Woohoo it is fatty throwdown time so here is mine.
This is my Gyro on a stick fatty. The Idea was to take a relatively simple thing to make like a Gyro and make it waaaaaay more complicated.
Anyway here is how I did it.
First I made some traditional Gyro meat.
Ground lamb
Onion (liquified in a food processor and wrang through a tea towel to get rid of excess moisture)
Ground marjorom
Ground rosemary
Salt
Pepper
Minced fresh garlic
Put all ingredients into a food processor until it is a smooth paste.
I put that mixture into a ziploc bag and flattened. On to the other ingredients.
1 lamb rack
2 onions (thinly sliced and sweated until very soft)
Pita bread
On the package the lamb says that it is Frenched, I disagreed and did it properly.
Here it is out of the package.
And here it is Frenched, fat cap removed, and trimmed. I used kitchen twine to tie around each bone and pull off all of the tissues so that the bones would be very clean.
Next I very carefully started to cut and roll out the meat from the bone. A razor sharp knife is crucial.
Next I pounded it out thin and evenly under some plastic wrap.
All pounded out and ready to stuff.
I put the Gyro meat on the bottom, the lamb rack next, then the pita and grilled onions. Forgot to take a couple pictures during those steps.
Here it is rolled up and sealed.
Wrapped up and ready for the chill.
Time to make the Tzatziki sauce!
Plain yogurt (put in a strainer and drained for 1 hour in the fridge)
1 cucumber (peeled, seeded, finely chopped and wrang through a tea towel)
Salt
Minced fresh garlic
Extra virgin olive oil
Red wine vinegar
Fresh mint
Mix all ingredients and chill.
I smoked the fatty with cherry wood at 225 degrees for 2 and a half hours. Here it is out of the smoker.
Side view.
And finally, sliced up on the plate with sauce on the side and a salad.
Close up. You could actually pick it up and eat it off of the bone.
The boy approved mightily.
In conclusion it was fantastic. I probably wont do it again, but I had fun making it and that was what it was all about.
Thanks for checking out my fatty!
This is my Gyro on a stick fatty. The Idea was to take a relatively simple thing to make like a Gyro and make it waaaaaay more complicated.
Anyway here is how I did it.
First I made some traditional Gyro meat.
Ground lamb
Onion (liquified in a food processor and wrang through a tea towel to get rid of excess moisture)
Ground marjorom
Ground rosemary
Salt
Pepper
Minced fresh garlic
Put all ingredients into a food processor until it is a smooth paste.
I put that mixture into a ziploc bag and flattened. On to the other ingredients.
1 lamb rack
2 onions (thinly sliced and sweated until very soft)
Pita bread
On the package the lamb says that it is Frenched, I disagreed and did it properly.
Here it is out of the package.
And here it is Frenched, fat cap removed, and trimmed. I used kitchen twine to tie around each bone and pull off all of the tissues so that the bones would be very clean.
Next I very carefully started to cut and roll out the meat from the bone. A razor sharp knife is crucial.
Next I pounded it out thin and evenly under some plastic wrap.
All pounded out and ready to stuff.
I put the Gyro meat on the bottom, the lamb rack next, then the pita and grilled onions. Forgot to take a couple pictures during those steps.
Here it is rolled up and sealed.
Wrapped up and ready for the chill.
Time to make the Tzatziki sauce!
Plain yogurt (put in a strainer and drained for 1 hour in the fridge)
1 cucumber (peeled, seeded, finely chopped and wrang through a tea towel)
Salt
Minced fresh garlic
Extra virgin olive oil
Red wine vinegar
Fresh mint
Mix all ingredients and chill.
I smoked the fatty with cherry wood at 225 degrees for 2 and a half hours. Here it is out of the smoker.
Side view.
And finally, sliced up on the plate with sauce on the side and a salad.
Close up. You could actually pick it up and eat it off of the bone.
The boy approved mightily.
In conclusion it was fantastic. I probably wont do it again, but I had fun making it and that was what it was all about.
Thanks for checking out my fatty!
