Cotopulo Gyros (Greek Chicken with Spices)
Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken)
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:
- Prepare ingredients: mix spices in the small bowl, wash chicken on the cold water:
Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 1 - Slice chicken breasts into stripes:
Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 2 - Skin onions and slice them into half-circles:
Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 3 - Put chicken stripes, onions and all spices to the big bowl:
Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 4 - Pour olive oil:
Cotopulo Gyros (Chicken) Recipe: Step 5 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
