Categories: ChickenMain Dishes

Cotopulo Gyros (Greek Chicken with Spices)

Gyros is Greek meat dish (right, it can be not only chicken gyros, but also beef, pork or lamb).

To make it: marinate sliced meat, place it on a tall vertical spit, which turns in front of a source of heat and cut meat out when is ready…

Well I don’t have such vertical spit at home, so I prepare gyros in a different way.

And I like the gyros made of chicken more, so it is why that post about “Cotopulo Gyros” after all. And yes, it is spicy!

Ingredients:

  • 2 – 2.5 lb of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 1-2 onions
  • Olive oil (approx. 1 cup)
  • Salt by taste

  • Spices:
    1 tbsp of ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp of ground oregano
  • 0.5 tbsp of ground coriander seed
  • 1 tbsp of ground cumin
  • 1 tbsp ground marjoram
  • 0.5 tbsp of chili powder

How to make, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients: mix spices in the small bowl, wash chicken on the cold water:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 1
  2. Slice chicken breasts into stripes:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 2
  3. Skin onions and slice them into half-circles:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 3
  4. Put chicken stripes, onions and all spices to the big bowl:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 4
  5. Pour olive oil:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 5
  6. Mix everything, cover the bowl with a lid or plastic wrap and put it to the fridge. Keep chicken marinading in fridge for at least 12 hours:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 6
  7. After 12 hours of marinading, take bowl out of fridge. Warm up a sautéing pan till high temperature, pour chicken with onions to the pan
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 7
  8. Fry it all over till the chicken is ready (approx. 15 mins), don’t forget to stir. Salt by taste at the end:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 8
  9. Serve with your choice of the side dish, I prefer Boiled Rice:
    Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) is Ready!

    And of course Tzatziki sauce is good addition for any kind of gyros.