Beef Gyros

Beef Gyros is a Greek dish made out of roasted beef cooked on a vertical spit wrapped in a flat bread together with vegetables, spices and different types of sauces.

Gyros is a Greek dish made out of roasted meat cooked on a vertical spit wrapped in a flat bread together with vegetables, spices and different types of sauces. This dish is Greeks own version of fast food as it can be seen almost anywhere in Greece like hamburgers in America, having said that sometimes it is also offered with French fries on the side.

The name gyro came from a Greek word that means “turn”, which is the cooking method used on the vertical spit grilling of meats. It is said that this dish like the Middle Eastern shawarma and Mexican tacos al pastor was derived from the Turkish doner kebab which was first created in Bursa during the 19th century. Gyros then in Greece believed to have been brought over by “Giorgos” in Thessaloniki in 1900.

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Beef Gyros

  • Author: Raymund
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Cook Time: 3 hours 30 mins
  • Total Time: 3 hours 45 mins
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: Greek

Description

Beef Gyros is a Greek dish made out of roasted beef cooked on a vertical spit wrapped in a flat bread together with vegetables, spices and different types of sauces.


Ingredients

Scale

Greek Style Flat Bread

  • 1 kg roasting beef (pick the ones with lots of marbling)
  • 1 head iceberg lettuce, chopped
  • 3 medium tomatoes, sliced
  • 4 stalks parsley, chopped
  • 3 large onions, 2 quartered and 1 sliced
  • aioli
  • tzatziki
  • olive oil

Spice Mix

  • 2 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp paprika
  • 1/2 tbsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tbsp dried parsley,
  • 6 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tbsp dried oregano
  • 1/4 cup olive oil

Instructions

  1. Combine all spice mix ingredients together in a bowl then pour it over the roasting beef. Let it marinate for at least 6 hours.
  2. Preheat oven at 190C, rest the beef rump in room temperature for an hour before cooking.
  3. Place beef on an oven rack with the fatty side up then place quartered onions on the top of the roast.
  4. Roast for 30 minutes at 190C then lower the heat to 100C and cook for 3 hours.
  5. Carve the roast into flakes. Then set aside.
  6. Now to prepare each flat bread by heating it up in a non-stick pan.
  7. Spread tzatziki and 2 aioli in the middle part of the flat bread according to your liking.
  8. Add carved meat, chopped lettuce, sliced tomatoes, sliced onions and chopped parsley.
  9. Roll the wraps, then serve.

 

 

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16 Responses

  1. Oh It’s been a long time since I had one of these. There were many greek kids at my school and most of the families owned kebab shops, we often queued up straight from school for our gyros.

  2. Wraps are always so tasty.
    🙂 Mandy

  3. These are my preferred on-the-go food. It’s a shame a lot of the street stall shacks selling these here in Manila have already closed down. Those were the best merienda places of my misspent high school youth 😛

    – Ray
    for
    Lynne-Enroute

  4. Oh la la! Very nice.

  5. In addition, inventive use of the mouse rug 🙂 I love it!

  6. Karen says:

    Such a tasty sandwich…nice job.

  7. Michelle says:

    Those are the best looking gyros I’ve ever seen.

  8. I just want to take huge bites of these delicious gyros…They look to die for!

  9. mjskit says:

    What a perfect gyros!! This is something that I always go out and get because I always thought it would be too hard to make the meat filling. Thanks for showing that it’s not all that hard!

  10. I am one Shawarma-lover! You just made me crave for one with this gyros!

  11. Kristy says:

    Mike would love me to make this! He’s always wanting to go out for gyros. 🙂

  12. Kristy says:

    Mike would love me to make this! He’s always wanting to go out for gyros. 🙂

  13. YUM these look like a Greek version of a Lebanese kebab.

  14. Shirley says:

    I love gyros! They’re served at a lot of diners in New York. I usually order chicken or lamb, but beef sounds great too.

  15. i get to try turkish döner here and yum yum.. it is like shawarma alright.. and like gyros too for sure..

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