Homemade DONAIRS and Sauce

Yield: 1 donair log
Prep Time: 10 minutes, overnight in fridge minutes
Cook Time: 1h 30 min
Serving: Family

By Bonita's Kitchen April 2, 2023

Hi and welcome to our website!

If you are looking for a tasty recipe for HOMEMADE DONAIRS and SAUCE, you are in the right place....

Of course this is not your traditional way to make these Donairs but it's the way we enjoy making it for our family and friends.

So if our recipe interests you make yourself a cup of tea and sit back and watch our short video tutorial to make yours today!

These are a few ingredient's needed for our Homemade DONAIRS and Sauce.

I'm using a mixer with an hook to blend these ingredients together. You can use your hand with a wooden spoon to mix it but you will still need to knead it all together by hand to make the meat mixture firm and to form into a log.

Only a few simple steps to a very tasty chuck of donair meat. You can also put the donair meat into a bread pan and flatten the meat and bake it that way. But I always like to form it into a log and bake or air fry it.

We hope you are still interested in making this tasty recipe, if so the recipe is posted below. Also I will share with you our cookbook link. https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook

Cookbooks — **Our two cookbooks for you to enjoy.....**

Ingredients

Lean ground beef - 1 pound
Ground turkey - ½ pound
Flour - 2 tbsp
Black pepper - ½ tsp
Sea salt - 1 tsp
Onion powder - 1 tsp
Garlic powder - 1 to 1½ tsp, or fresh cloves
Ground Italian seasoning - 1 tsp
Ground coriander - ½ tsp
Cayenne pepper - 1/8 tsp
Donair Sauce:
Milk - ½ cup
Water - ½ cup
Garlic powder - 1½ tsp
Sea salt - ½ tsp
Canola oil - 1 tsp
Cornstarch - 2 tbsp
Sugar - 2 tbsp
White vinegar - 2 tbsp

Instructions

METHOD FOR DONAIR MEAT:

In a bowl, add all ingredients and work it together by hand or by a mixer with hook. After knead seasoned meat with hand by folding the meat to work it more together and all combined.

Do this in the bowl or on the counter.

You will need 8 x 4 inch pan, 1 metal skewer, foil wrap.

First, take the meat and put on foil wrap and form a long rolled log. Wrapping with foil. Take the metal skewer and poke through both ends, then pinch the side around the skewer and put in the fridge for 1 hour to overnight until all seasoning got time to marinate and the spices build more flavours.

Then remove from fridge and place on 8 x 4 inch pan, long ways so skewers are resting on the sides.

Then preheat oven to 350ºF and place pan on centre rack and bake for 1½ hours or until baked. Depending on your oven! Internal temperature is 180ºF

When baked remove from oven and place on cooling rack for 5 minutes or until room temperature, this would be easier to shave small slices of meat from donair log.

Or bake in the Air fryer if you have a rotisserie attachment, set unit to the rotisserie temperature and start.

Cook until the internal temperature is 180ºf and baked.

Then put donair log on your cutting board, let rest for 5 minutes. Then thinly slice long ways.

Serve on flat bread, taco wraps, or regular bread, chopped tomato, raw onions and slivers of lettuce.

METHOD FOR DONAIR SAUCE:

In a small saucepan on medium heat, add milk, garlic, sugar, sea salt, oil and slow mix together.

Then a vinegar and whisk well.

Then add to a measuring cup water and cornstarch, mix well and slowly add to saucepan stirring until thickened.

Taste sauce and add more sugar or garlic to your taste……

Bonita’s Special Note:

This recipe is a viewers request, it’s not a NL traditional recipe but it have been available here in a few restaurants for over 30 years or more. The younger generation got use to this spicy seasoned meat served on flat bread and topped with a sweet donair sauce. This is not anywhere close to the original donairs and sauce recipe, but a mixture of spices that taste close to the donair I remember eating. Enjoy!

Allergens

Milk, White Flour

5 stars - based on 1 review(s)

This recipe was requested by one of our viewers, of course it’s not a traditional recipe for Newfoundland and Labrador but one many of our restaurants serve for over 30+ years.

Traditional donairs are made with ground lamb meat, but this recipe I’m sharing with you today is one we like making from time to time just as a treat and a change from our regular traditional recipes.

I hope you get to make it and for our viewer who requested this recipe we hope you are enjoying it to the fullest……

When baked remove from the air fryer, oven or BBQ and place on a plate to rest for 5 minutes or so and you can cut thin slices. You can cook our homemade donair meat in your AIR FRYER, OVEN or BBQ whatever way works for you…..Just remember bake until the internal temperature is 180ºF.

Mix together, milk, garlic powder, sea salt, oil, sugar and then slowly add vinegar and cornstarch and water. Taste to see if you need anymore seasonings to your taste….

If you have any donair meat left over vacuum seal it for another day to freeze or zip lock bag.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed our recipe today for Homemade Donairs and Sauce, please leave us a message letting us know. Thank you once again to our viewer who requested this recipe and we hope you enjoyed it.

From our kitchen to yours!

On behalf of myself, Raymond and Team, you have a wonderful day….

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