Saturday, January 25, 2025

POTD: Doner Kebab and Pide

"Sizzling doner meat,
Lamb and herbs in harmony,
Bodrum's bustling streets."

— h/t ChatGPT

From 2024 05 16 Bodrum

Today's photo-of-the-day is of doner kebab in Bodrum, Turkey. "Doner kebab is a dish of Turkish origin 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."

After the jump, another Turkish savory treat.


We also ate dinner in a small neighborhood restaurant that features pide. Pide "is a savory dish of Turkish Black Sea origin consisting of a usually rounded, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as meat, kasar, beyaz peynir), which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven." Turkish pizza, if you will!

From 2024 05 16 Bodrum
From 2024 05 16 Bodrum

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