I picked up a couple of pounds of ground lamb at the farmer's market this week and couldn't wait to make gyro meat for Greek salads. Unfortunately, when I went in the fridge to get the lettuce, it was rotten already. :( I didn't like the idea of just eating plain gyro with tzatziki either, so I decided to whip up something that I hoped would come out like a flexible flatbread. It worked! I'm not sure what to call these, they can be anything from a thick flatbread to a thin tortilla or crepe depending on how much liquid you use. I made ours medium thickness, a little thicker than a tortilla but still foldable so that they would work for gyros.
Primal Flatbread/Tortillas
1 cup tapioca flour/starch
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1 jumbo egg (1 regular plus 1 yolk would probably work)
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4-1/2 cup milk of choice
Butter/ghee/bacon grease for greasing pan
Whisk together dry ingredients and cheese, and in a separate bowl whisk together wet, starting with 1/4 cup milk. Combine together, batter should be pourable (like pancake batter), add more milk to thin the batter if you want thinner tortillas/crepes. Preheat cast iron or other non-stick frying pan to medium heat and grease, pour in batter, and flip when the edges get dry and you see bubbles in the batter. Re-grease pan as needed (just as you would with pancakes). This recipe is a small batch, it made 4 flatbreads.
If you're interested, this is the absolute best recipe for gyro meat ever. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/traditional-gyro-meat/ I actually baked the gyro loaf in my new Instant Pot and it worked quite well! I put the meat into a 2qt. round glass baking dish, put a cup of water into the pot, and used the metal rack with handles to lower it in. Pushed the meat/stew button, bumped it up to an hour cooking time, and wha-la! Then I just sliced it thinly and threw it in the frying pan (already greased from making flatbreads) to crisp it up. No photos because we inhaled it!
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