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Slow Cooker Beef Gyros

Slow Cooker Beef Gyros Recipe: Tender pieces of beef with soft onions, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, creamy cucumber yogurt sauce all wrapped up in soft, melt in your mouth pita bread. And the best part of slow cooker beef gyros is that the beef is made in the slow cooker freeing up your time and making your kitchen smell good all day long. 

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Slow Cooker Beef Gyros Recipe: Tender pieces of beef with soft onions, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, creamy cucumber yogurt sauce all wrapped up in soft, melt in your mouth pita bread. And the best part of this recipe is that the beef is made in the slow cooker freeing up your time and making your kitchen smell good all day long.

Slow Cooker Summer

Yes, I know I’ve made chicken gyros and pork gyros and now I’ve made slow cooker beef gyros (this is an updated recipe from 2012). They are all so tasty and a perfect slow cooker summer dinner (have you seen my 100 Days of Slow Cooker Summer E-Book yet?). Basically, I’m in love with any type of food that you wrap up in soft pita bread with a creamy sauce. I can’t emphasize enough how great the slow cooker is in the summer. NO HEAT! The slow cooker doesn’t heat up your kitchen. We are at over 100 degrees here today so that is sooooo appreciated.

Slow Cooker Beef Gyros on TV

I was able to cook slow cooker beef gyros on TV this morning. If you’d like to view the segment you can below:

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Slow Cooker Beef Gyros Recipe: Tender pieces of beef with soft onions, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, creamy cucumber yogurt sauce all wrapped up in soft, melt in your mouth pita bread. And the best part of this recipe is that the beef is made in the slow cooker freeing up your time and making your kitchen smell good all day long.

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Slow cooker beef gyros recipe

Recipe for Slow Cooker (Crock Pot) Beef Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce

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  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 8 hours
  • Total Time: 8 hours 15 minutes
  • Yield: 4-6 servings
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Slow Cooker Beef Gyros Recipe: Tender pieces of beef with soft onions, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, creamy cucumber yogurt sauce all wrapped up in soft, melt in your mouth pita bread. And the best part of this recipe is that the beef is made in the slow cooker freeing up your time and making your kitchen smell good all day long.

Ingredients

For Beef:

  • 2 lbs beef stew meat or chuck roast (cut into bite size pieces or strips)
  • 1 large onion, thinly sliced
  • ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 Tbsp minced garlic
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • Warmed pita folds
  • Sliced tomatoes and lettuce, for serving

For the Tzatziki Sauce (Cucumber Yogurt Dressing)

  • 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 cup diced cucumber, seeded and shredded
  • 1 Tbsp dried dill or 2 Tbsp fresh dill
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Add beef to the slow cooker.
  2. Combine ¼ cup olive oil, garlic, oregano, salt,pepper and lemon juice in a small bowl. Pour over the meat and toss to coat, in the slow cooker. Toss in the sliced onions.
  3. Cover and cook on LOW for 6-10 hours (depending on your slow cooker) or until beef is extremely
  4. tender. (If it’s not tender, it’s not done yet).
  5. Remove lid and salt and pepper to taste. If desired, break up the meat into smaller bite-size pieces.
  6. Make the tzatziki sauce. Combine yogurt, cucumber, dill, salt and garlic in medium bowl. Stir until creamy and combined. Salt and pepper to taste.
  7. Serve beef over pita folds with Tzatziki sauce, onions, tomatoes and lettuce.

Notes

I use a 3 quart slow cooker for this recipe.

Here are some more slow cooker summer recipes from other food bloggers:
Easy Crockpot Chicken and Black Bean Taco Salad from SkinnyTaste
Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas from Barefeet in the Kitchen
Slow Cooker Asian Chicken Broccoli Bowls from Kalyn’s Kitchen
Crockpot Thai Steak Salad from The Food Charlatan
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Slow Cooker Beef Gyros Recipe: Tender pieces of beef with soft onions, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, creamy cucumber yogurt sauce all wrapped up in soft, melt in your mouth pita bread. And the best part of this recipe is that the beef is made in the slow cooker freeing up your time and making your kitchen smell good all day long.

Comments

  1. What an awesome idea! I think I will make a few up and bring them with me to my in~law's for Christmas. I'll even bring my crock pot along to make up a batch for everyone! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

  6. Hey Karen, I'm a bit of a slow cooking n00b. I was wondering if the chuck roast was cut and sliced before cooking or sliced after browning and then placed in the slow cooker.
    Any help is much appreciated, your blog is great and as a college student is an amazing resource.

  10. Hi Karen,
    Making it now…
    Question…when you say toss in sliced onions, do you mean stir them in, or place on top only?
    Smells delicious! 🙂

  11. I really love this recipe. I have made it a few times at home. Tried making it at my mom's house in her crock pot today and the beef totally burned! Not even edible! 🙁 I had it on low… Maybe a faulty crock pot?

  13. We had this for dinner tonight and it was so good! It's really easy to throw together too. This is definitely added to my go-to recipes!

  18. So I just discovered your blog today and I’m super excited. I have two young ones and I love the crock pot recipes because it is done and ready too go at the end of the day. Can you please add me to your email list. I can’t wait to try this gyro recipe!! I have a gluten allergy so I am going to try it in a lettuce wrap!

  20. Just a heads up that your recipe for Beef Burgundy keeps redirecting to this Gyros page. I can view the Beef Burgundy recipe from search results, but as soon as I try to view it on its own page it just redirect here. Both look yummy, though!