar. Pour three tablespoons into a separate container. tablespoons of the resulting marinade. In the remaining, add yogurt, 1 tsp. salt. Put the chicken in the marinade, cover with a film. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
2. Preheat the grill.
3. Make the sauce. Grate the cucumber, put in a bowl, add salt. Set aside for 15 minutes, strain, remove the liquid.
4. Then mix the cucumber with yogurt, lemon juice, vinegar, dill, black pepper, garlic (crushed).
5. Finely chop the bell pepper, onion, tomato, cucumber. Crush the cheese.
6. In a bowl add 2 tbsp. l reserved marinade and chopped onions. Then add the vegetables and cheese.
7. Remove the chicken from the marinade, grill it, and brown for five minutes. Turn the meat over, fry on the other side for 4 minutes.
8. Put chicken legs on a plate.
9. Grill pita for about twenty seconds on each side.
10. Wrap the finished pita in foil.
11. Cut the chicken into strips, mix with the marinade (one tablespoon). Put chicken with vegetables on the dish. Then serve with pita.
Gyros recipe at home
Such a dish is prepared quite simply. This dish will delight lovers of Greek cuisine.
To prepare a gyros, the recipe of which we are now describing, you will need:
• two pitas;
• three pinches of black pepper;
• one tomato;
• 120 grams of beef;
• two pinches of lemon pepper;
• 60 grams of feta cheese ;
• 3 drops of Worcestershire sauce;
• a pinch of paprika;
• teaspoon of garlic powder;
• olive oil (0.5 tbsp. L.);
• 180 grams of olives.
For the sauce you will need:
• one cucumber;
• two drops of white wine vinegar;
• one container of Greek yogurt (240 grams);
• half a teaspoon of salt and dill;
• half red onion.
Cooking
1. Let's start describing the Greek gyros recipe with the filling. First, heat the oil in a pan, add beef, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, lemon pepper, black pepper, garlic powder (0.5 tsp). Sauté until cooked. After set aside the resulting Zaziki sauce to cool.
2. Cut half the cucumber and ¼ onion into small cubes, then mix with yogurt. Then add salt, vinegar, dill. Shuffle.
3. Sprinkle flat cakes with butter. Preheat them in the oven until soft. Then fill the tortillas with beef, pour the sauce.
4. Serve gyros with chopped cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, olives and feta cheese.
Gyros: recipe with potatoes and feta cheese
This cooking option will appeal to those who do not eat meat. Such a gyros is vegetarian.
For cooking you will need:
• one medium cucumber;
• a glass of feta cheese;
• a glass of cherry tomatoes;
• pita (4 pcs.);
• two glasses of romaine lettuce;
• a cup of Greek yogurt (2%);
• nine cloves of garlic (one chopped and eight whole);
• 2 tsp fresh lemon juice;
• black pepper;
• 330 grams of small potatoes (red);
• salt;
• ¼ red onion;
• two tbsp. l + two tsp olive oil.
The process of creating a dish
1. Preheat the oven.
2. Grate the cucumber, squeeze through cheesecloth.
3. Mix yogurt, garlic (minced), salt, pepper, olive oil (2 tsp), lemon juice in a bowl with cucumber. Then set the container aside.
4. Put potatoes in a pot, pour water. Cover, bring to a boil over high heat. After reduce the flame. Cook over low heat until cooked (about 20 minutes).
5. At this time, pour the oil into the pan (2 tbsp. Tablespoons) and put the garlic cloves (8 pcs.). Cook over medium heat until golden. The process will take about five minutes.
6. Then drain the potatoes. ¼ pour a glass of potato broth into a glass.
7. Return the potatoes to the pan.
8. Then add the garlic and butter, onion (chopped), cheese.
9. Soften the potatoes with a fork to the consistency of mashed potatoes. Cover the resulting mass with a lid.
10. Wrap the pita in foil. Preheat in the oven for ten minutes.
11. Put on each pita two tbsp. tablespoons of cucumber mass.
12. Then divide half the salad and chopped tomatoes between the four pits. Place ¼ potato mix on top of each. Then divide the remaining cucumber mass, tomatoes and salad between all the pits. On top of each lay out. After serve to the table.
Conclusion
Now you know how gyros are made. The recipe with the photo presented in the article will help you understand the technology of creating dishes.