Gyro Pizza is a spin on a traditional gyro sandwich made with gyro meat, feta cheese, slivered red onions, diced cucumbers, tomatoes, tzatziki sauce all served on a pita flatbread.
Here is why this gyro pizza recipe is amazing:
- All your favorite gyro flavors served on a flatbread, making this a personal pizza.
- Great use of leftover gyro meat.
- Customize each gyro pizza for each member of your family! Add extra toppings of the ones they love and leave off the ones they don't. My husband will ALWAYS leave off the red onions.
Gyro Flatbread Ingredients Needed:
- Gyro Meat - leftover is fine. Slice it thin.
- Pita bread - I buy it in my grocery store. or I will use leftover naan bread. Not traditional but I still like it.
- Olive oil - just a bit for brushing on the pita
- Fetta - crumbled is fine but I am breaking off a large piece of a brick of fetta cheese
- Onion - red, thinly sliced
- Cucumber - seeded and chopped small
- Tomato - seeded and chopped
- Mint leaves - sliced thin
- Ttaziki Sauce - homemade is my favorite!
How to make Gyro Pizza
- Preheat the oven to 425.
- Brush olive oil on the flatbread.
- Layer on thinly sliced gyro meat, diced tomatoes, slivered red onions, and crumbled feta cheese.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the cheese takes on some color.
- Transfer the pizza to a serving tray and add diced cucumbers, diced tomatoes, dollops of tzatziki sauce, and sprinkle with mint leaves.
Frequently asked questions, answers and tips:
Definitely! This pizza is made with a pita bread but feel free to use a pre made pizza crust or other pizza dough.Making this a larger gyro pizza would make a great group appetizer.
In Greece, it is prepared most often with pork or chicken, whilst beef, chicken, and lamb are common in other countries. It is typically served wrapped or stuffed in a pita, along with ingredients such as tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce. SOURCE
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Gyro Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 slices Gyro Meat
- 1 Pita bread
- 1 ½ teaspoon Olive oil
- ¼ cup Fetta crumbled
- 2 Tablespoons Onion thinly sliced
- 2 Tablespoons Cucumber seeded, diced
- 2 Tablespoons Tomato seeded, diced
- 6 Mint leaves thinly sliced
- ¼ cup Tzatziki Sauce
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425.
- Brush olive oil on the flatbread.1 Pita bread, 1 ½ teaspoon Olive oil
- Layer on thinly sliced gyro meat, diced tomatoes, slivered red onions, and crumbled feta cheese.3 slices Gyro Meat, 2 Tablespoons Onion, 2 Tablespoons Tomato, ¼ cup Fetta
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the cheese takes on some color.
- Transfer the pizza to a serving tray and add diced cucumbers, diced tomatoes, dollops of tzatziki sauce, and spinkle with mint leaves.2 Tablespoons Cucumber, ¼ cup Tzatziki Sauce, 6 Mint leaves
Notes
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