Crock Pot Style Gyros II
Ok, after the Gyros I recipe, I figured out how to say this, is it "Year O". This does sound good as well and is just a variant. This is not traditional by any means as lamb is not used, but you are free to use that if you wish. This can be pork, beef, pork and beef, chicken, chicken and beef, chicken and pork. The original recipe stated lamb and turkey, lamb and turkey is costly but feel free to use that if you wish. Beef will be costly, chicken the least costly. This makes a smaller amount than the Gyros I recipe.
Ingredients
Meat
- 250 grams ground beef, OR minced pork
- 250 grams ground chicken, OR just use 500 grams of ground chicken
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 cup onion, sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- juice from 1 lemon
Sauce
- 1 cucumber, small, peeled, seeded, and chopped
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 2 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
- juice from 1 lemon
To serve
- Pita bread, OR corn or flour tortillas
- lettuce, shredded
- tomatoes, optional, chopped
- Feta cheese, optional, crumbled
- olives, optional
Instructions
- Slice the onion and the mince the garlic, place in the bottom of your slow cooker. In a bowl mix the 2 types of meat (or just chicken) with the oregano and paprika.
- Form the meat into a meatloaf and place on top of the onions in the slow cooker. Cook, covered, on Low setting for 3 to 4 hours or High setting for 2 hours. Use of a meat thermometer would be good to check the internal temp.
- While the slow cooker is started, prepare your sauce. Just mix the sauce ingredients together in a small bowl, cover and refrigerate until the meat is done.
- When the meat is done, carefully lift this out of the pot and place on a cutting board and let it rest for about 5 minutes. Slice thinly and serve in tortillas (or pita bread) with the sauce and the desired optional fixings. Enjoy.
Notes
Ground beef will run about 50 Baht (that is a guess since I do not have that here), minced pork would be about 30 Baht/250 grams, and chicken about 20 Baht/250 grams (another guess). The costly item is the flour tortillas, store bought is about 230 Baht for a pack of 10 (I need to learn how to make these!) Using the beef price and chicken and the tortillas, and figuring 4 servings and roughly half the tortillas, this is about $1.40 per serving, it goes down with pork, and chicken, and if using chicken only (which sounds really good) this would be under $1 per serving.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
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