Döner Dürüm Tavuk
The chicken dürüm: lean thigh döner shaved off the cone into griddle-pressed lavaş, lifted by garlic sauce and sumac onion. The cheap everyday wrap that punishes a hasty knife.
Turkey
Döner Dürüm Et
Red-meat döner shaved from the Bursa cone takes three forms: the İskender plate it was born as, the split-loaf ekmek arası, and the dürüm, the bare meat rolled into lavaş for the street.
Dil Ekmek
Tongue in bread; boiled or fried lamb/beef tongue.
Çupra Ekmek
The çupra ekmek is the Aegean's own fish-in-bread, not a borrowing from Istanbul's mackerel boats. Bodrum farms gilt-head bream by the tonne, and the loaf is what the coast keeps for itself.
Çöp Şiş Ekmek
Çöp şiş ekmek pushes thin wooden skewers of charcoal-grilled lamb off the stick and into a split somun loaf: an Aegean thrift grill from Selçuk and Germencik, seasoned at the last second.
Çöp Şiş Dürüm
Reed-skewered cubes of milk-soaked veal from Ortaklar, in Aydın, pulled into thin lavaş and rolled into a one-handed dürüm.
Çoban Dürüm
'Shepherd's wrap'; with çoban salad (tomato, cucumber, pepper, onion, parsley).
Çinekop Ekmek
Young bluefish, fried or grilled whole, pressed into a split loaf with raw onion and lemon during Istanbul's autumn run, when the Marmara fishing ban has just lifted.
Ciğer Sarma
Edirne's tava ciğer, veal liver cut under a millimetre thick and fried two minutes, rolled into lavaş as a dürüm that began selling in October 2020.
Ciğer Kebab Dürüm
Cubes of lamb liver fired over charcoal at first light and rolled hot into lavaş, the breakfast wrap of Turkey's southeast, where the iron of the grilled organ meets cold sumac onion piled raw around.
Çiğ Köfte Porsiyon
Çiğ köfte served on plate with lettuce wraps.
Çiğ Köfte Ekmek
Çiğ köfte ekmek packs the raw kneaded bulgur paste into a split crusty loaf, so a crust meets the teeth before the cold spiced filling. A 2008 raw-meat ban turned it meatless and chains scaled it.
Çiğ Köfte Dürüm
Raw meatball (now usually vegan—bulgur, tomato paste, spices) wrapped in lavaş with lettuce, onion, pomegranate molasses, lemon.
Çiğ Köfte Dürüm Acılı
Spicy çiğ köfte wrap; extra hot pepper paste.
Cevizli Gözleme
Walnut gözleme is the sweet outlier of the family: crushed walnuts with sugar and cinnamon folded in thin yufka, cooked dry on a saç, then drizzled with honey or grape molasses.
Cağ Kebabı Ekmek
Erzurum's horizontal-spit lamb, shaved onto a small hand skewer called the cağ, given a last char at the coals and pushed into a split crusted loaf. Often called the wood-fired ancestor of döner.
Cağ Kebabı Dürüm
Erzurum cooks the spit on its side. Cağ kebabı turns the lamb cone horizontally so the fat circulates back into the meat, then re-skewers the cooked edge and grills it again before the lavaş dürüm.
Cacık Ekmek
Bread with cacık (yogurt-cucumber-garlic dip); simple, refreshing.
Bursa Pideli Kebap
Bursa's plated kebab: shaved döner over squares of pide soaked dark with tomato sauce, butter poured on top, yogurt alongside. The everyday, untrademarked face of İskender.