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Of course this isn’t authentic chicken gyros. Usually authentic gyros is made from skewering heavily seasoned meat (often chicken or lamb, sometimes pork) and cooking it slowly on a rotisserie (gyro actually translates to rotation).
This is my ultra easy version - to get that juicy, crispy, spiced meat in super quick time. A way to get those beautiful Greek-inspired flavours to give you all of those holiday feels, without having to buy a rotisserie machine.
👩🍳PRO TIP Use a small, shallow roasting tin (<– affiliate link) for grilling. Mine is a 19.5cm x 26.5cm x 2cm Prestige tin. If you’re in the UK the link will take you to the tin I use. If you’re outside of the UK, it should take you to a similar sized tin.Using a smaller tin keeps the stock/juices together with the chicken, rather than letting them run out all over a larger tray - where they’d evaporate (meaning dry chicken!).
The chicken is tossed together with oil , garlic, oregano, paprika, salt, pepper, lemon juice, red wine vinegar and a little honey. The honey may seem like a slightly unusual addition, but it’s there to help create that glaze and slight sticky-sweetness you would get if you were slow-roasting the meat (as you would for traditional gyros).
We then grill (broil if you’re in the US) the chicken on a tray to get some lovely crispy bits. After a few minutes, we add some stock (so we’re keeping the meat juicy), toss together and grill again, and then we repeat a final time.Altogether you’ll be grilling for about 9 or 10 minutes and will turn the chicken a couple of times during that period.
The result is golden, juicy chicken that looks like this:
Slather that tzatziki on, then roll up and serve. You can secure the ends with some foil or wrap them in baking parchment if you like.
I’ve also been know to serve them with some homemade oven chips too 🙂
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