Chicken doner style sandwich
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- 1 whole onion
Quarter a small onion, blend it in a food processor until liquidy, then pour it into a strainer and let the onion juice drain out.
Onion juice for the doner marinade
- 3 cloves garlic
- 30 g yoghurt
Add three minced cloves of garlic and 30 grams of yoghurt to the onion juice.
- 15 g tomato paste
- 15 g red pepper paste
- ½ whole lemon
- 15 g olive oil
Add the tomato paste, red pepper paste, the juice of half a lemon and 15 grams of olive oil.
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp Turkish oregano
- ½ tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
Add a teaspoon each of salt and Turkish oregano, half a teaspoon each of black pepper and ground cumin and a quarter teaspoon of cayenne, and mix until well blended.
- 500 g chicken thighs
Cut 500 grams of chicken thighs into bite-sized pieces, trimming excess fat.
Add the chicken to the marinade and mix thoroughly so every piece is coated; rest 10 minutes, an hour, or as long as you have.
- red cabbage
Slice the red cabbage into quarters, shave it into strips, rinse it in a bowl of water.
- 1½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp citric acid
Add one and a half teaspoons of salt, a teaspoon of sugar and half a teaspoon of citric acid and massage the cabbage about two minutes.
- 20–30 g apple cider vinegar
- 30 g olive oil
- 1 whole lemon
Add the apple cider vinegar, olive oil and lemon juice and mix thoroughly; it keeps in a jar under its liquid for up to two weeks.
- 1 whole onion
- salt
Slice the onion into strips, sprinkle on a little salt and massage it to break up the layers.
- sumac
- parsley
- 1 whole tomato
Massage in the sumac, then add finely chopped parsley and thinly sliced tomato and mix.
- 100 g yogurt
- 1½ tbsp fresh lemon juice
- ½ tsp dried mint
- ½ tsp garlic granules
- ¼ tsp salt
Mix 100 grams of yogurt with one and a half tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, then add the dried mint, garlic granules and salt.
Garlic yogurt sauce
Line an oven tray with parchment paper, add a wire rack and lay the chicken pieces out so they are not touching.
Oven-grilling the chicken
- soft bread rolls
Cut the bread open, add a couple of spoons of the garlic yogurt sauce, then the red cabbage, then enough grilled chicken to fill it, then the tomato and herb salad and a few more drizzles of sauce.
Assembling and tasting the doner sandwich