The traditional doner kebab meat is lamb. Today, chicken, veal, turkey, and beef are cooked in the same manner, with a combination of veal leg meat, lamb meat, and lamb tail fat being a combination in Turkey. ... The meat is thinly sliced and sometimes combined with ground meat.

Is doner meat just lamb?

The Doner Kebab is also called a donair, döner or donner kebab. Many believe that this brown coloured, spit-roasted, thinly sliced meat, is primarily made from processed lamb meat with some seasoning. However, the meat used for making doner kebab meat may be lamb, beef, veal or chicken but not pork.

How much lamb is in a doner kebab?

Food watchdogs found just one lamb kebab out of 13 was 100% lamb. Tests by trading standards officers showed 10 contained chicken, one had beef and one was a chicken and beef mixture. They also found that two out of 12 beefburgers tested contained lamb.