“When you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
Or more precisely: when you’ve got a new toy, you want to play. I recently aquired an air fryer, and today was the day to apply it to one of my favourite food challenges: Gyros. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy with what I can do, but there is always this feeling it could be easier, it could be better.
So: pork collar, thinly sliced into 1/4 inch slices and marinated in the Duvel Gyros marinade … and then reassembled, vacuumed for 24h and cooked SV for 4h@58oC. It yielded a brick looking like this …
Put into the Ninja air fryer at highest (“air crisp” setting) for a few minutes, roasted sides sliced off, back into the Ninja for a few minutes, sides sliced off and once more back into the Ninja - you get the idea. It yielded quite decent Gyros. Full of roasted flavor, yet tender and juicy meat ...
It served as a base for a Greek dinner …
With freshly made pita …
Greek salad …
And some lamb filets for 1/3 of the family which is not genetically primed to enjoy pork products …
Croquettes for the same part of the family, but ultimately enjoyed by all. My Ninja has two cooking zones 🤭
Yum !
Was it good ? Oh yes …
It it less work than making a skewer and running it through the rotisserie ? Yes, but by a margin …
So - no complaints 🤗
