Gyros - Northern Greece Style
Northern Greek style; may include different spices, regional variations.
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Northern Greek style; may include different spices, regional variations.
Beef gyros; less common in Greece than pork or chicken.
Mixed gyros; combination of pork and chicken from the spit.
Chicken gyros; increasingly popular, lighter option. Chicken breast and thigh seasoned and stacked on spit.
Hours before the spit, chicken thigh goes into yogurt, lemon, and oregano, a soak that does chemistry. Shaved hot into oiled griddled pita with tzatziki, tomato, onion, and fries.
Lemon-oregano chicken gyros; common flavor profile.
Island gyros; may feature local ingredients, sometimes lamb.
Pork gyros; the most traditional and popular in Greece. Pork shoulder/leg seasoned with oregano, thyme, garlic, paprika, cumin, stacked o...
Traditional pork seasoning; oregano, thyme, rosemary, garlic, paprika, cumin, black pepper, olive oil, lemon juice.
The turning spit was built in a world that could never cook it from pig. Greece took the machine intact and loaded it with pork, then scrubbed the Turkish name off and called it gýros.
Pork gyros plate; served on plate with pita, fries, salad, tzatziki on the side.
Pork gyros with tzatziki; essential sauce.
Pork gyros with fries inside; fries in the pita is standard Greek style.
Pork gyros without onion.
Pork gyros with everything; all toppings included.
The Athenian gyros: in the capital the spit-roasted wrap is ordered as 'gyros' plainly, built on a slightly smaller oiled pita that forces every filling to be portioned down.
Lamb gyros; traditional but less common due to cost. More common in diaspora.
Canadian-Greek variations; especially Montreal, Toronto.