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Fakeaway Doner Kebabs with homemade Tzatziki

Recipe

Serves:  4 people | Prep time:  15 minutes | Cooking time:  180 minutes

Turkish | Main

Ingredients

  • 1 x 475g pack lamb mince
  • 1½ x tsp paprika
  • 1½ x tsp garlic granules
  • 1 x tsp dried oregano
  • 1 ½ x tsp cumin

Tzatziki

  • 200g yoghurt
  • ½ Cucumber
  • 4g Fresh mint
  • ½ tsp garlic granules

To serve

  • 4 x wholemeal pitta breads
  • 1 x large carrot
  • ½ cucumber
  • Sea salt and black pepper

Method

  1. Mix the mince, paprika, cumin, garlic granules and oregano together in a bowl, season with some salt and pepper and mix well.
  2. On a clean board, make the mince into a block – patting it down well so you don’t have any air inside, and it’s a solid oblong brick shape.Either
  3. Either cook on high in a slow cooker for 3 hours or Preheat your oven to 200c/400f/Gas Mark  6
  4. Wrap the mince completely in some tin foil and roast for 60mins.
  5. To make the Tzatizki finely dice the cucumber. Finely chop the mint and mix with the yoghurt, garlic granules and the cucumber.
  6. Warm the pittas
  7. Thinly slice the lamb lengthways into strips
  8. Split open the pittas
  9. Stuff them with the sliced doner meat, carrot ribbons some thinly sliced cucumber – and serve alongside the tzatziki.