Which Turkish dish is döner kebab with yogurt and tomato sauce?

Which Turkish dish is döner kebab with yogurt and tomato sauce? The answer is İskender kebab. This Bursa specialty combines thinly sliced döner meat with pieces of pide bread, hot tomato sauce, yogurt, and melted sheep’s-milk butter. The butter is often poured over the dish at the table, where it sizzles and perfumes the meat.

İskender kebab is named after İskender Efendi, who is traditionally credited with developing the dish in Bursa during the late 19th-century Ottoman period. His family’s restaurant helped establish the preparation, and “Kebapçı İskender” remains a protected trademark associated with the family.

The dish is sometimes called Bursa kebabı or Uludağ kebabı, especially in restaurants outside Bursa. These names can refer to closely related preparations, but ordinary Turkish menus most commonly use İskender kebap. The meat may be lamb, or sometimes chicken in modern versions.

A key distinction is that İskender is a plated döner dish, not simply any döner sandwich. Regular döner is often served in bread, a wrap, or over rice, while İskender’s defining combination is pide, tomato sauce, yogurt, and butter.