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doner kebab
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Turkish dish
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Vinony's link graph records 983 inbound references to doner kebab, and connects out to gyros, Halifax and kabab.
It sits within the topics Australian sandwiches, Cuisine of Bursa and Fast food.
Vinony links it to 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Course
- Snack or main course
- Place of origin
- Ottoman Empire
- Region or state
- Turkey
- Serving temperature
- Hot
- Main ingredients
- Lamb , beef , chicken , or (rarely) pork
- Variations
- İskender , shawarma , gyros , al pastor
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Döner Kebab, Berlin, 2010 (01).jpg
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- Döner kebab
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- Döner kebap
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Encyclopedic overview
Doner kebab or döner kebab is a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie. Seasoned meat stacked in the shape of an inverted cone is turned slowly on the rotisserie, next to a vertical cooking element. The operator uses a knife to slice thin shavings from the outer layer of the meat as it cooks. The vertical rotisserie was invented in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire, and dishes such as the Arab shawarma, Greek gyros, Canadian donair, and Mexican al pastor are derived from this.
The modern sandwich variant of doner kebab originated and was popularized in 1970s West Berlin by Turkish immigrants. This was recognized by the Berlin-based Association of Turkish Döner Manufacturers in Europe in 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “doner kebab” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.