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İskender kebab
Slices of döner over pieces of pide, under tomato sauce, melted butter and yoghurt.
4 servings · 60 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 4 servings.
- 700 g Lamb, thinly sliced
- 400 g Pide flatbread
- 400 ml Tomato passata
- 120 g Butter
- 300 ml Thick yoghurt
- 1 piece Onion
- 3 clove Garlic
- 1 tbsp Red pepper paste
- 1 tsp Oregano
- 2 piece Green peppers, to serve
- 40 ml Vegetable oil
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Slice the lamb very thin, season it and leave it twenty minutes.
- Fry the onion and garlic in oil, add the pepper paste and warm it a minute.
- Add the passata and oregano and cook the sauce fifteen minutes to thicken it.
- Cut the pide into cubes and dry them in the oven at 180 °C for eight minutes.
- Sear the lamb slices over a very high flame in batches, a minute and a half each.
- Spread the bread on the plates, spoon over some of the sauce, then the meat and the rest of the sauce.
- Melt the butter until it sizzles and pour it over the meat. Put the yoghurt at the side and serve with fried peppers.
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