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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:

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.

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