Cade’s Hen Gyros

For Cade’s hen gyros, the hen is marinated in a tangy yogurt sauce loaded with garlic, lemon, contemporary 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’t get sufficient of the juicy, succulent hen and I’m simply positive we are able to discover extra makes use of for it than simply gyros. Scroll right down to see a few of my concepts.

Tips on how to Pronounce Gyros

Let’s begin with how NOT to say “gyros”…mainly don’t say it the way it appears to be like! It isn’t pronounced jai-rohs. Although I’m positive everybody would know what you have been ordering in the event you did say it that manner. The proper option to pronounce “gyros” is yee-rohs.

What’s a Greek Gyro?

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

Elements for Hen Gyros

Here’s a transient overview of the elements you will have for this gyro recipe. The measurements of every could be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of the submit.

• Hen Thighs: You need them to be boneless and skinless and hen breasts additionally work high-quality. Hen 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 hen whenever you bake it.
• Garlic: the aim for garlic is all the time so as to add taste and also you’ll need a number 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: contemporary is a should and also you’ll need the juice and zest for optimum taste
• Oregano: contemporary is certainly 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 it is a dried herb mix
• Salt: provides taste
• Smoked Paprika: provides a scrumptious smokiness to the hen
• Black Pepper: provides taste and slightly warmth
• Crushed Pink Pepper Flakes: use as a lot or as little as you need for the warmth on the hen

For the Gyros:

• Small Campari Tomatoes: You might use kind of tomato you need however I like the dimensions and taste of the campari tomatoes!
• Pink 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 respectable one!
• Feta: provides a daring salty taste to the gyro however is optionally available in the event you aren’t a feta fan
• Cucumber: completely optionally available however it provides an ideal crunch and freshness to the sandwich
• Lettuce: we like to make use of inexperienced leaf

Tips on how to Make This Gyros Recipe

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

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

Prepare dinner Hen: As soon as the hen has marinated, bake the hen in a bread pan. Baking it in a good dish, retains the hen moist. See recipe card beneath for particulars.

• PRO TIP: It’s also possible to grill the hen! Prepare dinner them as entire 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 possibly can completely customise your personal gyro! Sometimes a gyro is served with lettuce, tomato, crimson onion and tzatziki sauce. We love so as to add feta, cucumbers and a few contemporary parsley.

• Extra toppings: If you wish to add extra toppings or swap out among the typical toppings, you could possibly attempt kalamata olives, banana peppers, crimson bell peppers, artichoke hearts or avocados.

Suggestions for the Finest Hen Gyros

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

Don’t overcook the hen! Hen can get a foul wrap for all the time being dry, so let it marinade for a minimum of 2 hours and don’t let it bake too lengthy within the oven (or on the grill).

Use contemporary elements within the yogurt marinade, within the tzatziki sauce and for the toppings.

Let every particular person customise their very own gyro. I wish 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

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

What to Serve with Gyros

With the hen, the pita and all of the contemporary 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 scorching 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 hen shops and freezes extraordinarily properly. Retailer it individually in an hermetic container within the fridge. It can hold for as much as 5 days. NOTE: All of the elements for gyros ought to be saved individually and never as an assembled gyro. The pita will get soggy and it received’t maintain up properly.

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

If in case you have hen you wish to freeze, let it cool fully after which add it to a freezer ziploc bag. Lay it flat so it shops properly. It can hold 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 hen gyros are taking their spot in our common dinner menu rotation and they’re right here to remain! So flavorful! So contemporary and wholesome!

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