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Kebab means grilled meat in Turkish. Kebab is made of lamb and beef. In the United States, this is usually called gyros meat, while a kebab is a stick with small cubes of any kind of meat or fowl and vegetables that is roasted on a grill.
There are different variants of kebab:
European:
- Döner Kebab - sliced lamb or chicken loaf
- Samak Kebab - fish shish kebab
- Shish Kebab - cubes of meat on a stick
- Kofte Kebab - cubed beef-lamb loaf on a stick
Kebabs are normally served in pita bread with salad. Doner can be either lamb or chicken.
And also if kebab is put to pizza, it's called a kebabpizza.
American (where it is sometimes called shish kebab or kebob):
- Beef kebab
- Chicken kebab
- Tofu kebab
- Vegetable kebab
- Turkey kebab
American kebabs consist of meat and vegetables held together with a wooden skewer. Vegetables typically used include eggplant, tomato, bell pepper, onion and mushrooms. Americans would call lamb Döner Kebab either gyros or shwarma.