Easy Ground Beef Gyros are so delicious and ready in 30 minutes! Ground beef is perfectly seasoned with a greek spice blend then tucked inside of a soft pita with lots of fresh lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and red onion. Finish the gyro with homemade tzatziki sauce and feta cheese.
Gyros remind me of a greek version of tacos! Gryros and tacos both start with some type of meat then are topped with lots of fresh vegetables, a tasty sauce and a shell to hold it all together. Being that this is a Ground Beef Gyro recipe, they’re more similar than ever! Also, if you’ve ever seen how gyro meat is traditionally made then you understand why I make mine with ground beef. It makes thing a LOT simpler.
I just can’t get get over the combination of warm, seasoned beef tucked inside a soft pita with fresh vegetables and cool, flavorful tzatziki sauce. When it all comes together, the flavor is incredible!
Ingredients
1-½ pounds of ground beef
¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste
¼ teaspoon pepper, or to taste
3 teaspoons olive oil
2 cups of green or red pepper, or 1 cup of each, roughly chopped
1 small can of mild or hot RoTel diced tomatoes with chopped peppers, drained
1 cup of roughly chopped onion
4 whole pita breads, warmed and softened in the microwave
½ cup of sour cream mixed
¼ cup of blue cheese crumbles, optional
How to prepare
Step 1:
Cook the ground beef until there is no more pink. Then add the olive oil, peppers and onions to the ground beef, and saute until the onions become translucent and the peppers are softened
Step 2:
Add the RoTel tomatoes and peppers and combine and heat through. You can taste to know if the salt and pepper suit you.
Step 3:
Dampen a few paper towels with water and wrap the pita bread in them. Put them in the microwave, and warm them up till they become easily pliable.
Step 4:
On a sheet of aluminum foil, put the pita bread and add a portion, about ¼ of the ground beef, onions, peppers and tomatoes mixture generously to the warmed pita bread.
Step 5:
Roll the aluminum foil and pita bread up gyro style and add the sour cream and blue cheese as a garnish. You can do this for the remaining 3 pita breads.
Step 6:
Serve and enjoy!