Ingredients

2 cups soy curl strips (not yet rehydrated)
1 vegan bullion cube (ideally beef flavor, but chicken flavor will work too)
1 heaping teaspoon instant coffee powder or crystals (decaf or regular)
1/4 medium or large onion
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 heaping teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon rosemary
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper

Olive oil spray

Garnish

Onion
Lettuce
Tomato
Vegan feta cheese (we use Follow Your Heart)
Sauce

Directions

Put the soy curls in a heat-proof bowl or Pyrex measuring cup. Put the bullion cube and coffee in a different heat-proof measuring cup, cover with boiling water, and stir to dissolve. Once the bullion and coffee are dissolved pour them over the soy curls, and then add more hot water until the soy curls are just barely covered. Let stand for at least 15 minutes, although an hour or more is ideal.

Put the onion, garlic, olive oil, herbs, salt, and pepper into a food processor and process until it is as smooth as you can get it, stopping to scrape the mixture from the sides of the bowl and putting it back down near the blades a few times. Depending on your food processor, and its size and depth, you may be able to get the mixture really smooth, but it’s ok if it’s on the grainier side (sort of like a tapenade). Just get it as smooth as you can.

Drain the soy curls and use paper towels or a clean kitchen towel to squeeze out most of the moisture.

Place the soy curls in a gallon Ziploc-type bag, and scrape all of the mixture from the food processor into the bag with the soy curls. Squeeze the air out of the bag and zip it up tight. Now knead and massage the mixture all throughout the soy curls so that they are all coated. Set aside for at least an hour, the longer the better. You can also put it in the fridge overnight.

When you are ready to cook and serve your gyros, preheat your oven to 375°.

While your oven is heating line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and spray the parchment paper with olive oil spray. Now open the zipper bag, and dump the soy curls onto the baking sheet. Separate the soy curls so that none of them are touching. Now spray the soy curls with the olive oil spray.

Put the pan in the oven and bake at 375° for about 20 minutes, until the soy curls start to brown, and your kitchen starts to smell amazing.

Remove the soy curls from the oven, place on an uncut pita, and top with your garnishings. You will note in our picture that we wrapped one end of our gyro with a bit of parchment paper, just like gyro restaurants do. It turns out that the reason they do that isn’t just to keep your hands clean, but to keep the pita bread from flopping open. :~)

Enjoy!

P.S. If you enjoy this soy curl recipe you’ll probably also enjoy our Best Vegan Philly Cheesesteak recipe, as well as some of our other soy curl recipes.