What is Gyro and how do you pronounce it?!

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A Gyro (euro) is roasted lamb on pita bread with feta cheese, cucumber, tomato, onion & a cucumber (tzatziki) sauce.

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Both previous answers give accurate pronunciations of the word Gyro. However Gyro is the meat that goes into the pita along with Tzatziki sauce, lettuce and tomato and sometimes hot sauce. Gyro meat can also be served on plate with same accompaniments and rice. Gyro is ground meat, usually lamb, mixed with minced onion and garlic and seasonings, usually oregano and/or rosemary, marjoram and sometimes cumin. For the home cook, it is cooked in the oven like a meatloaf. Most restaurants cook it on a horizontal spit that turns in front of a heat source. It is then thinly sliced and put in the Pita sandwich or arranged on the plate.

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Roughly sounds like yee-roh, though that's only a rough approximation. Ask someone at the restaurant to pronounce it for you.

It's a dish of meat, tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce usually served with or inside pita bread. It also delicious.

its a pita wrapped meat & vegetables, with a cucumber-yogurt sauce (tzatziki)

its pronounced year-oh

Gyro = Year-row

A gyro is a pita sandwich loaded with sliced meat, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, feta cheese and a cucumber/dill sauce called Taziki.