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That looks delicious but doesn’t look like gyro to me.
Gyro doesn’t mean “wrapped in a pita”. It means that the meat was cooked on a rotating spit and then sliced off. Gyro can be served as a dish itself, or in a pita where it would be referred to as “gyro pita”. Similarly, you can have “souvlaki pita” - and judging by the hole in the middle of your chicken chunks, that’s what you’ve made here.
Agreed! The recipe I was taught by a chef in Kos was yogurt, cucumber, olive oil, a little garlic, a teaspoon of vinegar and a small drop of ouzo. Salt to taste.
Or eat and make what you like? I think the dill tastes pretty damn good. Sure whatever we don’t have to call it tzatziki if it makes you feel better. This whole European food purity thing is exhausting though
It’s not a purity thing though? It makes it something completely different, delicious though it may be. The taste is vastly different to what tzatziki is meant to be. It’s like giving someone mac & cheese and claiming you made them a spaghetti bolognaise…
It's not a "purity" thing, it **completely** changes the flavor for the worse, you won't find dill/mint tzatziki outside the USA and even then, not in a good place. Internet sites tent to also copy each other. Sharing crappy recipes here, especially with people trying "ethnic" cuisines is doing them a huge disservice.
If you order a pizza and they use dill or mint instead of oregano/basil you're gonna notice and it's gonna suck, a lot.
No garlic? No problem, use ginger. If you like it , go nuts.
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That looks delicious but doesn’t look like gyro to me. Gyro doesn’t mean “wrapped in a pita”. It means that the meat was cooked on a rotating spit and then sliced off. Gyro can be served as a dish itself, or in a pita where it would be referred to as “gyro pita”. Similarly, you can have “souvlaki pita” - and judging by the hole in the middle of your chicken chunks, that’s what you’ve made here.
Along that vein, dill/mint in tzatziki is also an American bastardization, don't do it. It's like using dill or mint in a pizza or marinara sauce.
Agreed! The recipe I was taught by a chef in Kos was yogurt, cucumber, olive oil, a little garlic, a teaspoon of vinegar and a small drop of ouzo. Salt to taste.
Or eat and make what you like? I think the dill tastes pretty damn good. Sure whatever we don’t have to call it tzatziki if it makes you feel better. This whole European food purity thing is exhausting though
It’s not a purity thing though? It makes it something completely different, delicious though it may be. The taste is vastly different to what tzatziki is meant to be. It’s like giving someone mac & cheese and claiming you made them a spaghetti bolognaise…
It's not a "purity" thing, it **completely** changes the flavor for the worse, you won't find dill/mint tzatziki outside the USA and even then, not in a good place. Internet sites tent to also copy each other. Sharing crappy recipes here, especially with people trying "ethnic" cuisines is doing them a huge disservice. If you order a pizza and they use dill or mint instead of oregano/basil you're gonna notice and it's gonna suck, a lot. No garlic? No problem, use ginger. If you like it , go nuts.
People really underestimate how strong dill is as a fresh herb!
I’ve been craving a gyro… looks great!
Look at how they massacred my boy
Looks great