The best homemade Gyro recipe with fries and homemade tzatziki
Serves 2
Directions
- 1Add onions and garlic to ground lamb and beef.
- 2Add herbs and spices to the meat mixture and blitz it up.
- 3Add a moisture-retaining ingredient ( tri poly phosphate) a meat-setting ingredient to the mixture.
- 4Line a container (taller than wide) with plastic wrap and place the meat mixture inside.
- 5Refrigerate the spiced meat mixture for a day.
- 6Bake the meat log in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven until it reaches an internal temperature of 160-165 Fahrenheit.
- 7Prepare toppings such as tomato, onion, and cucumber.
- 8Make tzatziki by grating cucumber into yogurt, then adding chopped herbs, honey, black pepper, salt, lemon juice, and a dash of MSG.
- 9Sprinkle pitas with olive oil and oregano and warm them in the oven.
- 10Once the gyro reaches temperature, slice it.
- 11Assemble the gyro with the sliced meat, toppings, and tzatziki on warm pitas.
- 12Toss Greek fries in lemon juice, feta, dill, and oregano.
Ingredients
- Onions
- garlic
- ground lamb
- beef eye
- herbs and spices
- moisture-retaining ingredient
- meat-setting ingredient
- tomato
- onion
- cucumber
- yogurt
- chopped herbs
- honey
- black pepper
- salt
- lemon juice
- 1 dash MSG
- pitas
- olive oil
- oregano
- Greek fries
- lemon juice
- feta
- dill
- oregano
Equipment
containerplastic wrapmeat standthermometeroven
Tips
- Use a moisture-retaining ingredient like tripolyphosphate for maximum juiciness.
- Use a meat-setting ingredient to hold the meat log together.
- Line a container that's taller than it is wide with plastic wrap for shaping the meat.
- Consider adding cucumber to your gyro.
- For tzatziki, add a dash of MSG.
- Warm pitas with olive oil and oregano in the oven.
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