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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Recipe for Slow Cooker (Crock Pot) Beef Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Yield: 4-6 servings 1x
Description
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
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 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
- Add beef to the slow cooker.
- 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.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6-10 hours (depending on your slow cooker) or until beef is extremely
- tender. (If it’s not tender, it’s not done yet).
- Remove lid and salt and pepper to taste. If desired, break up the meat into smaller bite-size pieces.
- Make the tzatziki sauce. Combine yogurt, cucumber, dill, salt and garlic in medium bowl. Stir until creamy and combined. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve beef over pita folds with Tzatziki sauce, onions, tomatoes and lettuce.
Notes
I use a 3 quart slow cooker for this recipe.

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!
Thanks for letting me know! I will have it fixed.
Excited to try this tomorrow. Do you brown the meat before you add it to the crock pot? Thank you.
you can, but I don’t!
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!
Awesome!! Yes I will add you to the list:)
I would like to subscribe to this Web page, how can I do that
Would you like to get all my posts by email? I can add you to my email list if you’d like? Or do you need the RSS feed?
Could you please add me to receive your recipes
Sure thing Nikki!
Love this recipe!!! Kids lick their plates. Trying it with chicken tonight!!! I did marinade it a little bit. Great make ahead dinner too.
I'm interested to see how you like it with the chicken! Let me know how it turns out 🙂
yeppers!
Can you do this on high for half the time?
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!
hooray! glad you liked it. I really like it too 🙂
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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?
oh that is so sad. I'm sorry. Yes, I would maybe get her a new crockpot. Some of them cook so very hot! Each cooks differently, for sure.
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! 🙂
It really doesn't matter! Either way, it will work out fine.
Hooray Erica!!!! Glad you liked it!
This was AMAZING!!!! I was seriously blown away! A+
Anonymous, yes it's cut beforehand! Welcome! Hope you have lots of slow cooking success 🙂
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.
This was easy to make and delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
I know, right? I love gyros too!! Thanks so much, Ben.
Keep up the good work 🙂
Hi Karen,
The moment I saw Gyro, that was it for me!!! Ha Ha Ha ! But I wanted to say thank you as well for all the quality recipes! And I'll definitely spread the word!
Ben from http://www.crockpotking.com
is the cucumber diced or shredded? I'm making htis tonight. it smells YUMMY
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!