Do-it-yourself Rooster Gyros w/ Tzatziki Sauce

For Cade’s rooster gyros, the rooster is marinated in a tangy yogurt sauce loaded with garlic, lemon, recent herbs and spices. Then it’s baked and piled into gentle pita bread and topped with veggies, feta and creamy tzatziki sauce!

Alright, so Cade has reentered the kitchen and I’m past thrilled as a result of he knocked this one out of the park!! I can not get sufficient of the juicy, succulent rooster and I’m simply certain we will discover extra makes use of for it than simply gyros. Scroll right down to see a few of my concepts.

The best way to Pronounce Gyros

Let’s begin with how NOT to say “gyros”…mainly don’t say it the way it seems to be! It’s not pronounced jai-rohs. Although I’m certain everybody would know what you had been ordering in the event you did say it that approach. The right method to pronounce “gyros” is yee-rohs.

What’s a Greek Gyro?

A gyro is sandwich sometimes made with both lamb, pork, beef or rooster (or some mixture of the these) on pita bread topped with tomato, pink onion, lettuce and tzatziki sauce. It’s eaten like a wrap. It makes an important lunch or dinner.

Components for Rooster Gyros

Here’s a temporary overview of the substances you’ll need for this gyro recipe. The measurements of every could be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of the publish.

• Rooster Thighs: You need them to be boneless and skinless and rooster breasts additionally work superb. Rooster thighs simply are inclined to have extra taste.
• Plain Greek Yogurt: provides taste to the marinade and helps tenderize the meat. It additionally makes the marinade thick so it sticks to the rooster while you bake it.
• Garlic: the aim for garlic is all the time so as to add taste and also you’ll need a variety of it on this recipe!
• Olive Oil: provides richness to the marinade and likewise helps it not stick when baking
• White Wine Vinegar: provides tanginess and taste
• Lemons: recent is a should and also you’ll need the juice and zest for max taste
• Oregano: recent is unquestionably most well-liked right here, if it’s a must to use dried then use 1 teaspoon
• Parsley: identical story because the oregano 👆
• Herbs de Provence: Italian seasoning additionally works too, and this can be a dried herb mix
• Salt: provides taste
• Smoked Paprika: provides a scrumptious smokiness to the rooster
• Black Pepper: provides taste and a bit of warmth
• Crushed Crimson Pepper Flakes: use as a lot or as little as you need for the warmth on the rooster

For the Gyros:

• Small Campari Tomatoes: You may use sort of tomato you need however I really like the scale and taste of the campari tomatoes!
• Crimson Onion: slice them tremendous skinny, they add a lot taste and exquisite coloration to the gyros
• Parsley: provides a scrumptious pop of freshness to the completed gyro
• Pita Flatbreads: you should purchase these on the grocery retailer or make your personal, naan bread additionally works nice!
• Tzatziki: we like to make our personal, it’s really easy! However you too can purchase it on the retailer. Costco sells a fairly first rate one!
• Feta: provides a daring salty taste to the gyro however is elective in the event you aren’t a feta fan
• Cucumber: completely elective nevertheless it provides an important crunch and freshness to the sandwich
• Lettuce: we like to make use of inexperienced leaf

The best way to Make This Gyros Recipe

Earlier than you soar into this recipe, you wish to ensure you have tzatziki sauce made. So in the event you haven’t carried out that, do this first, after which begin engaged on the rooster. Tzatziki sauce tastes higher if it has rested for an hour or extra to let the flavors meld collectively. Now for the rooster…

Marinade: Add all of the substances for the marinade right into a ziplock bag after which add the rooster. Squish all the pieces round (the youngsters love doing this half!) so it mixes collectively after which place it within the fridge to marinate for at the least 2 hours as much as in a single day.

Cook dinner Rooster: As soon as the rooster has marinated, bake the rooster in a bread pan. Baking it in a decent dish, retains the rooster moist. See recipe card under for particulars.

• PRO TIP: You can too grill the rooster! Cook dinner them as complete items after which chop them up for serving, or chop them up forward of time and grill the items on skewers.

Toppings: That is the place you may completely customise your personal gyro! Sometimes a gyro is served with lettuce, tomato, pink onion and tzatziki sauce. We love so as to add feta, cucumbers and a few recent parsley.

• Extra toppings: If you wish to add extra toppings or swap out a number of the typical toppings, you would attempt kalamata olives, banana peppers, pink bell peppers, artichoke hearts or avocados.

Suggestions for the Greatest Rooster Gyros

Ensure you might have prepped the tzatziki sauce forward of time. It might probably me made as much as a day forward of time, however in the event you at the least make it earlier than you begin with on the rooster, your style buds will thanks.

Don’t overcook the rooster! Rooster can get a nasty wrap for all the time being dry, so let it marinade for at the least 2 hours and don’t let it bake too lengthy within the oven (or on the grill).

Use recent substances within the yogurt marinade, within the tzatziki sauce and for the toppings.

Let every particular person customise their very own gyro. I prefer to put all of the toppings in separate little bowls and let the fam meeting line their very own gyro creations!

Why You Will Love This Recipe

• Straightforward: the marinating and baking the rooster makes this recipe really easy! Then it’s only a matter of chopping up the toppings and assembling the gyros.
• Meal prep: this rooster recipe is nice for meal prep as a result of it tastes nice sizzling or chilly and it shops very properly. I prefer to make a double or triple batch after which prep lunch for the week after which freeze the remaining for future gyros.
• Wholesome: nearly all of the substances for the yogurt marinade for the rooster and for the gyros themselves are recent. This makes for excellent taste and vitamin!
  • PRO TIP: If you wish to lower carbs, skip the pita and simply make it a bowl or add all the pieces on prime of a mattress of lettuce.
• Multipurpose: Let’s not cease the love with simply gyros! This rooster is scrumptious in every kind of the way. I adore it in salads, wraps, over rice or simply plain for lunch.

What to Serve with Gyros

With the rooster, the pita and all of the recent veggies that go on the gyros, this recipe is a meal by itself. It actually checks all of the bins.

If you wish to add a few sides to go along with them, we love having a pile a sizzling salty fries to dip into the tzatziki sauce. Our Greek salad go nice with them as properly!

Storing, Freezing and Reheating

I discussed above that the rooster shops and freezes extraordinarily properly. Retailer it individually in an hermetic container within the fridge. It should maintain for as much as 5 days. NOTE: All of the substances for gyros needs to be saved individually and never as an assembled gyro. The pita will get soggy and it gained’t maintain up properly.

Once you’re able to assemble your gyro the following day for lunch, the rooster will reheat nice within the microwave after which add all of the toppings with the rooster to your warmed pita bread. If in case you have a number of servings of rooster to heat up, put it in a baking dish will a bit of water or rooster inventory and canopy it should foil and heat it up within the oven at 350 levels for 10 or so minutes.

If in case you have rooster you wish to freeze, let it cool utterly after which add it to a freezer ziploc bag. Lay it flat so it shops properly. It should maintain within the freezer for as much as 3 months.

Cade has had this recipe at the back of his thoughts for years and we’re all grateful he has made it a actuality! Do-it-yourself rooster gyros are taking their spot in our common dinner menu rotation and they’re right here to remain! So flavorful! So recent and wholesome!

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