How To Make Lamb Gyros At Home | Street Food Tabanca

tzatziki sauce

🥗Healthier: yogurt sauce

💰Cheaper: sour cream

Yogurt sauce is lower in calories while providing a similar tangy flavor.

lamb shoulder

🥗Healthier: chicken thighs

💰Cheaper: pork shoulder

Chicken thighs are leaner and more affordable than lamb.

Season the lamb with salt, black pepper, oregano, coriander, cumin, and cinnamon, mixing with hands.

Cover and refrigerate the seasoned lamb for 2 hours or overnight.

Puree onion and garlic in a food processor.

Add the marinated lamb to the pureed onion and garlic and blend until it forms a paste.

Shape the lamb mixture into a log on a piece of foil or use skewers to form a meat cone.

Preheat the oven to 325°F (163°C) and bake the lamb for about 1 hour.

After baking, remove the foil and increase the oven temperature to the highest setting to brown the meat.

Once browned, remove the skewers and slice the meat thinly.

Fry the sliced meat in a hot pan to make it crispy.

Warm the pita bread in a pan until pliable.

Assemble the gyro by layering lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and the crispy gyro meat on the pita, adding garlic sauce, and wrapping it up.

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