Turkish Chicken Doner Kebab
Turkish Street food Doner Kebab served two ways - with bread and Turkish Pilaf.
Ingredients
- 1 kg Chicken fillets See Notes
- 1 Medium Onion
- 3 tbsp Yoghurt
- 2 tbsp Tomatoe Paste
- 2 tbsp Paprika
- 1 tbsp Cumin Powder
- 1 tbsp Salt
- ½ tsp Black Pepper powder
- 1 tbsp Melted Butter
- 2 tbsp Oil or Butter for grilling
- Pita Bread
Garlic Sauce
- 1 Cup Yoghurt
- ½ Cucumber Grated
- 1 tsp Garlic Paste
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice
Salad
- 1 Onion Sliced
- 1 Cucumber Cubed
- 1 Tomatoe Deseeded and cut in cubed.
- 1 tbsp Parsley chopped
- 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
- 1 tbsp Sumac
- Lettuce
Turkish Rice Pilaf
- 1 cup Rice (Preferably Basamati)
- ½ cup Vermicelli
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 cups Water See Notes
Instructions
Prepare Chicken
- Blend onion in a blender or with a stick blender. Strain the liquid to get around ½ cup of onion water.
- Add yoghurt, tomatoe paste, Salt, paprika, cumin powder, pepper and butter and mix well.
- Cut chicken into thin fillets by cutting vertically and marinate it in the marinade prepared. Allow it to be marinated for 3-4 hrs or preferably overnight.
- Put chicken on a cling wrap by overlapping and then roll it into a log shape. Wrap it in foil and put in the freezer for 24 hrs. It should be frozen and hard.
- Take chicken out and Cut thin slices but don't let meat to get completely defrosted. The first few slices are hard to cut but as you keep cutting it gets easier.
- Heat oil/butter in a pan and grill chicken while turning it around.
Garlic Sauce
- Mix all Ingredients together.
Salad
- Mix all the ingredients except lettuce. Add lemon juice and sumac and mix.
To Assemble
- Heat bread slightly, in the same pan chicken was prepared.
- Put chicken on the bread, add lettuce and salad. Drizzle yoghurt sauce and chilli sauce ( or any sauce you like). And wrap it.
Turkish Rice Pilaf
- Wash and rinse rice with water. Soak them for 15-20 mins.
- In a pot heat oil and butter, once hot fry vermicelli for few minutes until it slightly changes colour.
- Add rice and fry them for at least 5 minutes
- Add Water, when the water starts to simmer add butter and salt. Reduce heat to low. Cover and cook for at least 15-20 minutes until the rice are done.,
Notes
- You can use either breast or thigh fillets or mix both together.
- This is quantity of water required for basmati rice. If using any other type of rice use water according to instructions given.