Easy Homemade Gyros Recipe
Gyros is typical Greek street food, very similar to kebab, filled with veal, pork, or lamb meat that is cooked on long skewers and cut into thin slices. Aromatic meat wrapped in pita and seasoned with fresh veggies and creamy tzatziki sauce is a real culinary triumph.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 580kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup minced pork
- 1 cup minced beef
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp granulated garlic
- 1 tsp ground pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
For serving
- 4 pitas
- 1 cup tzatziki sauce
- 1 tomato sliced
- 1 cucumber sliced
- 1 red onion sliced
Instructions
- Mix the ground meat with the spices
- Pulse onion and garlic cloves
- Mix with meat
- Make medium-sized patties and lay them on a baking tray
- Preheat the oven to 360F
- Bake the gyros patties for 20-25 minutes
- Take out of the oven and slice them into halves
- Slice the onion, cucumber, and tomato
- Take one pita and add in the tzatziki sauce, slices of meat, cucumber, onion, and tomatoes
- Wrap carefully
- Serve with pleasure
Nutrition
Calories: 580kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 90mg | Sodium: 1252mg | Potassium: 678mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 770IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 187mg | Iron: 3mg