Shawarma is a popular oriental dish of Arab origin. This delicious dish of pita bread is prepared, which begins with minced meat, grilled, with the addition of   spices, sauces andfresh vegetable salad.

Now this dish occupies a leading position among fast, satisfying “street” food and not everyone can pass by the aroma of fried meat. Shawarma can be bought not only in street stalls, it is served in cafes and even restaurants.

Meat can be lamb, chicken, veal, turkey, pork can be found in non-Muslim countries.

The advantages of shawarma is that it quickly and simply cooks, it turns out to be very satisfying, and more and more housewives try to cook it at home.

An electric grill, which is offered by manufacturers of household appliances, will help us prepare meat. Thin flat cakes - pita bread will also be prepared with our own hands, although supermarkets now offer them in a wide assortment.

Shawarma Recipe

for the test we need:

• flour - 360 gr
• salt - 1/2 tsp.
• vegetable oil - 20 gr.
• hot water - 200 ml.

step by step cooking:

Cooking pita bread - cakes for shawarma. Sift flour into a bowl, add salt, mix. In the flour, make a deepening and pour vegetable oil and hot water (temperature - 80 degrees) into it, and knead the dough.

Then put the dough on the table and knead, do not add flour anymore. The dough is well kneaded, it has become smooth and does not stick to your hands. Let the dough “rest” for about 20 minutes, wrapping it in a plastic wrap.

Roll the dough into a sausage and cut into six equal parts. Lubricate the table and rolling pin with oil and roll the dough very thinly.

Fry rolled dough in a completely dry and hot pan on both sides.

Put the prepared hot pita bread on a cutting board, and so that it does not dry and is soft, sprinkle with water and cover with a towel.

Pita prepared according to such recipes is soft, thin and smells great. Very tasty!

To prevent ready-made pita bread, store it in cling film.

to prepare the filling, you will need the following ingredients:

for sauce:

• unsweetened yogurt
• garlic
• black pepper
• dried herbs: coriander, dill, parsley, zira, suneli hops, curry
• greens: chives, dill, parsley, basil, cilantro

cooking:

Pre-marinated meat will be fried in a vertical grill. Pieces of meat are strung on vertically arranged skewers, they will rotate around its axis and relative to the heating elements.

Fry the meat for about 10 to 15 minutes. When the meat is fried, turn off the grill. Chop meat pieces in addition. The advantage of cooking meat on the grill is that when frying, excess fat flows into special cups.

Other options for cooking meat - stew the meat in a pan, or boil in the broth, cook in the oven, or in a slow cooker (for 1 hour, the “Baking” mode.)

Chop cabbage and carrots with very thin straws, chop tomatoes and cucumber, chop parsley. In a large bag, mix cabbage, carrots and add chopped parsley, add salt, sugar and quite a bit of vegetable oil. Tie a bag and shake well several times, and leave for a while.

prepare white garlic sauce

In yogurt, add finely chopped clove of garlic with zira, salt and black pepper to taste. Let the sauce infuse for 20 minutes.

The classic recipe sauce goes well with any kind of shawarma.

Smear the baked cake with sauce, then put the cabbage salad with carrots, fried meat, cucumber ribbons, tomato circles, wrap everything up and ... Bon appetit!

Delicious Shawarma with Chicken and Korean Carrots

Shawarma using chicken meat - the most common variations of this dish. Chicken meat has a delicate taste, is well-fried and goes well with various vegetables and sauces.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 0.5 kg
• fresh cabbage - 300 gr.
• tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.
• korean carrots 100 gr.
• salt and pepper, sauce - to taste
• vegetable oil - for frying chicken
• onion - 1 onion

Step by step cooking:

1. Cut the onion thinly into half rings and start frying in a pan in a small amount of oil. Then add chicken fillet, chopped into small pieces, add salt to the onion, you can add spices to taste. When the meat is fried onion, and juice does not flow out, and the meat is juicy.
2. White cabbage, try to chop as thin as possible, put in a deep bowl, add salt, sugar, a drop of vegetable oil and vinegar, mix gently with your hands, do not need to knead strongly.
3. Chop the cucumbers and tomatoes into strips. Korean carrots can be purchased in advance from salad dealers in the market.
4. Lay out the pita bread and lay out all the products, starting with cabbage. Pour homemade ketchup on top, wrap. Shawarma is ready. Bon Appetit!

Appetizing shawarma prepared according to this recipe will turn out to be juicy, and carrots will bring a hint of pungent flavor.

Appetizing shawarma with sausage and cheese

Shawarma is usually cooked with meat, but it can be replaced with boiled, smoked sausage or ham. It will turn out no less tasty and very fast.

Cut vegetables, sausage and cheese into a thin plate. It is better to take sausage without fat, and hard cheese, it melts better and the taste will be completely different. Grease a sheet of pita bread with white sauce, spread vegetables, sausage and cheese. Pour tomato sauce on top, wrap, and fry in a dry frying pan until light brown, so that the filling is well warmed up.

How to cook white garlic sauce we have already learned, now we will prepare tomato sauce. In terms of taste, it is much superior to ordinary ketchup. You can add fresh vegetables to it.

Cooking Red Tomato Sauce

We will need the following ingredients:

• tomato paste - 2 tbsp.
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.
• tomato - 1 pc.
• bell pepper - pcs.
• bow -1 pcs.
• salt, sugar
• ground red pepper, cilantro

Cooking:

Dice the onion and tomato and fry in a pan.

Take a blender and put in it - chopped bell pepper, passaged tomato and onion, ground red pepper, salt, sugar, tomato paste, cilantro. Grind everything until the consistency of thick sour cream. Let it brew for 20 minutes. The result was a spicy tomato sauce with a sweet - spicy taste!

Shaverma in St. Petersburg at home

The homemade version of the shawarma is very masculine, plentiful and delicious !!!

The main criterion by which the shawarma differs from the shawarma is the shell. Thin pita bread is used for shawarma, and half pita for shawarma.

Hearty Vegetarian Shawarma with Mushrooms

Vegetarian shawarma is an unusual and very tasty dish. If you do not eat meat, then it is very easy to replace it with mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• champignons or any forest mushrooms - 250 grams
• cucumber - 1 pc.
• tomato - 2 pcs.
• onion - 1 pc.
• lettuce
• tomato sauce - 2 tbsp. l

Cooking:

1. Sort the mushrooms, rinse them thoroughly, cut into slices. Put them in a pan, salt to taste and fry in vegetable oil.
2. Wash, peel and cut onions into rings. Add it to the pan after about 15 minutes from the start of cooking. Fry the dish for about 10 minutes, until the onion has a golden appetizing color.
3. Narut salad leaves with your hands, and cut tomatoes and cucumbers into cubes.
4. Grease pita bread with white garlic sauce, put lettuce leaves, tomatoes, cucumbers, fried mushrooms. Top with red tomato sauce. Roll the shawarma roll or envelope.

Video. How to wrap shawarma in pita bread

Shawarma is not only a hearty meal for the whole family. This dish may become a favorite among your friends. The male part of the company will appreciate such a shawarma served with beer. And although it is called a man’s dish, I think women will like it too!

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Good day to all! Summer is in full swing and as usual the season of shawarma has come. Wherever you look now there are tents and stalls with these fast foods everywhere. And how do you look at making this dish yourself at home?

Do-it-yourself has always been healthier and tastier, so who cares, don’t miss, stay and read this article to the end.

Interesting! Shawarma or shawarma, dener kebab, fakitos, but such funny names 🙂 Who is used to calling this Middle Eastern (Levantine) dish? Whose kitchen is this? I think that the Mediterranean, if you literally translate these unusual names, you get a "tortilla with meat." But indeed all shawarma is cooked with meat, it can be chicken, beef or pork. Now even often use mutton or turkey poultry. And plus various vegetables are added, for example cucumbers, tomatoes, cauliflower, etc.

It is usually served hot when you want to have a bite to eat. There are plenty of options, as always, in our city they sell even under different names, for example, "in Turkish", Uzbek, vegetable, color, etc.

It’s easy to cook this dish at home, it will be even safer than bought in a stall or at a market or train station. After all, the main thing is that you yourself know what you put in there, and you can add or change the ingredients in your own way and taste. This chicken version is simple and tested, it can be said to be easy to prepare, because instead of tortillas we will use Armenian pita bread.

The technology is given in one or two servings. You can modify the composition and take products by eye. I offer a cheese-free option. So what should be a shawarma or shawarma cooked at home?

We will need:

• Armenian pita - 1 pc.
• Cooked sausage -100 g
• Boiled chicken meat - 200 g
• White cabbage - 150 g
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Pickled cucumbers - 1 pc.
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Salt to taste
• Greens to taste
• Ketchup - 2-3 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp.
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Apple cider vinegar or 9% - for pickling onions + some water

Cooking method:

1. Take one small pita bread, or large pita bread, but it will need to be cut into two halves. Place it on a clean, wiped dry table. The first layer - chop cabbage with a knife.

Important! If you want to bake pita bread yourself, then the dough and all the secrets of its preparation can be found in my other articles, which will certainly appear soon. Usually, all the same, everyone takes ready-made pita breads and invents this delicious roll.

2. The second step, sprinkle with grated or chopped carrots on top of the cabbage.

Important! You can cut carrots with a special knife. And if you want the dish to be even tastier and spicy, then take a better prepared Korean one, or create one yourself.

4. Next, lay the pickled onions. If you don’t know how to pickle onions, then read in There I talked about how to cook kebabs and as a bonus at the end I described the process of cooking pickled onions.

Important! You can not use onions at all, it's an amateur.

Then put sausages and bell peppers cut from the straws on top. And boiled chicken in small pieces. Lubricate everything with mayonnaise and ketchup. Such bright colors, right now at this stage I want to eat everything. Salt and pepper to taste, you can also use fresh herbs or replace it with dried herbs.

5. The most important point remains, this is how to wrap the shawarma beautifully so as not to crumble.

Important! Do not make a large filling in volume, since then you cannot wrap it, it will be too thick.

First, wrap the right edge in the middle of the sheet, as shown.

7. Well, now is the time to see what came of it. Try it, just eat it. Such a juicy gourmet will give you an unforgettable taste. My husband says that this is the best food in the world, and what do you think? 🙂

  The classic recipe for cooking shawarma (shawarma) with chicken

I would like to note right away that there are a lot of traditional options. This species is the most common, but at the same time the best and real. It will be cooked without carrots with an interesting and fragrant sauce based on sour cream and mayonnaise. This original vegetable step-by-step version of shawarma turns out no worse than that of a chef.

We will need:

• chicken fillet - 0.5 kg
• armenian pita -2-3 pcs.
• cucumber either fresh or salted - 2 pcs.
• white cabbage - 150 g
• tomato - 2-3 pcs.
• onions - 1 pc., if you like
• greens and seasoning to taste

For the sauce:

• sour cream - 3-4 tablespoons
• kefir - 3-4 tablespoons
• mayonnaise - 3-4 tbsp
• garlic-3 cloves
• black and red ground pepper
• curry, coriander, dried spices (basil, cilantro, parsley, dill, etc.)

Cooking method:

1. Take any chicken meat, wash it in running water, and then cut into small neat pieces.

2. Then they need to be pickled in any spices, or any.

3. Chop the cabbage with a cooking knife.

Important! Cut it into thin sticks.

5. The next action is tomatoes, which are very important to cut into small pieces, and shake off excess juice.

Important! If the tomato has a thick peel, remove it, to do this, pour boiling water over them and hold for a minute, then remove and remove.

6. Now, in order to prepare the sauce for shawarma or shawarma, use this instruction. Combine mayonnaise, sour cream and kefir in a bowl. Squeeze garlic through a press, pepper, add spices and your favorite seasonings. The main thing here is not to overdo it, try it, it will turn out very tasty. Shuffle.

7. Fry the chicken in a pan with vegetable oil.

Important! Fry over high heat for 4 minutes, since we don’t have a grill on hand, so you have to fry in a very hot pan, so that the pieces are very well fried. On top were crispy, and inside juicy. 🙂

8. Well, now the most crucial moment. Expand the sheet of pita bread, and place the filling in succession: soume, chicken cubes, tomatoes, cucumbers, seasonings, salt and pepper, sauce.

9. Wrap it like this in pita! 😛 How do you wrap a shawarma?

10. Now you can fry a little in a pan on both sides, until crisp.

11. The pan-fried yummy is ready! Put on lettuce leaves and serve in a good mood. Tasty discoveries for you!

  Lavash shawarma with sausage

This option will be with cheese and sausage, sausage can be replaced with ham. We cook at home quickly and tasty, with love and care for your loved ones, so that it turns out no worse than in the popular McDonald's.

We will need:

• pita - 1 pc.
• cooked or smoked sausage - 100 g
• fresh cucumber, salted in winter - 1 pc.
• processed cheese - 1 pc.
• mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp
• salt and pepper to taste

Cooking method:

1. Expand half the finished pita bread and spread the surface with mayonnaise with a silicone brush.

2. After sprinkle with sausage.

3. Then grated or finely chopped cucumbers. Salt and pepper to taste.

4. Now the super ingredient is an unusual cheese, namely melted, in order to conveniently grate it, place it in a refrigerator in the freezer in advance.

5. The final stage on the entire surface of the filling, walk with tomato paste or ketchup.

6. Carefully wrap the resulting miracle, put on a plate. Make one more such “creature” out of the second half of pita bread. Call a friend or girlfriend and treat yourself!

  Pork shawarma

In addition to the most popular types with chicken, in rare cases, beef is also made with pork. How to cook, you will now find out, we recently made such a family at a picnic on the grill, and why not, in summer it is possible in nature, and not just at home. Instead of pork, you can also use other products, such as mushrooms, because in terms of calorie content they are not inferior to meat in anything.

We will need:

• pork meat - 110 g
• cucumber - 1 pc.
• tomato - 1 pc.
• cabbage - 40 g
• thin pita bread - 2 pcs.
• onions - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2 cloves
• mayonnaise - 1-2 tbsp
• ketchup - 1-2 pcs.
• pork seasoning mix
• salt to taste

Cooking method:

1. Cut all the vegetables on the list in any form, it is better to choose the shape in the form of sticks or straws, of course.

2. Chop pork into small pieces, add salt and pepper, and fry if you are at home in a pan for 3-4 minutes over high heat. You can also pickle pork in advance. If you are on vacation, then generally such meat can be fried on skewers. 😛 For the sauce, take mayonnaise and skip into it, or better chop finely the garlic. Then the aroma will be much more saturated.

3. To make such a sauce look even more piquant, add chopped greens.

4. Now unfold the pita bread and brush it with sauce. Next lay out all the ingredients randomly in layers.

6. Well, what did it look like in a restaurant or in a cafe. Put on a plate and add a leaf of parsley for beauty.

  Delicious shawarma with Korean carrots and fries in tents

In my opinion, this type of shawarma is the most popular and most in demand. In the end, I even got it specially for you in one of our eateries, as everyone calls him a “lump” of exactly the technology that is used there in grams.

Well, now I also offer an original cooking option. By the way, who knows how many calories in such one piece of shawarma? Write your comments.

We will need:

• chicken meat - 150-200 g
• potatoes - 1-2 pcs.
• cheese - 60 g
• onions - 1 pc.
• any greens to taste
• pickles - 1 - 2 pcs.
• mayonnaise, sour cream, kefir - only 10 tbsp.
• garlic - 1 clove

Cooking method:

1. Cut all the ingredients in stages, as you see in these pictures. Fry the potatoes and chicken pieces in a pan with vegetable oil.

Important! Once I didn’t have a sour pickle, so I replaced it with sour cabbage. So do not be afraid to add or change to something of your own.

2. Now lay out all the products obtained in layers on pita bread. Do not forget to pepper and salt, and make the sauce. Mix mayonnaise, sour cream and kefir, you can take only 2 components, for example, sour cream and mayonnaise about 1: 1: 1 or 1: 1, and of course chopped garlic, mix. Apply, grease the filling, and then wrap in such a roll.

Important! If you're a thriller, add hot red pepper.

3. Love the crisp charm, then use a frying pan and fry it, or use a grill. Bon Appetit!

As promised, the option is like in a stall or tent in our city, which you used to usually order with home delivery.

Do you like baked meat fried foods? Then try to make samsa.

  Shawarma with meatless crab sticks

I relate this option to the original. Yes, as soon as crab sticks appeared in stores, we began to add them anywhere and in salads and even fry them in batter, well, they also began to use them in this dish.

What kind of meat do you usually take for shawarma? This option is generally without meat, you can also do it without cabbage, imagine, but by the way it turns out very tasty. By the way, such a roll can be made for a holiday, cut it into pieces and serve as a snack for any celebration or feast.

We will need:

• crab sticks - 110 g
• white cabbage - 100 g
• cucumber - 1 pc.
• pita - 1 pc.
• mayonnaise -2 tbsp
• salt and pepper to taste

Cooking method:

1. Take the pita bread and cut it in half. Lubricate the surface on the side where the mayonnaise filling will be. Next, lay out the first green layer - chopped cabbage.

Important! To make the cabbage juicy, you need to salt it after cutting and squeeze it with your hands.

3. Roll up like an envelope or pita.

4. Well, it turned out very good, and most importantly, superbly simple!

  Shawarma from professional Stalik Khankishiyev. Video

Fans of this famous person, I advise you to watch this video and listen to his advice and recommendations. Well, and to all those who are just interested ?! 😛

  Dietary Shawarma

I didn’t even know that such options exist, it turns out there are a lot of them, so I suggest you choose any filling and create this dish. How do you look at it?

  Shawarma sauce, like in stalls

What do you think is the most popular sauce and which is most ordered in tents and stalls, I did a little research, it turned out that in our area it is garlic from kefir (sour cream) and mayonnaise, in second place from yogurt, and third place - mayonnaise + ketchup.

I suggest you watch the video from the YouTube channel of the most mega famous sauce, in more detail about other options another article will be released soon, so if you're interested, visit my blog more often and see for yourself.

P.S  Well, finally I wrote a note about different interpretations of shawarma sauces, read here:

  How to properly wrap shawarma.Learning to wrap up quickly and easily!

And now I want to do it all the same not only so that you can prepare a delicious filling, but also learn how to cook this dish beautifully and in different ways. This video is very short, but watching it, you will immediately understand everything and you will certainly succeed the first time. Choose your favorite method and cook with pleasure dear blog subscribers and guests!

  Secrets and rules of delicious juicy shawarma from chefs

1. Many chefs and chefs 🙂 prefer to add handfuls of meat of different varieties, that is, mix chicken with lamb or pork.

2. To prevent fried meat from turning dry, sprinkle it with lemon juice.

3. If you want to make the sauce not white, but a slightly different color, then add any seasonings, such as curry. It will be much richer and more piquant.

4. Remember the important rule, after cooking you do not need to heat the dish in the microwave, as it will become very soft and lose its taste.

That's all for a good and productive day! May this day be good and bring you only joy and positive! Do not forget to write your reviews and suggestions. Bye, bye. See you!

P.S  Anecdote of the day: The Shawarma Ot Suri firm will quickly and completely free your area from stray cats and dogs!

Cooking shawarma at home has one indisputable advantage. When the shawarma is cooked at home, you are confident in the quality of the products from which it is prepared. You don’t have to ask the street vendor how to make shawarma, because we will be happy to share the best recipes with you and tell you how to cook shawarma at home quickly and tasty.

1. Shawarma with sausage

Ingredients:

• Pita - 2 pcs.
• Cucumber - 2 pcs.
• Korean carrot - 200 gr.
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• Sausage - 400 gr.
• Peking cabbage leaves - 5-6 pcs.
• Cheese - 150 gr.
• Ketchup, mayonnaise - to taste
• A bunch of fresh herbs - 1 pc.

Cooking

1. Cut the sausage into small cubes and fry in a skillet for 10 minutes. You can add seasoning to your taste.
2. Cut tomatoes into thin slices.
3. We cut cucumbers with thin strips.
4. Thinly chop the cabbage.
5. We chop greens.
6. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
7. First, put the sausage on the pita bread.
8. We spread tomatoes and cucumbers.
9. Add cabbage, greens.
10. Then lay out a layer of Korean carrots, cheese, add mayonnaise and ketchup.
11. We bend the edges of the pita bread and roll it.
12. We warm shawarma in a pan with a thick bottom. Fry over medium heat on both sides until golden brown.

2. Shawarma quickly

I really love shawarma - and you? Immediately stopping a possible outrage over the popularization of fast food - I don’t consider shawarma “fast food”, because I cook it at home, carefully and thoroughly. Excellent, I must say, a thing turns out. I share.

I must warn you right away - I won’t give specific recommendations on the number of products - I do everything by eye. Moreover, someone likes to have more meat, and someone likes salad.

So, main ingredients:

• thin armenian pita
• chicken thighs (flesh)
• cabbage
• korean carrot
• cucumbers
• tomatoes
• ketchup
• mayonnaise

Cooking

1. Cut the pulp from the hips, finely chop and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
2. We shred the cabbage and crush it with our hands, we cut the cucumbers and tomatoes in circles (or whatever you like). We spread cabbage on pita bread, on top - fried chicken (I put 3 tablespoons per serving).
3. Water with ketchup. Next, put the circles of cucumber and tomato, cover with Korean carrots and finish with mayonnaise.
4. Wrap up.
5. We heat in the microwave.

That's all. As easy as pie.

3. Chicken Shawarma Recipe

Ingredients for 4 Shawarma:

• 300 grams of chicken (half)
• 2 small tomatoes
• 1 cucumber
• 5 tablespoons of ketchup
• mayonnaise
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 200 grams of white cabbage
• 4 tablespoons of kefir
• 1 small onion
• armenian pita 1 pack
• cooking oil

Cooking

1. Wash chicken fillet under running water and cut into small pieces.
2. Finely chop the onion and send it to fry in a small amount of vegetable oil
3. When the onion becomes transparent, add sliced \u200b\u200bfillets to it, salt, pepper, mix and leave to fry.
4. We wash the cabbage under water, finely chop and put in a bowl. Salt, pepper, mix, add a small amount of mayonnaise. Salad ready.
5. Ready chicken with onions (it cooks very quickly, 5-7 minutes), shift to a clean plate.
6. Cooking sauces.  Take two small bowls. We squeeze in one 5 tablespoons of ketchup, and pour a teaspoon of your favorite seasoning (I have hops-suneli).
     Mix well. Pour 5 tablespoons of kefir into the second bowl, add mayonnaise (4 tablespoons per eye) and squeeze two garlic cloves. Mix well.
7. We make slices of tomatoes and cucumbers, cut them thinly into slices and spread on a plate.
8. We put all the ingredients for shawarma next to it on the table so that it is convenient to immediately spread them.
9. We take a big deal, put half of one sheet of pita bread on it. Spread it well with two sauces, put chicken in a row closer to the right edge (it will be more convenient if you divide the chicken on a plate into 4 parts at once). Next to the chicken we spread cabbage in a row. We put tomatoes and cucumbers on top of the cabbage.
10. We turn the finished shawarma so that to bend one edge, so that the filling does not leak.
      make 3 remaining shawarma according to the same principle.
11. Heat the oil in a pan. Fry the shawarma on both sides until golden brown. If the sauces remain - put in the open part of the shawarma on a spoon of sauce before serving.

4. Very tasty homemade shawarma - quick and easy to prepare!

Ingredients:

• thin Armenian lavash (can be replaced with pita)
• meat component
• young cabbage
• red lettuce
• young fresh cucumbers
• tomatoes
• yellow bell pepper
• parsley
• good sour cream
• white wine vinegar
• garlic
• salt, sugar, pepper + any spices to taste
• vegetable oil

Cooking

1. First prepare the sauce so that it stands for a while and all tastes are well connected.
2. To do this, add chopped parsley to sour cream, garlic, salt and pepper passed through a press, mix everything well.
3. Then marinate finely chopped red onion in salt, sugar and wine vinegar.
4. Chop vegetables.
5. Cut the desired length of strips of pita bread and half grease with sauce, top with vegetable filling.
6. The meat component may be boiled chicken breast, cooked in advance and cut into small pieces. Fry the breast in hot vegetable oil, stirring constantly.
7. Fold carefully and firmly the pita bread with the filling, starting from the right side into the tube and fry quickly in a grill pan heated to the maximum on both sides.

5. Homemade Shawarma

Ingredients:

• Pita - 3 large sheets
• Meat (pulp) - 400g
• Fresh white cabbage - 200 g
• Cucumbers - 4 pieces
• Tomatoes - 2 pieces
• Mayonnaise - to taste
• Ketchup or sauce to taste
• Salt, pepper, curry seasoning
• Garlic - 2 cloves

Cooking

1. We start cooking shawarma with preparing the ingredients for the filling. Wash the meat, dry it slightly and cut it into small pieces-strips.
2. In a preheated dry frying pan, put the chopped meat, add the curry seasoning and fry until golden. At the end of cooking, add salt and pepper.
3. Cut the cabbage into thin strips and squeeze a little with salt.
4. We also cut the cucumbers into thin strips.
5. Cut the tomatoes into thin plates.
6. Now we begin to stack the filling. We expand the pita bread and grease it with mayonnaise and ketchup, add dumb chopped or squeezed garlic.
7. Lay meat on one side of the pita bread, gently sprinkle cabbage on top.
8. Then spread the cucumbers "herringbone".
9. Put a few slices of tomatoes on top.
10. First we turn the long edges of the pita bread, and then completely twist it into a roll.
11. Let us warm slightly on a dry frying pan on both sides.

Homemade shawarma is ready! It’s better to eat it right away. If you leave the shawarma in the refrigerator, then before use it should be heated in the microwave or in a pan.

6. Shawarma in pita bread

Ingredients:

• thin pita 2 pcs
• pork (chicken can also be used) 350-400 gr
• beijing cabbage 100 gr
• tomatoes 2 pcs
• cucumbers 2 pcs
• onion 1 pc

For the sauce:

• sour cream 3 tbsp
• mayonnaise 2 tbsp
• clove of garlic 3 pcs
• bunch of dill

Cooking

1. Salt pork, fry and finely chop, pepper. Tomatoes, finely chopped cucumbers, chop cabbage. Chop the onion in half rings.
2. For the sauce, mix all the ingredients, finely chop the dill, pass the garlic through a press and add to the sauce.
3. Spread a little sauce on the pita bread, put the filling, again the sauce and wrap it in a roll (the edges should also be closed).
4. Ready shawarma can be grilled, if desired, to form a delicious crust.

Bon Appetit!

Considered Europe's fast food, shawarma is actually a traditional food in eastern countries. Even the ancient Arabs wrapped in a piece of flat unleavened bread (pita or pita bread) grilled finely chopped meat. Salads and sauces were added to it, turning shawarma into a full-fledged dish.

Today, this appetizer is often sold on the streets, where it is popular due to its low cost and ease of use.

Ingredients and methods for making shawarma

Any meat for shawarma is taken:  lamb, beef, chicken, pork. It is the main component of the dish. The rest of the ingredients (vegetables, sauces, additives) may vary from seasonality and taste preferences.

In public fast food outlets, cucumber, tomato, onion, and cabbage are often added to chicken meat. Cheese and mushrooms can also become components of shawarma. Instead of traditional sauces, it is flavored with mayonnaise and ketchup.

The usual preparation of shawarma is reduced to the vertical roasting of meat, cutting all the components and folding them into pita bread. According to the rules, meat should be cooked on a vertical grill. Skewered on a skewer, it, rotating around its axis, is uniformly fried on all sides. Finished upper pieces of meat are cut into a thin layer, and then finely chopped.

Calorie content: how many calories in shawarma

Such a nutritious dish does not belong to the category of diet. The average number of calories in it is from 240 to 290 kcal per 100 grams. Selected meat, vegetable additives, special sauces directly affect how many calories in shawarma will turn out.

The most dietary will be an appetizer of chicken breast with vegetables and low-fat sauce - 150-170 kcal.

Features recipes in different countries

There are many recipes for making shawarma, so there is no definite answer on how to cook shawarma correctly. Every country has long been bringing its culinary traditions to this dish.

Azerbaijanis usually serve sweet and sour white sauce for shawarma, pouring pita bread with fat tail. In Israel, milk additives are completely absent, and the favorite seasoning is pickled mango, hummus, sesame sauce.

In Mexico, shawarma meat is marinated in spicy red pepper sauce. And the Germans often instead of pieces of meat use sausage fried on a spit.

The simplicity of cooking shawarma contributes to its street sales in large volumes. However, rancid or burnt meat, store sauces, low-quality vegetables can spoil any snack. But to fully enjoy this juicy and tasty dish, it is easier to make shawarma at home. It will turn out much cheaper, safer and tastier than any street option.

How can shawarma be wrapped: rules for wrapping

Before you start creating snacks, you need to decide on the bread component. With pita, making a dish is much easier, but for classic products you should know how to wrap shawarma in pita bread.

This is necessary so that all products are evenly distributed over the pita and not fall out, so that the appearance of the product is neat and beautiful.

Before the folding process itself, you also need to remember a few rules:

1. Lavash sheet is smoothed on a flat surface.
2. The cake is smeared with a special sauce.
3. All filling is laid out with indents from the edges.
4. The process of folding the product.

How to wrap shawarma, it will look more clearly in the photo:

Open shawarma

This type of shawarma coagulation is classic.

• On the expanded sheet of rectangular pita bread closer to the right edge, lay the meat filling with vegetables.
• Start folding the sheet from right to left, covering them with the filling.
• Roll lavash to the middle, completely covering the filling.
• Tighten the bottom of the cakes right next to the filling and lay it overlap up.
• Continue folding the shawarma in the shape of a “tube”.

Closed Shawarma

This method is less common, but it is convenient for take-away options, because keep the filling warm longer.

• Lay out a square thin sheet of pita bread with a rhombus.
• Put the filling in the middle of the sheet.
• Tuck the bottom edge of the pita right up to the filling, covering it with the end of the tortilla.
• Collapse the right and left corner of the pita, connecting them in the center of the product on top of the filling and the bottom edge of the cake.
• Roll the shawarma “roll” to the remaining open top edge of the pita.

Shawarma with chicken at home

Chicken meat, as the most affordable and fastest in frying, is a leader among fillings. Therefore, homemade shawarma with chicken in pita bread is a frequently encountered version of the dish. And all kinds of flavors, sauces and spices can diversify it, creating new options.

Simple shawarma with chicken and vegetables

Even without special skills, you can please your family with a snack. A store sauces greatly facilitate the cooking process.

Essential Ingredients:

• pita - 3 sheets;
• chicken fillet - 400 gr;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• tomato - 2 pcs.;
• cucumber - 2 pcs.;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• mayonnaise, ketchup to taste.

How to cook:

Usually, shawarma meat at home is not cooked on a vertical grill. This process replaces conventional pan frying.

Chicken breast cut into small pieces of oblong shape. Fry it in a pan until cooked with salt and pepper.

Chop the cabbage finely. Cut carrots into strips or grate coarsely. Mix vegetables, crushing them with your hands until juice is obtained.

Cut the tomatoes into thin halves, and the cucumbers into strips.

For the sauce, mix in the proportions 1 to 1 mayonnaise with ketchup. Grease them with lavash, 1 cm apart from the edges of the sheet.

Place cabbage with carrots in the bottom layer. Sprinkle chicken on top. For juiciness, pour fillet sauce. Put cucumbers with tomatoes on top of the meat. If you wish, pour the filling again with the sauce and wrap it in pita bread.

Poultry shawarma with french fries

An original recipe for homemade shawarma with chicken and fried potatoes. It is not intended for storage and should be eaten immediately. Piquant crisp of potatoes and pickled cucumber in the sauce give the dish a new taste.

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Essential Ingredients:

• chicken meat - 500 gr;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• cabbage - 200 gr;
• tomato - 1 pc.;
• french fries - 100 gr;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

• yogurt, sour cream, mayonnaise - 100 g each;
• pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• dill - 2 branches at will;
• salt, curry - to taste.

How to cook:

Grate the cucumber. Garlic squeeze through the press. Mix them with mayonnaise, sour cream, yogurt. Salt to taste and add chopped greens if desired.

Cut the onion into thin rings. To remove the bitterness, sprinkle it with sugar, sprinkle with vinegar and pour boiling water over it.

Cut the poultry meat into pieces of any shape, fry in a pan.

Thinly chop the tomatoes in half rings or circles. Chop cabbage with a cobweb.

Put the filling in the middle of the pita bread: cabbage, tomatoes, hot french fries, onion rings and meat. Pour sauce over everything. Tightly roll pita bread in any way.

Shawarma country recipe

A tasty and juicy way to cook dishes in the open. The smell of smoke, a large number of vegetables make shawarma on coals an unforgettable snack.

Essential Ingredients:

• chicken thighs - 3-4 pcs.;
• bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
• cucumber, tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• cabbage - 200 gr;
• cheese - 100 gr;
• garlic - 1-2 cloves;
• parsley - 3 branches;
• mayonnaise, ketchup - 2 tbsp each. spoons;
• any sauce.

How to cook:

Prepare chicken thighs for marinating. Remove skin from them and remove bones.

Finely chop the garlic. Mix mayonnaise with ketchup, add garlic and salt to them. In this marinade leave the meat from 30 minutes to 2 hours.

Fry the pickled thighs on a fire on both sides using a grill.

Prepare the rest of the products. Grate the cheese coarsely, cut the tomatoes into cubes, finely chop the cabbage. Cut cucumbers with bell pepper into strips, and chop greens.

Mix all vegetables with cheese and herbs in a bowl. Cut the fried meat into cubes and pour into a bowl. Mix everything.

In the center of each pita, put the filling, pour it with any sauce. Roll the shawarma in a convenient way and lightly fry the pita bread on the coals.

Recipes of home-made shawarma from other types of meat

Tasty shawarma can be cooked at home not only from chicken. Pork, beef or lamb bring their taste and aroma to the dish. And sometimes it may take longer to cook from these types of meat than chicken, but the amazing results are worth the effort.

Lamb shawarma with tkemali in pita

The whole essence of the Caucasian dish comes down to aromatic meat with spices in plum sauce. A small amount of products is more than offset by spices and spices.

Essential Ingredients:

• lamb - 800 gr;
• vinegar - 250 ml;
• cinnamon, paprika, nutmeg - 1 teaspoon each;
• cardamom - on the tip of a knife;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• cucumber, tomato - 1 pc.;
• salt to taste;
• tkemali sauce.

How to cook:

It will take a long time to cook shawarma according to this recipe, because lamb takes time to marinate and bake.

First, the meat should be soaked in a marinade to give it softness and juiciness. A piece of lamb should be cleaned of bones, hymen and veins. rinse it, cut into slices in the form of thin steaks. Put them on the bottom of the dishes, pour vinegar. Sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg, paprika, cardamom. Pass the garlic through a press, mix with salt and also add to the marinade. Gently mix lamb with marinade with your hands. Leave it under the lid for 12 hours.

Dry and fry the pickled steaks in a pan. Finished meat cut into oblong pieces. To give it more juiciness, lamb should also be baked in the oven for 30 minutes. 20 minutes under the foil, and the rest of the time without it.

Cut fresh vegetables into slices. Cut each pita in half. Put cucumbers with tomatoes in the middle of the tortilla. Lay the pieces of meat on top. Pour the whole filling generously with sweet and sour tkemali. As a decoration and additional freshness, you can use sprigs of greens or lettuce.

Hearty Shawarma with Pork and Mushrooms

Homemade shawarma in pita bread with pork loin, fried in spices with mushroom julienne, vegetables, herbs and sauce, will be the main dish at any feast.

Essential Ingredients:

• loin - 400 gr;
• champignons - 300-400 gr;
• sour cream - 200 gr;
• cucumber - 1 pc.;
• tomato - 1 pc.;
• cabbage - 250 gr;
• greens - at will;
• sauce - any;
• salt, spices - to taste.

How to cook:

Cut the pork pulp into thin slices. Fry in oil with the addition of your favorite spices and herbs. If desired, the meat can be pre-soaked in a marinade, which will significantly enrich the taste of the finished product.

Cut the mushrooms into plates, lightly fry, and then simmer in sour cream until cooked and the julienne is thick.

Cut cucumbers with tomatoes into thin rings. Chop the cabbage into strips, knead it with your hands.

Put cabbage in the middle of the lavash sauce. Lay cucumber circles on top. Sprinkle vegetables with spicy pork. Put tomatoes on top of the meat, pour the sauce over everything. Wrap the filling in pita bread, which then fry in a pan.

Shawarma sauces: the best recipes

Any idea for cooking shawarma at home will help to implement a special sauce for this dish. Even the vegetarian option will be very appetizing, because a variety of sauces and dressings emphasize the taste of the product, giving it juiciness, pungency and new taste colors, depending on the chosen option. They can be either neutral in taste or with a bright garlic or lemon tint.

The main thing is that the shawarma sauce should correspond to taste preferences and be combined with the filling.

Traditional plain white appetizer sauce. It can be used in any shawarma recipes.

Essential Ingredients:

• kefir - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• sour cream - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp;
• turmeric / saffron - on the tip of a knife;
• black pepper to taste.

How to cook:

Dairy products for this sauce should be taken high fat. Mix sour cream with kefir well. To give them a pleasant yellowish tint, add saffron or turmeric. Pour in lemon juice, add black pepper. Beat everything thoroughly until smooth. Allow the ingredients to brew, and then add the sauce to the shawarma.

A special charm to this sauce is given by the freshness of cucumber and juicy greens. An ideal option that will significantly reduce the calorie content of shawarma.

Essential Ingredients:

• yogurt (nonfat) - 200 ml;
• cucumber (fresh) - 1 pc.;
• dill - 50 gr;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• pepper, salt to taste.

How to cook:

Peel the skin from the cucumber and grate the pulp on the middle side of the grater. Slicing garlic cloves through a press. Rinse greens, finely chop.

Add cucumber, herbs, garlic to yogurt. Season with salt and pepper mixture. Beat all the ingredients thoroughly. Before using the sauce, let it brew a little.

Turkish spicy with tomatoes

Essential Ingredients:

• tomato paste - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• ground black and red pepper - ½ teaspoon each;
• ground coriander - 1 teaspoon;
• dill and cilantro - ½ bunch;
• salt to taste.

How to cook:

Grind the peeled onions with a blender. Grind bell pepper without stem, seeds and partitions with onions.

Fold green leaves without branches in a bowl for vegetables.

Pour in the same olive oil with tomato paste. Grind everything with a blender. Add salt, pepper and coriander to the sauce.

With curry for chicken shawarma

Curry goes well with poultry, so this colorful sauce is often used for homemade chicken shawarma.

Essential Ingredients:

• fermented baked milk - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• curry - ½ teaspoon;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

How to cook:

Turn garlic into a homogeneous grated mass. Mix all dairy products with mayonnaise. Add garlic, add curry, season with salt and pepper. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth.

Lemon and Potato Sauce Recipe

Fanciful for Europeans, but usual for the countries of the East sauce based on lemon juice and potatoes.

Essential Ingredients:

• greek yogurt - 140 ml;
• vegetable oil - 120 ml;
• potatoes - 1 pc.;
• lemon - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 1 head;
• salt to taste.

How to cook:

Grind the peeled garlic. Squeeze juice out of lemon. Peel, wash, boil the potatoes until cooked.

Beat 60 ml of oil with a mixer thoroughly with garlic and lemon juice until white. Add the remaining oil and continue whipping. Pour yogurt, whisk until the mixture thickens.

Mash boiled potatoes in mashed potatoes. Put a few spoons to the sauce and beat. Salt to taste. Insist ready refueling in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. She can not only spread pita bread or water the filling. If you dip in the open end of the finished homemade shawarma, then the sauce will help to understand the subtlety of the oriental taste.

By 10/20/2015

If you, for any reason, are afraid to buy shawarma in the market, do not deny yourself the pleasure, try this interesting Middle Eastern dish. I bring to your attention a recipe for shawarma at home. There are many cooking options. Typically, a shawarma is minced fried meat, fresh vegetables, and sauce wrapped in pita bread. The recipe is easy to execute and does not require much time. The dish is suitable for a quick snack during the day, and for friendly gatherings with the company.

The key to successful preparation of shawarma is sauce and spices, pay special attention to this. Use a variety of seasonings (black pepper, coriander, zira, dill, basil, cilantro and others to taste) - this will give the dish an oriental taste and aroma.

Ingredients

• Pita - 4 pcs.
• Chicken fillet - 400 g
• Peking cabbage - 1/2 pcs.
• Cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - 200 g
• Sour cream - 200 g
• Garlic - 2-3 cloves
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
• Spices, dried herbs - to taste
• Sunflower oil for frying

Step-by-step cooking process at home

1. Prepare the necessary products, wash the vegetables, remove the top leaves of cabbage.



2. Cut the meat into oblong slices. Salt, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice. Marinate it for 15 minutes. (if there is time, leave the meat with spices for an hour).



3. Fry the fillet in a greased pan until cooked. It is important that the brisket is not overexposed on fire, as it will lose its juiciness.



4. Cut the cucumbers into strips.



5. Slice the tomatoes in the same way.



6. Chop the Beijing cabbage (you can replace the white cabbage).



7. The next step is the preparation of the sauce. To do this, mix sour cream with mayonnaise in 1: 1 proportions, add black ground pepper, a tablespoon of lemon juice, dried herbs (dill, basil), squeeze out two or three cloves of garlic.



8. Spread the sauce on pita bread (closer to the edge from which you will begin to wrap), about 2 tablespoons.



9. Spread a quarter of the cooked meat on the sauce.



10. On top of the fillet, add vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage.



11. Pour the sauce and wrap in a tube, gently bending the edges above and below. Pay attention that the pita bread is fresh, because it is difficult to roll the dried so that it does not tear.



12. Before serving, heat the shawarma on both sides in a dry frying pan under the lid. Do not do this in the microwave, as pita bread may not dry out, but rather become sour.



13. Shawarma at home is ready. Bon Appetit!