It is believed that shawarma is a national Turkish dish, but in fact it is cooked in almost all cuisines of the world, especially in Arab countries. The classic Turkish recipe includes roasted lamb, but there are plenty of other variations. If you are a fan of this dish, then you must definitely figure out how to cook shawarma at home. Choose your recipe - and then you will always be able to please yourself and your family with this hearty treat.

Step-by-step recipes for homemade shawarma

Absolutely any person will be able to make such a dish. The cooking process does not require special culinary skills and takes a minimum of time. Especially popular is homemade shawarma with chicken in pita bread, as well as options with pork or vegetables. As for the cooking method, baking the dish is allowed in a pan or in the oven.

1. For dishes, it is recommended to take only very fresh pita bread or pita.
2. To make the shawarma juicy at home, pre-fill the meat with marinade. It is best to fry in an ordinary cast-iron skillet, practically without adding oil. This will simulate the effect of a vertical grill.
3. If the pita bread does not wrap well, try sprinkling it lightly with water. Lemon juice will be even more effective.
4. The most delicious home-made shawarma comes with garlic, spicy sauce or a mixture of them.
5. To make a spicy dressing, take ordinary sour cream as a basis, adding garlic, green onion feathers, salted or pickled gherkins to it to taste.
6. To prepare a hot sauce, use a mixture of tomato paste, cilantro, olive oil, lemon, pepper.
7. Any shawarma dressing is best prepared in a blender.

With chicken

Components for two servings of a dish:

• chicken - 400 grams (preferably fillet);
• fresh Armenian pita bread - 2 sheets;
• korean carrot - 150 g;
• tomato - 1 large;
• cabbage (white, red-headed) - 150 g;
• pickled gherkins - 2-4 pcs.;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• favorite grade of sour cream - 3 tbsp. l .;
• spicy mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l .;
• citrus juice (lemon, lime) - 20-30 ml (fresh or canned);
• water - 6 tbsp. l .;
• refined oil (olive) - 2 tbsp. l .;
• curry - 2 tsp;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Step by step recipe:

1. Make a marinade for meat. Mix lemon juice, water, olive oil and spices.
2. Keep the chicken in the marinade for a quarter of an hour, after cutting it into thin strips.
3. Chop the cabbage. Cut the tomato and cucumbers into small cubes.
4. Make the sauce. To do this, mix sour cream with mayonnaise and add garlic. It is allowed to crush or just finely chop. Add a little cucumber to the sauce to let the juice go.
5. When the chicken is ready, fry it in a practically dry and well-calcined pan.
6. Put pita bread on the table and grease them with sauce.
7. Put the meat, and then layers of vegetables: tomato, cucumbers, cabbage, Korean carrots. Top with sauce again.
8. Roll the shawarma and fry on both sides.
9. Serve warm. You can decorate the open part with sauce and sprigs of greens.

With pork

Composition in two servings:

• pita - 2 pcs.;
• pork pulp - 300 g;
• cucumber - 1 large;
• tomato - 1 pc.;
• cabbage - 200 g;
• sour cream - 4 tbsp. l .;
• low-fat mayonnaise - 6 tbsp. l .;
• dill, parsley, cilantro - a small bunch;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• salt and pepper mixture to taste.

Recipe step by step:

1. First you need to know how to deliciously fry pork. First, it must be washed, dried and cut into small strips. Then the meat is pickled for two hours in 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise with salt and pepper. To make it even softer, you can add a few drops of lemon juice.
2. Fry the marinated pork in a skillet in a minimum amount of oil over high heat.
3. Prepare the sauce. Wash all greens, chop them thoroughly. Combine dill, parsley and cilantro with the remaining mayonnaise, sour cream, and crushed garlic. Add a little salt, beat everything with a blender and leave the sauce in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
4. Wash the vegetables. Chop the cabbage, cut the cucumber into strips, and the tomato into slices.
5. Brush pita bread with sauce. Put meat, tomato, cucumber, cabbage on it. Top the sauce again.
6. In a frying pan, fry the shawarma on both sides. It turns out not only amazing in taste, but also very appetizing in appearance, which is perfectly noticeable in any photo. Serve it warm, garnish with a little sauce.

With vegetables

Those who do not know how to cook vegetarian shawarma at home will need the following ingredients in three servings:

• pita - 3 pcs.;
• fresh cucumber - 1 large;
• tomato - 1 large;
• chinese cabbage - 300 g;
• fresh cheese (best Adyghe) - 250 g;
• sour cream or ryazhenka - 150 ml;
• ketchup - 150 ml;
• vegetable oil - a tablespoon;
• ground coriander, curry, salt and pepper - to taste.

How to cook shawarma with vegetables at home:

1. Make a sauce of dairy products, salt, curry, pepper, coriander.
2. Cut the washed cucumber into strips.
3. Dice the tomato.
4. Peking cabbage cut into small strips. Try to use mainly the white part.
5. Mash the Adyghe cheese with a fork and fry in a pan with coriander and a little oil.
6. Pour a little sauce on pita bread and spread.
7. Spread vegetables evenly, then cheese.
8. Roll the shawarma tightly and then heat on both sides in a frying pan without oil. Serve in portioned plates, garnish with greens.

How to properly wrap shawarma in pita bread

If the shawarma is not rolled up correctly, then it will get wet from the sauce, and the filling will simply fall out. This moment plays a very important role, so adhere to these rules:

1. To learn how to fold the dish, put pita bread on the table and sprinkle with water or lemon juice.
2. Smear the sauce, stepping back a few centimeters from the edge.
3. Shawarma will be denser if the meat is spread between two layers of vegetables closer to one of the short sides.
4. When the filling is in place, cover the pita with a small edge, then the side, and then wrap everything in a long one.
5. Always store part of the sauce in order to pour the filling on top.

Video recipes: how to cook home-made shawarma

Do you already understand how popular this dish is? However, if you are still not sure that you know how to cook real shawarma at home, watch the following videos. Thanks to these notes, you will learn how to make a dish that is amazing for yourself and your loved ones, which perfectly diversifies both the everyday and the festive table. Homemade shawarma is a chic alternative to the one that people are forced to buy at kiosks. Eating it is not only incredibly tasty, but also absolutely safe, and cooking is absolutely a pleasure.

A delicious recipe in the oven

In drink

Shawarma with chicken and vegetables

Fry lean meat, make a sauce of sour cream, ketchup and mayonnaise with seasonings and garlic, mix with a salad of vegetables. Wrap everything in round Arabic cakes, first cutting them in half and put in the oven. This is a world snack called shawarma, and also cooks shawarma with chicken, beef or lamb. But she is wrapped in a thin Armenian pita bread, which can be round or rectangular. Only this is their difference.

When it comes to sauce, these snacks become a real highlight with that incredible and familiar taste, because of which everyone loves shawarma and shawarma. As for the filling, in Russia it is prepared using various combinations of vegetables. It uses cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, Korean carrots, herbs, sweet peppers.

Recipe 1

This is a classic version of shawarma at home, with a calorie content of 250 kcal.

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of pita bread.
• Chicken fillet - 250 grams.
• 2 medium bell peppers.
• 1 tomato.
• 4 pickled pickled gherkins.
• 1 large carrot.
• Onions - 1 head.
• Seasoning hops-suneli, curry.
• Ketchup, sour cream, mayonnaise.
• Pepper, salt, sunflower oil for frying.

Shawarma recipe step by step:

Shawarma sauce:

To prepare the gravy, you need to take two tablespoons of sour cream, ketchup and mayonnaise. To these ingredients add suneli hops, curry, salt and chopped garlic. To mix everything.

Shawarma assembly recipe:

Pita bread needs to be cut into four parts. Spread the sauce on each flat cake. Next, put the meat, pepper, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, cilantro and cilantro on top of the stuffing - again the sauce.

To understand how to wrap shawarma correctly, you can see the photo above and the next video. First you need to wrap the rounded edge and sides, then twist it as if rolling a rolling pin. Then fry them in a dry pan on both sides. With 1 pita bread you will cook four crispy and incredibly delicious shawarma.

Recipe 2

An appetizer with Korean carrots, in comparison with the previous one, will have a more spicy taste.

Ingredients:

• Pita - 1.
• Chicken fillet - 150 g.
• Fresh cabbage - 100 g.
• Korean carrots - 100 g.
• Tomatoes - 1.
• Pickles - 4 pieces.
• Onion head - 1.
• Salt.

Sauce Recipe:

1. Take 3 teaspoons of ketchup, mayonnaise and sour cream.
2. Add finely chopped garlic, salt and seasoning.

How to cook shawarma in stages, a recipe with a photo:

The secrets of a delicious snack

Cooking shawarma at home is easy and fast, each recipe is simple and includes a set of available products. The result is a funky snack, indispensable for picnics.

1. The main ingredient in the second recipe is Korean carrots. But if it is not, then use seasoning hops-suneli, curry and garlic.
2. Grind the meat with a knife or make minced meat from it. For shawarma, beef, lamb, turkey, sausage, fried or smoked chicken are suitable.
3. Hard cheese, which, as an option, is included in the second recipe in an amount of 200 g gives the snack softness and juiciness.
4. At home, shawarma is dried in a frying pan or in the oven, and in nature this appetizer is cooked on the grill, barbecue or an open fire. Compared to the usual kebab, this is the best option for a company with children, as there are healthy vegetables in the shawarma.
5. Wrap meat stuffed in pita bread, Arabic cake or tortilla. At the same time, they should not be too thin, otherwise the snack may fall apart, as the filling due to the tomato and sauce is very juicy.

Surely, many first learned about shawarma with the mass appearance on the streets of our cities of kiosks in which they immediately prepared and sold this dish. Convenient, quick snack and in addition very tasty.

I also tried shawarma from a kiosk for the first time in the nineties, but in those days there were a lot of jokes about these stalls and cooking shawarma, so the attitude to it was twofold and sometimes preference was given to pies with potatoes.

In one of the magazines, I saw a shawarma recipe and decided to try at home to make this fast food myself.

I did not regret the time spent, my expectations were met, since this dish, I will not say that often, but periodically appears in my diet.

I tried to cook it with different meat, but the most popular was shawarma with chicken and lamb. The beef had to cook longer and turned out a bit dry, and the pork was probably a bit greasy, but this is an amateur and you can experiment. You can use meat of turkey, duck. I will say right away that I did not try this composition and will share with you recipes for cooking with lamb and chicken.

First, what is shawarma? Pancakes with meat ate? It remotely seems that only instead of pancake is Armenian lavash, and instead of minced meat, fried meat with fresh vegetables and sauce.

Pita bread is better to buy ready-made and it is Armenian, it is thin, does not dry out quickly and fits perfectly.

If you don’t have the opportunity to buy it, you can quickly cook it yourself - pour 300 g of wheat flour into a bowl, make a deepening in the middle, pour 75 to 80 grams of hot water, salted with half a teaspoon of salt.

Stir the dough with a mixer and let stand a little.

Roll the dough into thin pancakes and fry on both sides in a hot pan for 15 to 20 seconds. It is better to fry pita bread in a pan with non-stick coating, so as not to use oil. From this test you will get 6 pita breads.

It is best to cut vegetables like this - tomatoes and cucumbers into small cubes, and cabbage, not a long straw.

The meat before roasting should be marinated, this gives additional taste.

  Homemade Shawarma - Lamb Recipe

First, prepare the marinade for meat, for this we mix 2 - 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil with 4 - 5 tablespoons of soy sauce, add a little apple cider vinegar, and one tablespoon of pepper mixture

For the shawarma itself you will need -

• Armenian (thin) pita bread - 6 pcs.
• Lamb flesh - 600 g.
• Fresh cucumbers and tomatoes - 3 each.
• Cabbage 200 g
• Sour cream, kefir and mayonnaise - 4 tbsp each. l
• Garlic - 4 cloves
• Dill, parsley and seasoning to taste - ground pepper, coriander, salt.

Cut the lamb pulp into steaks, pickle, smear and water the sauce. Allow him to stand for at least 1 hour. After that, fry it in a grill or in a frying pan in oil.

When ready, cut it into small pieces.

In a cup, cook vegetables, after cutting and mixing with seasonings and salt.

To grease pita bread, make a sauce by mixing kefir, mayonnaise, sour cream, squeeze garlic into it and add finely chopped greens.

Now the fun part. You need to roll pita bread.

Lay the pita bread on the table, grease it with a thin layer of the cooked sauce, put a layer of chopped vegetables, a layer of meat closer to one edge, add a little sauce between the layers and roll it into a tube, folding the edges inward (approximately, like pancakes with meat).

Lay in a pan, lightly fry without oil.

Shawarma is ready - delicious and nutritious.

  Delicious Chicken Meat Shawarma

To make this recipe, take:

• Armenian lavash - 4 pcs.
• Chicken meat (breast) - 300 g.
• Fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• Fresh cucumbers - 1 pc.
• White cabbage - 200 g.
• Ketchup - 5 tbsp. l
• Mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. l
• Kefir - 5 tbsp. l
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Onion 1 head
• Vegetable oil, salt, seasonings - according to your taste preferences.

We start cooking.

Wash the chicken meat and cut into small pieces.

Cut the onion, fry it in oil in a pan until transparent.

Add the pieces of meat, pepper, salt and fry until cooked for about 7-10 minutes.

We make a cabbage salad, for this we cut the cabbage into strips, mix in a bowl with mayonnaise.

Separately cut thin slices of tomatoes and cucumbers.

We make two sauces - red, from ketchup with seasonings and white, from 4 tbsp. l mayonnaise and kefir with crushed garlic.

Expand pita bread on the table, coat each half with your sauce (one red, one white).

On the red half put a cabbage salad, next to it are slices of fried meat with onions and top with tomatoes and cucumbers.

Turn the edges of the pita bread inward and wrap it like a pancake.

Lay in a pan and lightly fry without oil.

Bon Appetit!

Everyone knows this dish from oriental cuisine. For once, everyone bought shawarma in tents. There are several varieties of shawarma - meat with vegetables in pita or meat with vegetables in thin pita bread. Someone seems more familiar with the first option, someone loves only the second.

It is believed that real shawarma, a traditional Turkish dish, is a strongly fried lamb mixed with salads, wrapped in pita.But outside the eastern countries, lamb is not so often used for food, so for shawarma you can also take meat of other varieties - chicken, pork, veal, turkey, and beef. It all depends on your personal preferences. Of course, in eastern countries they choose meat only in accordance with traditions, and they prepare this dish in a slightly different way than we are used to, but in general the technologies are approximately the same.

Cooking shawarma at home is not difficult at all, we hope our tips and the recipe will help you.

Shawarma Stuffing

A few secrets of cooking

Cooking toppings sauces

Turn the shawarma from pita bread

Homemade Shawarma Recipe in Pita Bread

Ingredients:

Each of us has eaten shawarma at least once in a lifetime. They cook it mainly in tents, the whole process can be tracked right on the spot. But if you wanted to cook this oriental dish yourself, then a number of questions arise. We will gladly share the secrets of cooking shawarma.

Shawarma is different when the filling is wrapped in pit or lavash. The filling may also differ: only meat, meat with vegetables or only vegetables can be put inside.

  How to make shawarma - about toppings and sauce

The main ingredient in shawarma is meat. In addition to it, you can wrap finely chopped cabbage, cucumbers (preferably salted) and tomatoes, as well as lettuce and even mushrooms in lavash. It all depends on taste preferences.

Some gourmets want to see in their shawarma only meat and a little sauce and nothing else. By the way, about the sauce - there should be a lot of spices, and the sauce itself can be prepared from various ingredients. It goes well with meat sour cream and hard cheese. From these components, you can cook a delicious sour cream sauce, as well as garlic. You can add mayonnaise, mustard and even ketchup instead of sauce in shawarma.

Shawarma will turn out very tasty if you put a little chopped fresh herbs in the meat, it can be not only dill, but also parsley, onion feathers and basil. If you cook shawarma for yourself, then you can make any filling that you like best.

  How to make shawarma - make sauce

• Delicious shawarma is obtained with garlic sauce. It is prepared simply, you need to mix a little sour cream with chopped garlic, add chopped herbs and slices of pickled cucumber.
• If you want the shawarma to be spicy, then you need to mix olive oil, lemon juice, adjika and homemade tomato paste, add a little fresh chopped cilantro.
• The sauce should be homogeneous, so it’s easier to grind all the ingredients in a blender bowl, and then put as much as you like into the filling.
• If you want to cook shawarma, as in a stall, then we recommend making both sauces, but do not mix them together, but add in portions.

  How to roll shawarma

It’s most common to cook shawarma from ordinary thin pita bread, so that it looks like the one sold in stalls. Sauce does not flow from it, and meat juice (or vegetable) also remains inside. For this to happen, you need to master the technique of folding pita bread.

How to do it:

• prepare a table, lay on it a thin sheet of pita bread;
• from the edge you need to step back a little and grease the entire pita bread with the prepared sauce (one or two at once);
• the filling should be put on top: first vegetables, then meat, pour sauce at the end;
• you need to wrap it up like this: cover the filling with the short part of the pita bread, then wrap the side parts towards the center, and then you can roll the pita bread into a roll.

  How to make shawarma

Prepare these products:

• thin pita bread - 1 pc.;
• pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
• chicken breast - 1 pc.;
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp;
• cilantro or parsley - to taste;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• olive oil - 1 tbsp;
• water - 3 tbsp .;
• seasoning, as well as salt - to taste;
• sauce of your choice: garlic or spicy.

Cooking Shawarma:

• We make marinade from lemon juice, salt and spices, water and oil. The components were mixed and left aside.
• Cut the chicken fillet into thin slices, put in a bowl with marinade, mix, leave for 15 minutes.
• It is best to take onions red, cut into thin rings. Cucumber also needs to be cut into thin slices, cilantro or parsley - chopped.
• First, heat the oil in a pan, then fry the chicken fillet over medium heat. The meat should be well-done and juicy inside.
• We lay the pita bread on the table, grease it with sauce, spread the onion first, then the cucumber, then the meat. Top the filling with sauce, crush with chopped herbs.
• Tightly roll the thin pita bread so that the filling does not fall out, and then carefully fry the pita bread on each side in a frying pan without oil.