August 27, 2020

Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce

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Easy and quick flank Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce bursting with hearty flavors. This recipe includes super juicy and flavorful beef steaks served for best homemade gyros. Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce is so juicy and tender that it will melt in your mouth. The Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce adds bold savory flavor with just hint of heat.

TZATZIKI is a Argentinian sauce or marinade that turns everything into gold. Its flavor is heavenly good. Its garlic, tangy and fresh flavor is just because of fresh parsley. It brightens up the steaks flavor just like sprinkle of lemon or salt enhances the flavor of any dish.

This Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce is so easy to prepare that all you need is to mix up vinegar dressing, oil and parsley together and your sauce is ready to serve. Mix oil and vegetable oil together and than add spices and herbs in it according to you taste and flavor.

Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce is best to prepare in lunch as well as in dinner. It is a perfect meal and can be serve with any sides like potato wedges and mashed potatoes along with stuff vegetables. Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce can be made mouthwatering by just adding 4 things– plenty of fresh vegetables, wine vinegar, garlic cloves and a touch of spices.

How To Cook Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce

Take a airtight plastic bag, Place steaks, olive oil, salt, black pepper, oregano, garlic and lemon juice in it. Shake the bag to mix the ingredients well with the steaks. Remove the air from the plastic bag and seal the bag. refrigerate it for about 4-8 hours. Cut the cucumber into thin slices and place these slices on paper towel. Sprinkle salt generously over the cucumber slices and set them aside for 5 minutes. Wrap the cucumber slices in papers towel and let the remaining liquid moves out. Transfer these drained cucumber slices into food processor or blender and blend them properly.

Add the remaining sauce ingredients like garlic, salt, black pepper, plain yogurt etc into the blender and pulse them until it becomes smooth and creamy in texture. Cover and chill it until it becomes ready to use. Preheat the grill or cast iron skillet pan to medium range heat. Use tongs to transfer the steaks from plastic bags to grill. You can use hands for transferring the steaks from plastic bag to skillet. Discard the excess marination liquid left in the plastic bag. Cook the steaks from one side for about 5-6 minutes and than cook the other side for more 5-6 minutes until it turns dark in color. The meat will turns pink from center when its cooked properly. Transfer the steaks to the cutting board with help of tongs. Allow the meat to rest for few minutes before slicing them into this grains.

Assemble gyros with lettuce, sliced onions, cucumbers and with steaks. Drizzle with tzatziki sauce. Top it with black pepper and fresh squeezed lemon. Serve immediately.

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How to Cook Steak Gyro

There is no need of marination while cooking the steaks. You just need to sprinkle some salt and some drops of olive oil on the steaks and place it on the grill an cook until it becomes tender. People love steaks seasoned with salt and some drizzle of olive oil, cook on medium rare or medium flame on grill or low cast iron skillet. You can cook steaks on your own choice. Like if you like juicy and tender steaks than cook it on medium rare and if you want some raw taste in steaks than cook it on low medium flame. You can serve Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce in different ways

Rib Eye: It is super juicy and tender due to its marbling. It is best when steaks is cook on medium range, can be cook good by maintaining the taste and tenderness.

T-Bone Steak: This includes two kinds in it , Tenderloin Filet/New York Strip Steak. If you want to cook steak on high flame than this is best option while maintaining the tenderness.

New York Strip Steaks: Buttery steaks but includes less fats than Rib eye steaks. It is best steaks if want to cook on medium rare flame maintaining the tender flavor along with it.

How Long Will TZATZIKI Sauce Lasts

TZATZIKI Sauce can be store in refrigerator for about 1-2 weeks in a right container. If you make TZATZIKI Sauce in large quantity than you can preserve this sauce in freezer by placing this sauce in ice cubes. Than transfer these cubes into plastic bag or air tight container. It will last in freezer for about 3 months. So you need not to worry if you make more sauce it can be preserve easily. TZATZIKI Sauce is use in many recipes so it will not remain in freezer for long time as it will be use before along with many recipes.

Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce

Easy and quick flank Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce bursting with hearty flavors. This recipe includes super juicy and flavorful beef steaks served for best homemade gyros. Steak Gyro With Tzatziki Cucumber Sauce is so juicy and tender that it will melt in your mouth. The Steak Gyro Recipe adds bold savory flavor with just hint of heat.

Ingredients

1 pound flank steak
1/3 cup olive oil
3 teaspoons garlic (minced Properly)
2 teaspoons dried oregano (you can use fresh oregano as well)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
juice of 1/2 lemon
4 white or wheat pitas
1/2 red onion (slice into thin pieces)
1 tomato (slice into thin pieces)
romaine lettuce

Tzatziki Sauce

1 medium cucumber, peeled and sliced
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups cold plain Greek yogurt
4 teaspoons garlic (minced Properly)
1/3 cup chopped dill (you can use fresh or frozen one, depends on availability)
1 and 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon black pepper or according to your taste

Directions

1- Take a airtight plastic bag, Place steaks, olive oil, salt, black pepper, oregano, garlic and lemon juice in it. Shake the bag to mix the ingredients well with the steaks. Remove the air from the plastic bag and seal the bag. refrigerate it for about 4-8 hours.

2- Cut the cucumber into thin slices and place these slices on paper towel. Sprinkle salt generously over the cucumber slices and set them aside for 5 minutes. Wrap the cucumber slices in papers towel and let the remaining liquid moves out. Transfer these drained cucumber slices into food processor or blender and blend them properly.

3- Add the remaining sauce ingredients like garlic, salt, black pepper, plain yogurt etc into the blender and pulse them until it becomes smooth and creamy in texture. Cover and chill it until it becomes ready to use.

4- Preheat the grill or cast iron skillet pan to medium range heat. Use tongs to transfer the steaks from plastic bags to grill. You can use hands for transferring the steaks from plastic bag to skillet. Discard the excess marination liquid left in the plastic bag. Cook the steaks from one side for about 5-6 minutes and than cook the other side for more 5-6 minutes until it turns dark in color. The meat will turns pink from center when its cooked properly.

5- Transfer the steaks to the cutting board with help of tongs. Allow the meat to rest for few minutes before slicing them into this grains.

6- Assemble gyros with lettuce, sliced onions, cucumbers and with steaks. Drizzle with tzatziki sauce. Top it with black pepper and fresh squeezed lemon. Serve immediately.

Notes/Tips

As TZATZIKI Sauce includes garlic in it that’s why it is better to use it in between 3 days due to health factors. It can be store by freezing it for long time and reuse it again.
There is no too much salt in TZATZIKI Sauce so that’s why serve this sauce with well seasoned steaks.
Normal and balsamic is too hard to use that’s why use mild vinegar.