Vegan Donair & Sauce Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is donair sauce made of? ›

What is donair sauce? A mixture of evaporated milk, white vinegar, garlic powder, sugar, and salt. Simply mix all of those ingredients together, allow them to curdle, then slowly stir. That is it.

The quicker you add the vinegar and the less you mix (I usually give the spoon 3 or 4 turns around the bowl), the thicker the sauce will be. Let sauce sit for at least one hour in refrigerator before using.

A proper donair is a tasty dish made up of four main ingredients: donair meat, toppings, donair sauce, and pita bread. Donair meat is made from spiced ground beef sliced off a rotating cone of meat.

What is a donair? Donairs are a culturally-mixed street food with origins in the Middle East. It generally consists of seasoned beef shaved from a meat cone cooked on a vertical rotisserie, wrapped in a pita and topped with a sweet sauce and condiments.

The first type of product (commonly referred to as donairs) is made from ground meat that is formed into a cone shape and frozen. The second type of product (commonly referred to as shawarmas) is made from thin or whole cuts of meat that are marinated before being stacked on a vertical skewer.

Particularly in British English, a döner kebab sandwich may be referred to simply as "a kebab". A Canadian variation is "donair". In Greek, it was originally called döner (Greek: ντονέρ) but later came to be known as gyros, from γύρος ("turn"), a calque of the Turkish name.

Both are concentrated, shelf-stable milk products that have been heated until at least 60 percent of their water content has evaporated. The main difference between evaporated milk and condensed milk is that evaporated milk is unsweetened while condensed milk is sweetened.

Keep sauce refrigerated once opened.

Gyro (Greek), Shawarma (Arabic) and Döner (Turkish) are all local varieties of döner. The meat and spicing differs. Döner is in most cases cow meat and sometimes chicken, while shawarma (someone correct me if I am wrong) features often lamb in the equation. Gyros is made of pork or chicken, rarely of cow.

Why do Canadians call it donair? ›

When his traditional gyros weren't received too well by the Canadian customers, he changed the recipe and adapted it to their taste. The result was donair. It became the name that's literally on everyone's lips, not just in Halifax, but in the rest of Canada as well.

Although donairs were chosen as the official food of Halifax in 2015, the meal is originally Greek. But the donair sauce was invented on the East Coast, a Greek donair cook said.

The health benefits of eating donairs would be from the veggies they're topped with and the protein in the meat itself. Aside from that, don't expect to eat anything too nutritional from a donair meal. Regardless, donairs taste fantastic, and that's the entire point of ordering one anyway.

Halifax, Nova Scotia is home to a popular and favorite “street meat-esque” dish known as the donair.

Donairs are a meat sandwich typically consisting of beef, lamb, or chicken that has been assembled to form a cone-shaped mass, and slowly roasted on a vertical, rotating spit. Thin slices are carved from the outer surface of the meat as it cooks, and typically served on pita bread with a variety of toppings and sauces.

The donair sauce is another thing that makes the donair uniquely different from other doners around the world. Made up of evaporated milk, vinegar, garlic and sugar this sweet sauce really brings the whole donair together. The pita is then folded and the donair is eaten like an ice cream cone.

Background. In Canada, donairs are usually made with beef, though chicken and lamb donairs are also common. There are two distinct types of donairs.

The word donair has a Turkish origin. The Turkish spelling, döner, refers to the rotation of the meat being prepared. The Greek name is gyros and the word in Greek means round movement or spinning.

Donairs - in the past - are traditionally either Greek or Turkish in origin, also known as "doners", "gyros", "doner kebabs", "kebabs" and "donners". The history of the donair goes back far past Halifax, to either Greece or Turkey. For matters of simplicity and convenience, our donair history starts in Halifax.