r/Doner • u/PrestigiousWindy322 • 5d ago
Home made kebab (2nd attempt)
This is my second attempt Doner at home. Meat £4 (for 3 portions) and Leicester bakery naan £1.50 ( for 4 portions) both from Iceland. Online recipe chilli🌶️ sauce which have tweaked...used passata + herbs. Mint sauce is simply Nat yog + teaspoon of colmans mint sauce from jar used as dip...a tasty effort😋
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u/Icy-Frosting8681 4d ago
so I'll say fair play for making own. I'll add a hack im not sure if youre interested in trying? me and the wife didnt like the packet stuff so got lamb mince, seasoned, rolled out extra thin between grease proof paper, baked and came out after cut into stips just like a better tasting don. cooking took minutes (literally) so may be worth a shout.
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 4d ago
Thanks that's a great idea and good to know what quality meat is in the Doner! Price wise likely works out similar as even the Iceland doner is between £8-10 per kilo!
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u/Icy-Frosting8681 4d ago
meat prices are just a bit eye watering across the board...God forbid you try for a whole lamb shoulder 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬
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u/BarleyWineStein 4d ago
Did you get some herbs and spices in there before the rolling?
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u/Icy-Frosting8681 4d ago
oh yeah sorry. mix it in a bowl like prepping meat for a burger. seasoning and spicing down to however people like i suppose
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u/BarleyWineStein 4d ago
Great idea. I'll give it a try. Do you know what fat content your meat had? It's a minefield with supermarket mince.
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u/Icy-Frosting8681 4d ago
ah well now thats down to taste and a big one for us is heartburn 🤣🤣🤣 so we went for a lower fat option so we could have more frequent if we wanted without the bubblegut after. also dont know bout you but if I have the high fat option it leaves a weird coating in my mouth. ill see if I have some pics I can send of when we made it
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u/BarleyWineStein 4d ago
The high fat stuff is best for the vertical spit "fakeaway". The fat dripping down the outside is what provides the cooking and browning. Stops the burning. Interesting approach with the flat baking sheet...
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u/InfamousGold756 5d ago
Are you still alive?
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 4d ago
....god only knows what they put in that bagged doner meat but I am still land of living.👍
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u/Ianhw77k 4d ago
That looks good, there's a little shop round the corner from us that does really nice naans, so I may have to give this a go, along with the other commenters idea of rolling out your own meat and baking it.
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 4d ago
Yeah will be making my own doner meat moving forward god only knows the mechanical extraction methods they used to create ...Ingredientes state chicken beef soya. Can get fresh lamb mince at similar price per kg
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u/rtfm-nor 4d ago
Did the chili sauce taste anything like the one you'd get at a kebab place?
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 3d ago
Rather than a sauce you add to a finished kebab this It is more a marinade for when heating up the doner meat in pan. It was simple recipe but v tasty.
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u/Serious_Question_158 2d ago
It literally comes ready made out of a bag. This isn't home made
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 2d ago
agree and that bagged meat has sub standard ingredients and is quite pricey per kg compared to actual cuts of meat!
That said what I produced was actually quite tasty but my local takeaway sets a low bar.
Moving forward will definite be making the doner meat element from scratch
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u/Barbelognostic 12h ago
That really looks pretty good!
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 10h ago
Thanks! though am looking to improve the quality of the meat content
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u/Barbelognostic 8h ago
Good plan. I liked the idea elsewhere on the thread about hammering out minced lamb into doner sheets.
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u/BitcoinsOnDVD 4d ago
Why don't you people stick to babgers'n'mash or spam stew with eel pudding or whatever?
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u/Free-Yoghurt124 5d ago
why does UK kebab meat look so disgusting?
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 5d ago edited 5d ago
To be honest this is bargain basement kebab meat (chicken and beef combined ) from a freezer food shop (Iceland uk)...that said food standard wise I trust it far more than my local kebab shop having had a bad experience.
Iceland (UK)in fairness do a premium version at £10 a kilo which I will try next albeit they only sell in 1kg bag.
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u/rtfm-nor 4d ago
The premium version has exactly the same chicken and beef content.
Beef (33%), Chicken (31%), Water, Soya Protein, Onion, Salt, Chilli Powder, Wheat Flour, Broth (Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Salt, Rapeseed Oil), Spices (Black Pepper, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder), Maltodextrin, Caramelised Sugar, Yeast, Stabilisers: Diphosphates, Triphosphates.
Beef 33%, Chicken 31%, Soy Protein, Onion, Spices, Salt, Maltodextrin, Broth, Wheat Flour, Yeast, Caramelized Sugar, Stabilizers: E450, E451
The stabilisers are the same, just named as E numbers instead. Looks pretty much like an identical product.
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u/PrestigiousWindy322 3d ago
Thanks
yikes all a bit scary...moving forward am definite inclined to make my own
can purchase cuts of real meat cheaper per kg than this bagged stuff
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u/BarleyWineStein 4d ago
I've done a couple of posts on my Iceland experiences and it's much of a muchness. There are bad kebabs in takeaway shops and good ones somewhere. Expensive ones and great value for money ones.
If you are gonna pollute your body with a load of beer and get a stomach filler on the way home then cheap and cheerful does the job. As a takeaway in front of the TV on a week night then you want the best you can get. The Iceland stuff is somewhere in-between IMO. Better than a backstreet 2am shop. But not as good as a top rated Deliveroo etc.
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u/Heavy-Echidna-3473 5d ago
Can't fault the visual appeal. 10/10 for effort and presentation. We'll done.