Looking for a Turkish Doener Kebab Recipe

[NightWriter]

My husband and I were stationed in Berlin, Germany, and there were these restaurants and stands that served Turkish "Doener Kebabs" ~ unbelievably delicious! They are akin to the Greek "Giros" but have somewhat different ingredients.

The meat is cut off a vertically rotating spit, placed inside of a bready thing (crusty outside, soft inside), raw red and white cabbage is added, and then there are these two sauces ~ a white creamy sauce and a hot and spicy red sauce. The whole thing is then wrapped in paper and foil and eaten either right away, or we toasted it up at home. YUM!!

I would love to know what the meat was and what those sauces were ~ I've never tasted anything else like it.

Thank you ~
NightWriter

[labradors]

Try this recipe.

Another not only has a recipe, but also a video.

Neither of the above give recipes for the sauces (hot, herb, garlic, or yogurt), but I'll do some more looking around this afternoon, and see if I can find any. If nothing else, you could make basic tzatziki sauce from yogurt, cucumber, garlic, red-wine vinegar, and olive oil.

[NightWriter]

Thank you, "labradors", for the link to the Turkish food and your help. The recipe for the meat got me started. The white sauce was not tsatziki, though, as it seemed more mayonnaise-based rather than yogurt and there was no cucumber involvement! But I will keep looking as well.

Thanks so much ~ this was my first post and I never expected such quick reply. Have a great day! ^ ^

[labradors]

Cool! Glad to be of help. Was too busy (including going to the dentist about a cracked tooth) this afternoon to check on the sauces more, but I shall continue to look - probably tomorrow afternoon.

[labradors]

Here's a link that has a couple of suggestions for sauces.

Also, a number of the sources I checked indicated that the red sauce (if it's a spicy red sauce) is mostly a form of Harissa, which, itself, can have many variations. Here is a Harissa recipe that someone posted as being used for the kebabs.

Harissa Sauce Recipe (Kebab red sauce)

This is a really spicy sauce the goes with lots of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern foods.

2 tablespoons crushed red pepper flakes
1 tomato, peeled,seeded and chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled
1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
olive oil (as required)


10 minutes 10 mins prep
In a blender or with a mortar and pestle grind the peppers finely.
Add the garlic, spices, tomato and salt.
Crush until well blended.
Scrape the mixture into a jar, pour over just enough olive oil to cover, cover tightly and refrigerate until needed.
Considering how hot the sauce is, this quantity should last for quite a while.

Someone else suggested that the white sauce, in some cases, is not just seasoned yogurt, but yogurt mixed with aioli. Since aioli is, essentially, a garlic mayonnaise, that could account for the mayonnaise taste you mentioned.

[NightWriter]

Thank you so very much, "labrador". Guess what's on the menu this weekend!?! We will have a party. Thank you for all of the effort you put into helping me.

I should have thought of aioli ~ duh! That's truli what it tasted like ~ herbed aioli.

Thanks again ~ Be well ~
"NightWriter" :)

[labradors]

On 4/24/2008 7:14:00 PM, NightWriter wrote:
>Thank you so very much,
>"labrador". Guess what's on
>the menu this weekend!?! We
>will have a party.

Great! You could email a few of them to me! I'd try to crash the party, but it would probably require an airline flight for me to get there, in time, from Honduras. LOL!

Enjoy, and please let us know how everything turns out.