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Lamb Gyros

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My niece absolutely swore she wouldn’t eat lamb. Ever.

These lemon-ey, garlic-ey, rosemary-and-oregano-spiced-right gyros got her to re-consider.

PSA: Mix needs to sit least 15 minutes and ideally overnight.
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Ingredients

1 pound ground lamb
4-5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
Juice of one lemon
2-3T oregano
1-2T rosemary
½ of a red onion, finely chopped
Hawaiian salt and black pepper to taste

1-2T olive oil
Yogurt sauce
​1 carton plain yogurt
½  cucumber, seeded and finely diced

Assembly
Pita bread, pockets or flats, even flour tortillas work
Lettuce, tomatoes chopped
The other half of the cucumber, thinly sliced
Feta cheese

What To Do

Mix lamb, garlic, lemon juice, oregano, rosemary and chopped red onion together in a glass bowl. Let it sit at least 15 minutes, and overnight in the fridge if possible. 

In the 15 minutes that the lamb mixture is sitting, mix cucumbers and yogurt together in a small bowl.  

Set stove to medium high and drizzle olive oil into a large frying pan. Dump spiced lamb in, and flatten out over the entire surface of the pan. Saute ground lamb mixture until it is fully cooked, and then stir to reduce any excess liquid.. Add salt and pepper, if needed, to taste.
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To assemble, pile on spiced lamb, tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, and lettuce in warmed pitas. Or stack open-faced style as in the photo above. Drizzle yogurt sauce over and eat!

Notes

  • If you like a specific flavor, add more of it. Love garlic? Use 5 cloves. Most FMO recipes are flexible and more like guidelines, so that you can decide what works for your ohana's palate.
  • The spicy and lemon/garlic are so flavorful that very little salt or pepper is needed.
  • Mixing the lamb in with lemon/garlic/spices has the added benefit of reducing "that lamb smell" when cooking.
  • 1 small yellow onion, or 2-3 shallots can be substituted for ½ red onion.
  • This is one of the rare cases where I do not recommend swapping another ground meat for lamb.

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