Homemade Gyros
By: Anonymous
Published: Friday, February 12, 2010 - 2:09pm

Ingredients




cup Dry red wine
2 tablespoons Olive oil or veg. oil
2 teaspoons Minced garlic
teaspoon Dried oregano, crushed
teaspoon Salt
ds Pepper
1 pound Flank steak
1 tablespoon Butter or margarine
4 Pitas
3 cups Chopped lettuce
1 cup Peeled, seeded, diced
Tomato
1 cup Peeled, seeded diced
Cucumber
1 cup Plain yogurt

Preparation

1 Combine wine, oil, garlic and oregano, salt, and pepper. Cut steak into strips, 2" long by 1/4" wide,or as thin as possible. Pour wine marinade over beef strips, and let stand for 1 hour at room temp. 2 Drain meat strips and cook in two batches, in hot butter, stirring, for 2 to 3mins, or until brown on all sides. Serve meat in a chafing dish or a hot tray to keep warm. Open one end of pita to make pocket. 3 Set out dishes of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and yogurt. Allow each person to fill his own pita. The restaurant type gyros are made of compressed meat and roasted on a vertical skewer. (meat consists of various cuts of beef that are chopped, minced or ground and then compressed into large cylindrical shape) 4 This recipe is a goodsubstitute for the the commercial type. 5 Note: Commercial yogurt canbe thickened by placing a double layer of paper towels directly over the top of yogurt to absorb the liquid. Refrigerate overnight and remove paper. 6 * OLX 2.1 TD* Tremp filok santi asker - oops, what universe were we in? 7 BOBBI ZEE Refer#: NONE To: PAT STOCKETT Recvd: NO Subj: Irish Potato Cakes Conf: (4617) COOKING