What is a Halifax Donair? | Meat and Sauce Recipe

So what is a Halifax Donair? a.k.a a Nova Scotia Donair? Let Marc explain and show you how to make this Maritime Canadian classic! Just trust me (Jamie), it's delicious, and the sauce is unbelievable.....try it out!

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INGREDIENTS
SAUCE
1 can sweetened condensed milk
¼ cup white vinegar
1 tsp garlic powder

MEAT
I do a ground pork beef combo, but straight beef is OK too.
3 lbs ground beef (or half/half)
1 onion (cut into small pieces then put into a couple pieces of paper towel to remove any liquid or onion juice)
1 tbsp corn starch
1 tbsp garlic powder
2 tsp black pepper
1.5 tsp cayenne powder
1.5 tsp salt
1 tsp paprika
2 tsp dried oregano

CHAPTERS
0:00 What is a Halifax Donair?
0:30 Halifax Donair Meat and Spice Overview
1:00 Slicing a red onion with the Starfrit Swizzz Prozzz Chopper
1:30 How to Dry Chopped Red Onion
1:49 Halifax Donair Meat Preparation
3:08 Processing Halifax Donair Meat with the Breville Sous Chef 16 Pro
4:05 How to Make Halifax Donair Sauce
5:51 How to Form a Halifax Donair Meat Log
7:39 Slicing Halifa Donair Meat
9:38 Carmelizing Halifax Donair Meat
10:04 Building a Halifax Donair

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[TheAverageKitchen]

Ever tried a donair? Let us know where you had it!

[corm]

I'm going to guess that a KitchenAid stand mixer would work for mixing up the meat, the one I have was passed on to me from my great grandma who bought it new sometime between 1955 to 1960. I'm from the US and I live in the St. Louis, Missouri area the home of the world-famous Gateway Arch. I had never heard of a Donair until I heard another Canadian YouTuber that I sub to talk about having one that was good but not great on a trip he went on to Nova Scotia and the other Canadian Maritime provinces. I look forward to making this for dinner shortly, I've bookmarked this video so I can find it later and I've subbed to you and liked the video, I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Thanks for making this video and have a good one, cya later.

If you can't find the pita bread would tortillas work for this Donair?

[MichaelMillerVlogs]

Here's how you really do the pita. Dip the pita fully in a bowl of water, then throw it on the grill, squirt some oil on it, grill it on both sides. I've worked in pizza shops in Halifax making the donairs you love.

[nidalkhan]

Looks good man...Never had a halifax donair craving for one greetings from Toronto!

[lesleylovelace]

That looked amazing!! Think I would need a printable version to remember everything.

[MichaelMillerVlogs]

Look bro, this is how you do it, dip the pita in water, grill it with oil, put the pita on the tinfoil, then slice the meat thin and put it on the pita, top it with onions and tomato, the the last thing you do is put a big scoop of donair sauce on top. Wrap it up. Boom.

[patriciahopey]

Tonys Donair, Robie and Cunard St, Halifax, Nova Scotia

[jamiedilks]

There is a great donair place in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The name is Sammy's Donair. It is a Lebonese family owned restaurant. Take out or eat in. Ab fab !!!🤗😋

[ruthlesskumquat]

Try adding the vinegar to the leftover sweetened condensed milk in the can and swish it around a little or add some saran wrap over top and shake it up and you'll get all the goodness out of the can

[XForbide]

This looks incredible in trying ur out tomorrorow. Is the cornstarch used as a binding agent? I’ve never seen that before

[jonlibby]

Definitely going to try this. How many lbs of ground meat was that each?

[rushu]

They look similar to Gyros? This was a great video, now I know the secret to the meat. Halifax is a great city and the people are even better. I have many good memories of Halifax

[tossedsalad]

Is Donair Meat or Lamb not only Beef ?

Use your milk can to measure the vinegar and it cleans the can

[teresastanton]

I add thyme and lemon pepper, bay leaf crushed and some lemon juice. I do mine in fry pan with a bit of water simmered, till all water is gone. Yum😋I place my pita overtop the meat as it's cooking in the end and let it steam and just flip on both sides. I like swiping it down with a little real butter.

[alanhattie]

6:00 lmao. "Log" lol. I think "loaf" was the word you were thinking of.

Most people dont make "meat log", we make meat loaf. Lol.

[kben]

I thought Halifax donair meat was always 100% beef?

[MichaelMillerVlogs]

You mixed the sauce too much. Mix the evaporated milk, sugar, garlic powder until sugar is all dissolved. Then add the vinegar and mix it 3 or 4 times by hand, then STOP. Don't over mix it. It should be thick and look like a big bucket of curdled milk. Then you know you've done it properly. The sauce is not supposed to be smooth. That's how all the pizza joints in Halifax do it. Put it in the fridge for an hour before using it.

[carmenmcallister]

your donair meat is cut waaaay too thick....you should also get a good recipe for authentic donair sauce - no sweetened condensed milk in the real stuff....2 thumbs down for me. I used to make donairs in an east coast restaurant...they would have fired you...Lol

[edsmith]

Halifax Donair is made with beef and lamb they never use pork,

[josephbahri]

This is NOT authentic
I lived I Halifax in the early 80's.
Donair meat was SLICES of beef ( no food processor/ blender
And the sause was never called SWEET was made with goats milk....and topped the beef slices, the tomatoes and raw it.
All those ingredients are unnecessary.
This is imitation
NOT
And FROZEN you seriou????


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