Doner Kebab Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients Needed
- 400g/14oz beef mince 18-20% fat
- 120g/4oz lamb mince 15% fat
- 1 onion, grated
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 3 tablespoons/45g/1.4oz Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2.5 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons ground cumin seeds
- 1.5 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1.5 teaspoons sweet paprika
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
To Serve
- 8 leaves iceberg lettuce, shredded
- 4 Pita bread or mountain bread
- 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced, sprinkled with 1/4 teaspoon sumac
- 2 sliced tomatoes
- 1 sliced Lebanese cucumber
- BBQ sauce, tomato sauce, garlic sauce and mayonnaise
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 BLEND - Place the onion (1 onion) and garlic (3 garlic cloves) in a large food processor and blitz until fine (Thermomix 10 seconds, speed #5, scrape down halfway). Add the beef mince (400g/14oz), lamb mince (120g/4oz), Greek yogurt (3 tablespoons/45g/1.4oz), tomato paste (1 tablespoon), salt (2.5 teaspoons), sugar (1 teaspoon), cumin (1.5 teaspoons), coriander (1.5 teaspoons), sweet paprika (1.5 teaspoons), oregano (1 teaspoon) and black pepper (1/2 teaspoon) and blitz on high speed until you get a smooth, well combined paste (Thermomix 45 seconds, speed #9).
Step 2 ROLL - Preheat oven to 200C/400F fan forced or 220C/440F conventional and line a large baking tray with parchment. Divide the mixture in 5x150g/5oz portions. Roll out 1 portion between two large sheets of parchment using a rolling pin.
The thinner you roll it, the more like doner kebab meat it will be. Remove the top layer of parchment and starting from the shorter end, roll up the meat parchment onto itself into 1 inch folds. Place on the parchment lined tray and repeat with the remaining meat portions. Bake for 25 minutes. Rest for 5 minutes, then unfurl all of the parchment packets (there will be enough meat for 4 wraps).
Optional: grill for 5 minutes to crisp edges (I don't do this as I prefer the meat juicy).
Step 3 WRAP - Heat pita bread (1 pita bread) on both sides in an oiled griddle or frypan on medium heat. Add a quarter of the meat and add sauces and top with sumac onions (1/16 red onion and 1/16 teaspoon sumac), tomato slices (1/2 tomato), cucumber slices (1/4 Lebanese cucumber) and lettuce (2 leaves). Roll up in wax paper. This also makes a fantastic sandwich filling.
Personal Note
Add Doner Kebabs to the list of things that Mr NQN likes. He never grew up eating them as he grew up a vegetarian. Also we don't get takeaway a lot but he has really been enjoying having these for lunch every day, especially with the sauces and salad.
He is a funny guy though in a lot of ways. While he is very calm and low key he also has really fixed ideas about gender norms in some ways. To him, he is really set on what is masculine and what is feminine. I don't mean that he thinks that women belong in the kitchen. He is very much a feminist. It's just that he thinks that men don't get facials and don't really look after themselves very well.
However when I give myself a facial at home, I always have to pretend that I have too much product and I call him and he happily sits there and gets a quick little facial from me. It's quite cute how happy he is to do it. And when we were changing the sheets on the bed, I only had one of my silk pillowcases left as we hadn't been able to do the laundry for a while. I use silk pillowcases as they're meant to be good for your hair and skin. I offered it to him telling him that it would be nice to sleep on.
That was about 2 months ago. He has since washed that pillow case every week but also held onto it tightly. It turns out that he simply loves sleeping on it in the same way that he loves facials!
So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever tried this doner kebab hack? And do you have strict ideas about genders?