Thanks for these tips! Im looking to try this out soon so any tidbits I can get help out

@@Kritical_Blink As a non greek who loves greek food, my tip would be to try some tirokafteri on top. It elevated my already sky high opinion of souvlaki.

A bunch of garlic in the tzatziki is not traditional, not atleast according to my grandma and most restaurants in Greece. It is a cucumber sauce, not a garlic sauce

@@thelsamar23 a bunch of garlic is only for the REAL tzatziki lovers. Sorry not sorry. Only reason not to do it is if you have a date in the next 48 hours.

A date that is more important than your date with several cloves of garlic? Pffft

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hey not a greek. no one cares

@@ironkraken7157 bro go somewhere else you little sea urchin

@@johnblades3019 ok bro. sorry bro. didnt mean to harsh your buzz bro.

@@johnblades3019 also, come up with better insults. sea urchin? really?

Yup. This is how my mum makes them. And at least in Cyprus - not sure if Greeks do it as well - you can dress them with some dried oregano herb on top - lightly just for the fragrance.

And for the even more original greek experience, fry them in sunflower seed oil, not olive oil!

You wash them until most of the starch is gone, you know when the starch is gone when you place them in a bowl of water and the water doest go cloudy, also you salt them just before you throw them into the pan of hot oil.

Oh I so have to try this now!

my yiayia shallow slow fries them in olive oil and its the greatest

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@Matty Kelly I dunno why but I remember him doing pretty patties

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Why do you immediately ask for something else after he posts? It's so rude, you're like a spoiled child

They would be creepy but flattering

@@TobyFloof Those were krabby patties

Souvlaki is love, souvlaki is life. You can't go wrong with that choice!

I've been making it because the Street Fighter Cookbook has a recipe for it

I suggest trying souvlaki with paprika sauce, its pretty common in northern Greece. Fun fact only Athenians call Souvlaki as this because souvla in greek means skewer so souvlaki should be meat thats on a stick, as in skewered. In the rest of Greece we call it "pita bread with ...." and souvlaki the skewered meat which often includes vegetables like peppers.

At home my family uses sumac, oregano, cumin, black pepper, and sesame seeds, but probs different.

@@yiorgarra I can't use sumac it gives me a nasty rash every time I tried

@@serronserron1320 then don't lol

You have to have a Greek friend.

try olive oil sweet paprika, oregano, sea salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder, let the gyros marinade in it for 12 hours. thank me later. Pork shoulder and pork belly should do the trick. Be generous with the seasoning, too.

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most overatted imo.. slowdive in general

Getting Gyros or Moussaka or other sorts of dishes that are way harder to make at home is what I love to get at my local Greek restaurant. Lamb cutlets, souvlaki, and bifteki are all great, but they really are something I could feasibly make at home. And, yes, I could make Moussaka at home as well, but when you’re cooking for one, making such a large casserole-type dish is just kind of impractical. :laugh:

Genuinely just realized that a Gyro is just souvlaki made with the rotisserie thing

I usually just prep gyro meat as a meatloaf, and then slice it.

@@puellanivis maybe do it every now and then as a special occasion. I always like to plan a day that I will spend at least half a day cooking every now and then

Including the fries? Those didn’t seem very authentic/traditional to me.

I understood that reference

If you skewer on the grill a lot just get metal skewers. No hassles and I bought 12 for less than $5.

yeah, I have never heard of red wine vinegar, it's always been lemon juice. Also, I know this isn't traditional, but I use sour cream in lieu of yogurt and absolutely love it.

I like to use mint instead of dill.

@@michaelcannon7640 I love mint, but I don't think it works in the sauce. But that's the great thing about cooking, people can make it however they like it!

@@MauiWowieOwie yes. I’m not a fan of dill, but I do like a little mint in tzatziki. You should give it a try along with a little lemon juice.

@@michaelcannon7640 I have tried it, I don't like it. I always put lemon juice in my sauce though.

Pitta is not Greek though.

@@Lilah1848 it's Mediterranean and from Asia Minor, which absolutely includes Greece

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@@Lilah1848 ...pitta is a Greek word....all the Mediterranean countries have similar breads

I agree with you 100%, i prefer tzatsiki without dill aswell.

Enjoy our gorgeous country!

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Try some fresh minced dill with the tzatziki. Makes all the difference, and plays well with souvlaki. Athenian showing up

Could you explain the pun? I am not very knowledgeable on Greece yet but I want to learn about it and I have no idea what the pun is

@@tacosunbirth Ok, so there is a 90's musical álbum of the genre of shoegaze called souvlaki made by slowdive. This album was received with harsh critics when it came out, but 20 years later it had a revival, around 2010. It went on to become a more famous album since then, and now it stands as one of the best shoegaze albums in history. The album was named souvlaki by the band, because they had seen a sketch on a TV series which mentioned the word souvlaki, they thought it was interesting and they chose that word. There is more information about it in the Wikipedia page, if you are interested, which has plenty of sources listed at the bottom.

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In Greece they use red wine vinegar to make tzatziki. In Cyprus lemon juice is more common. White rice vinegar is also an option

As a Turkish, neither have I seen red wine vinnegar in our cacik as well

And he didn't even show us how to make our own kitchen equipment, talk about a sell out

Not only was the souvlaki done right, the tzaziki was pretty spot on too (the red wine vinegar was a surprise, but it reads across).

He has a Baklava video I believe :)

He does have a baklava video

We own this comment section lol (btw where's your bird?)

Thx for telling me didn't know he had one now i have something more to watch

@@jswsofocus no problem 👍

Why not just make an original Greek dish? Pastitsio is just a different version of lasagna...

@@LKonstantina915 how dare you speak such blasphemy about pastitsio.

is this a mainland greek thing cause for us greek Cypriots it is blasphemy to put dill in tzatziki

@@costatubhd958 yeah i found the dill a little weird too

@@LKonstantina915 i just mentioned it because it was one of my favourite foods when I was younger, I'd love to see him make all sorts of Greek cuisine.

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Cypriot souvlaki has a special place in my heart. But souvla reigns supreme.

Dill is essential. I like mint, but it has no place in tzatiki.

Many Greeks don’t put dill in Tzatziki, and it is a regional variation that many Greek Cypriots make which puts mint. So please don’t call it horrifying just because it is not the particular version you are personally accustomed to. They are still valid versions depending on what kind of Greek you are

i guess he is going for the Athenian terminology where souvlaki is the whole package. Also no-one calls this gyro because it doesn't have gyro in it.

@@TheFreakingSanic That's true, I was more referring to the greater debate as a joke. Obviously the pita has souvlaki in it.

this would be called kalamaki in athens, whereas grabbing souvlaki would be the general term.

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ive had them on the side. still the way he made them in the olive oil, but never had them actually ON the pita with everything else. he's giving me ideas tho for my next souvlaki experience

Everyone I know would call this souvlaki, or maybe to be more precise souvlaki me pita or souvlaki tilikta. Gyros is for the gyros shaved meat on the rotator. I’ve never seen lamb in a pita souvlaki style like this

You should look up more european recipe as those tend to have less chili in them. From what I understand, they're really popular in north and south america but here in europe you find them in few recipe.

@@iomar90 I live in the UK and honestly everything has chili in it. I tend to stick to Mediterranean or Japanese style foods just because they tend to have a lot of flavour but not heat. Adding even the smallest bit of chili to anything just destroys any flavour that might be there and replaces it with pain, I don't understand the point. But I was more commenting on how a lot of cooking vids on KZfaq tend to rely on chili as a universal way to "easily upgrade" basics, and that's what gets frustrating.

Adding fries is a pretty common thing (particularly in Greece), probably not totally ubiquitous, but common enough that most people agree it's usually added

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It was run by this old couple, and thenwife will make deserts for her large family and bring leftovers to the resteraunt to hand out to her favorite customers. She makes amazing orange cake and baklava. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Breakfast?!