Shuley Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 I have been thinking about doing gyros for several months， and lucky for me this challenge finally pushed me to do it! This made for an awesome dinner and I can tell you I will never crave a gyro from a restaurant again. Anyway I started with the gyro meat ingredients. I looked at a few recipes to get an idea of my seasonings but really just did what I felt like. Processed the onions then wrung them out with a towel. I could not believe the amount of liquid that they released. Then added the other ingredients. Processed then formed into a log and put in the fridge for several hours. Then I worked on the veggie marinade/Greek salad dressing. threw it all in the food processor.got out all my veggies (minus the hearts of romaine)chopped， skewered and poured the marinade on them. They went on the fridge and I rotated them every hour or so.then I got my ingredients for the Tzatziki sauce. I forgot to take an after picture. Then I finally got to the pita bread. I ended up mixing up recipies and so I didn't have everything in hand I needed and that changed the hydration， but I just did it by sight and it turned out super well! I realized I never took a picture of how much it rose....but it was a lot and really developed a lot of flavor too. A while later I lit koko Kamado and then prepped my salad. cut in half with salt and olive oil rubbed in. Then I got my meat on. put my dough into disks for a second rise. after just under an hour I put the lettuce and veggie skewers on. This was a tricky picture because I had the upper rack with stone heating for the pitas.took the meat off and let it rest.off came the lettuce.skewers stayed in for a bit as the grill got hotter. Took them off about 10 minutes later.cooked the pitas....these were soooooo much better than store bought. also they were very hard to transfer without stretching and making crazy shapes!while the last pitas were on， I started slicing the meat. You can see a smoke ring on this even after only an hour.then it was time to assemble. With Tzatziki， chili garlic sauce and some grilled veggies alongside a delicious grilled Greek salad.like I said....this was AMAZING. If you like lamb I highly recommend trying these at home! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Ora Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Looks amazing top effort. I'm waiting for the chance to do my burn in so I can try out the baking stoneOutback Kamado Bar and Grill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckreef Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Grilled everything, nice gyro. Great entry cook. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve M Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 That looks completely awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacKenzie Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Shuley, what a delicious looking cook. Gotta love Gyros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Pearson Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Looks like it was a lot of work but worth it. Very delicious looking can I have some please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony b Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Break a leg, kid, in the Challenge! Well done, including making the pita bread - Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyfish Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Bravo!! That is a fantastic cook and entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
