Chicken Gyros.
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Chicken Gyros is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It's appreciated by millions daily. It's easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Gyros is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken gyros using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Gyros:
- {Take 500 g of chicken thigh fillets (deboned).
- {Prepare 1 cup (250 ml) of Greek or natural yoghurt.
- {Prepare 25 ml of lemon juice.
- {Make ready 50 ml of olive oil.
- {Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper(less if you don’t want it too spicy).
- {Make ready 1 teaspoon of ground cumin.
- {Prepare 1 teaspoon of ground coriander.
- {Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
- {Make ready 2-3 cloves of crushed garlic.
- {Prepare of Salt and pepper to taste.
- {Get 1 teaspoon of paprika.
- {Make ready of Oven tray with 1/2 large onion and wooden skewer- this is the frame that supports the chicken thighs during cooking.
Instructions to make Chicken Gyros:
- Make the marinade by combining all ingredients except chicken, onion/skewer..
- Add flattened chicken thighs - I used the palm of my hand to gently flatten so that all the pieces were about the same thickness.
- Marinade for a minimum of 2 -4 hours.
- Assemble marinated chicken thighs on the skewer - add at right angles to each other to even out the gyros stack..
- Bake in oven at 200 degrees centigrade for 1 hour 20 minutes or until cooked through. The outside will get a little burnt but don’t worry - important to check the inside is cooked..
- Remove from oven, cool slightly and then slice. Serve with salad and pita bread. A nice side dish is some yoghurt with mint (in winter I substitute a teaspoon of mint sauce from fresh mint)..
- Enjoy!.
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