How to make shawarma at home: tips and recipes

How to make shawarma at home?

Oriental cuisine is famous for its spicy taste, spices and a variety of dishes, one of which is shawarma, shawarma in our opinion. This good alternative to a sandwich is very popular all over the world. Different peoples, different recipes and cooking methods, but they all have one thing in common - meat, sauce, vegetables, thin pita bread in which it all is wrapped. Here we will talk not only about how to make shawarma at home yourself, but also how to prepare sauce for it, and how to do it correctly, because many products really spoil this dish, although here it is important to remember that everyone has different tastes. For example, real shawarma does not contain mayonnaise or ketchup, much less mustard. French fries are also not appropriate in this oriental dish, since they will also become soggy from the sauce. If you do not have a special device for frying and heating this product, then a frying pan with a thick bottom can replace it.

How to make shawarma correctly?

So, we take meat, be it chicken, beef, veal or lamb. Any kind will do, but first you should marinate it in your favorite spices, rubbing the meat with them. We also add onions, cut into rings, and greens. Then you should leave the meat in the marinade for at least an hour. It is worth adding white wine or vinegar. Afterwards you should fry it until cooked. And now you can begin the process itself. We will need thin pita bread, pickled cucumbers (not fresh), Korean carrots, cabbage salad or cabbage itself, you can add pickled mushrooms, herbs and diced tomatoes. In addition, we add a special sauce prepared separately. You can add any products, or, on the contrary, exclude them. Place the finished finely chopped meat and other ingredients on the edge of the pita bread. Pour the sauce over the filling, you can sprinkle it with cheese and wrap it first on three sides, and then roll it into a roll. Now put it in a heated frying pan and fry on both sides. Here's how to make shawarma at home correctly. The dish is perfect for a snack at home or at work.

How to make shawarma sauce?

For our dish we will prepare garlic sauce. For it we use homemade mayonnaise, kefir and full-fat sour cream. All this is mixed at a one-to-one ratio. Add crushed garlic, pepper, salt and seasonings, such as curry and coriander, as well as dry herbs to taste. Mix everything thoroughly and leave for at least thirty minutes. The sauce is ready.

And further

So, you have learned how to make shawarma at home. To prepare it on the street, traders use fatty meat, which is completely unsuitable at home. You can take pita - this is an Arabic flatbread, but Armenian lavash can also perfectly replace it. By the way, you can only use it fresh and store it without air; it causes the thin sheet of lavash to dry out and break. You can save it by freezing it. But it’s better to eat shawarma fresh, not to heat it up or store it. But if you still had to heat it up, then do it either in the oven or in a frying pan. The microwave oven is not suitable for this. Cook, experiment and remember the calorie content of the dish.