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Home-Style Doner Kebab

Name: Home-Style Doner Kebab
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 250g Thinly sliced beef; 4 Pita bread; 3 tbsp Plain yogurt; 1 clove Garlic; 1 tsp Paprika; 1/2 tsp Ground cumin; To taste Lettuce, tomato, and onion; 1 tbsp Olive oil

Main Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Spiced, seared meat wrapped in flatbread with vegetables and yogurt sauce — Turkey's national fast food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

The name comes from "döner," meaning to rotate, referring to the vertical rotisserie used to cook the meat — a technique now famous worldwide as the basis for kebab shops everywhere. At home, thin-sliced meat is simply pan-seared and stuffed into flatbread with vegetables and yogurt sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: A street corner in Istanbul, the smell of a doner grill drifting through the air. People on their way home from work pause for a wrap stuffed with shaved meat — an everyday scene.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Thinly sliced beef 250g
Pita bread 4
Plain yogurt 3 tbsp
Garlic 1 clove
Paprika 1 tsp
Ground cumin 1/2 tsp
Lettuce, tomato, and onion To taste
Olive oil 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toss the meat with paprika, cumin, garlic, and olive oil; let sit for 15 minutes.
Mix a little garlic into the yogurt to make the sauce.
Sear the meat over high heat in a pan until browned.
Warm the pita bread.
Top the bread with vegetables and meat.
Drizzle with yogurt sauce, fold up, and serve.

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