If you love the Greek gyros you might want to try this insanely delicious gyro burger! It’s topped with all my favorite things. The only challenge? Eating it!

Gyro burger

Whenever I visit Greece – and I try to do that as often as I can – one of the dishes I am guaranteed to eat is gyros. Now if you order gyros in Greece you’ll either get a plate or it gets served in a pita bread. Inside you’ll find roasted meat, usually pork or chicken, a yogurt based sauce (tzatziki) The meat itself is roasted on a vertical rotisserie and then sliced off.

Obviously doing that at home is a no go, so I decided I was going to use pulled pork instead and dry roast that in the pan. The end result was totally delicious so mission accomplished.

What goes into the gyro burger?

Now this is a pretty hefty Greek gyro burger. It’s not a light one by any means of the word and it’s not a quick proces either if you still need to make the pulled pork. That said; you could get ready made pulled pork and decrease the time needed that way.

For the rest you’re going to need the following:

hamburger buns
burger patty (either homemade or good quality store-bought)
bacon
Greek yogurt
cucumber
garlic
red onion
lettuce

If you break it all down, it is actually not too bad. But as you can probably see in the photos, the end result is pretty insane. But so so good! It’s a unique burger for sure!

Assembling the burgers

If you’re making your own burger patties you start by taking a large bowl and adding the ground beef or other ground meat. A nice touch would be to add a bit of feta cheese into the burgers, but that’s totally optional. Mix the ground beef with seasoning and form into patties. That’s one part done.

Then for the pulled pork, you take a large skillet and you heat it on medium heat with some olive oil. Bake the pulled pork until it is crispy on the edges.

You can roast the hamburger bun you’re using. That helps to keep the burgers intact and it won’t get soggy easily. So I always toast the buns.

Next you need to make the homemade tzatziki sauce which is pretty easy to make. Set aside until ready to use. Fry the eggs and set your tomato slices and onion ready for using as well.

Building the greek burger

Now it’s time to build these delicious burgers. I start with a bit of the yogurt sauce. Add some lettuce on top of the yogurt. Add your burger patties on top. Then onion rings, bacon, egg, pulled pork and you finish with more tzatziki. For a little Greek flare you could also add some crumbled feta on top, but that might be too salty for the end result.

Let’s face it; this is not traditional greek food but it kind of has all the makings of a greek gyro dish or in this case a greek gyro burger.

Additions and variations

Now I’m not sure you’d want any more additions to this burger as it is already insanely stacked and will be hard to eat if you have only two hands. That said you could change the beef burger into a lamb burger if you like lamb meat (I’m not a big fan)

gyro burger topped with pulled pork, beef patty and tzatztiki sauce

Serving the burger might be a good idea to add a delicious and fresh greek salad to it. You need something fresh after this meat based burger. Or serve with some crispy french fries.

Can I make the gyro burger on the barbecue?

Well you can make parts of this one the barbecue. You can definitely finish the burgers on the barbecue and you can also make pulled pork on the barbecue if you want.

Can I make the burgers in advance?

You can make most of the components of the gyro burger in advance. Assembling should be done at the last minute. But you can make the patties, the sauce and the pulled pork in advance for sure.

Do I need all the pulled pork?

No definitely not! While the total of the 1 kg that you use for making the pulled pork will be less, you’ll probably need about half on top of the burgers.

Can I make the gyro burger on the barbecue?