What you need to make shawarma at home. Shawarma simple recipes

Hi all! If you are looking for a special, delicious recipe for making shawarma at home, then our article is for you.

Many tasty and healthy dishes in Russia came from Eastern and Arab countries, and one of the many recipes is shawarma. Surely many people learned about the existence of this amazingly tasty dish due to the massive appearance of kiosks and cafes on the streets of your city that sell ready-made shawarma.

The so-called “shawarma” is very popular because it can be a quick and satisfying snack. And the most convenient thing is that you don’t have to buy it in stalls and kiosks, but can prepare it at home, without spending a lot of time and money. Especially if it's vegetable season!

Shawarma is a quickly prepared dish with hot meat filling and vegetables wrapped in pita bread. It is considered a fast food dish, but by preparing shawarma at home, you can make sure that it turns out not only satisfying and tasty, but also healthy.

Shawarma exists in several forms, and homemade shawarma is also prepared quickly and does not require much time. In addition, the filling can be changed at your own discretion. Shawarma is usually made from lamb, chicken, veal, or in non-Muslim countries, pork. The meat is fried vertically on the grill and as it cooks, it is cut off and used for filling. In addition to meat, vegetables (and sometimes fish and fruits), cucumbers (fresh, salted or pickled), tomatoes, carrots (either Korean or just fresh), potatoes, cabbage, onions are used, and all this is seasoned with different sauces.

Ingredients:

• cabbage - 150 gr;
• carrots - 1 piece;
• meat (beef) 300-400 g;
• onion - 1 piece;
• parsley - 50 gr;
• not a lot of mayonnaise and ketchup;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• vegetable oil - 3-4 tbsp;

Ingredients for making the sauce:

• sour cream - 150 gr;
• garlic 1-2 cloves;
• dill, parsley - 30 g each;
• salt and pepper - to taste;

You can bake lavash yourself. Also at home with minimal time investment. And if it’s a quick fix, then it’s easier, of course, to buy it ready-made in the store. The main thing is to make sure that it is not burnt or torn. Because when you wrap it, there is a chance that the sauce will leak through cracks or overdried pita bread.

Ingredients for lavash:

• flour - 1 cup:
• egg - 1 pc;
• not much milk or water;

Homemade shawarma

1. Pour flour into a bowl, add salt. Make a hole in the middle and pour the egg into it, mix the flour with the egg and gradually pour in milk or water and mix. Knead the dough in a cup, then place it on the table and continue kneading. When the dough is ready, let it rest for 20-25 minutes and cover it with a towel.

2. Divide the finished dough into several circles and roll out each piece to 2 mm. Bake in a dry, oil-free frying pan for 1-2 minutes on each side.

3. For the filling, cut the meat into slices and fry it in a frying pan in vegetable oil.

4. Thinly slice the onion into half rings, cut the cucumbers into thin strips, grate the carrots on a Korean carrot grater and cut the cabbage into thin strips.

5. Make the sauce. Mix sour cream with chopped garlic and dill, salt and pepper to taste.

6. Place the baked pita bread on the table and spread with sauce, place the filling on top of the sauce and sprinkle with parsley. And add a little mayonnaise and ketchup. Wrap the shawarma as in the photo

Bon appetit!

Recipe 1. Cooking shawarma with chicken (simple classic recipe)

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet (breast) - 300 g;
• fresh cabbage - 1/6 head;
• pickled cucumbers 2-3 pcs;
• sour cream butter;

Preparation:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and fry in butter.

2. Chop the cabbage into strips, squeeze it with your hands and add salt.

3. Peel the pickled cucumbers and cut into strips.

4. Lay out the pita bread on the table and begin to lay out the filling, first add a layer of cabbage, then add a layer of meat.

Pour sour cream on top and place a layer of pickled cucumbers on top of the sour cream.

5. Wrap the shawarma, tucking the ends of the pita bread inside.

6. Place the wrapped shawarma in a frying pan and heat it up, press the shawarma one by one so that it becomes slightly flat, do this on both sides.

Bon appetit!

Recipe 2. How to cook shawarma (shawarma) at home with sausage

Shawarma, shaverna, shawarma - whatever they call this dish. It would seem like the most common combination of pita bread, meat and vegetables, but how delicious!

This shawarma is prepared in thin Armenian lavash, which you can buy in a store and can easily be prepared with your own hands. As a rule, it is prepared with meat, but meat can also be replaced with boiled or smoked sausage.

Ingredients:

• thin lavash - 1 piece;
• two processed cheeses;
• 100 grams of watercress;
• 100 grams of boiled or smoked sausage;
• fresh tomato;
• 100 grams of ketchup;
• fresh cucumber;
• bell pepper pod;
• 100 grams of mayonnaise;

Preparation:

Place a sheet of lavash on the table. Combine ketchup with mayonnaise and grease the pita bread.

Wash the lettuce leaves, wipe with a paper towel and place in the center of the pita bread.

Wash the tomato and cucumber and cut into small pieces in the form of strips, and place in a layer on lettuce leaves.

Remove the stem and seeds from the bell pepper, cut into thin strips, and place on a layer of tomatoes and cucumbers.

Cut the sausage into strips and place in a layer on the pepper.

Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and place it in a layer on the sausage.

Wrap the pita bread, put it in a frying pan and fry on both sides until golden brown.

Recipe 3. How to cook shawarma at home in pita bread with pork

Ingredients for the sauce:

• several cloves of garlic;
• dill and parsley;
• mayonnaise;

Preparation:

Squeeze the garlic into a cup, add finely chopped herbs, pour mayonnaise over everything and mix.

Ingredients:

• lavash - 1 piece;
• pork meat - 300 gr;
• Chinese cabbage;
• fresh cucumber;
• fresh tomato;
• cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• several cloves of garlic;
• dill and parsley;
• vegetable oil;

Preparation:

1. Cut the pork meat into small pieces and fry in a frying pan without vegetable oil, fry for 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly. This way you can simulate the effect of vertically frying meat. Mix the fried meat with the prepared sauce.

Do not add any spices to the meat; everything you need will be in the sauce.

2. While the meat is soaking, cut the Chinese cabbage into strips, grate the cheese and cucumber, and cut the tomato.

4. Wrap the shawarma and fry on both sides in a hot frying pan without oil. Do not fry, just warm!

Bon appetit.

Recipe 4. Cooking shawarma without chicken (step-by-step recipe with photos)

Ingredients for the sauce:

• garlic;
• mayonnaise - 6 tbsp;
• ketchup - 6 tbsp;

Mix ketchup and mayonnaise, add finely chopped garlic to the mixed ketchup and mayonnaise.

Ingredients for shawarma filling:

• lavash - 2 pcs;
• hard cheese or suluguni - 200 gr;
• fresh white cabbage - 100 g;
• Korean carrots-100 gr;
• onion - 1 piece;
• fresh tomatoes;
• fresh cucumbers;
• ketchup;
• parsley and dill;

Preparation:

1. Place a sheet of lavash on the table and spread with ketchup.

2. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater or cut into cubes.

3. Add a little sauce.

4. Chop the cabbage into strips, add salt and mash with your hands (to release the juice), lay in a layer on top of the cheese.

5. Place a layer of Korean carrots on top of the cabbage layer.

6. Cut the cucumber not too finely and place it in a layer on top of the carrots. Cut the onion into half rings and place on the cucumber.

7. Cut the tomato into small pieces.

8. Wrap the shawarma and fry it in a dry frying pan so that the cheese melts. And all the delicious shawarma is ready for consumption.

Bon appetit!

Recipe 5. Simple shawarma recipe with duck (instead of chicken)

Ingredients:

• duck meat (boiled) - 200 g;
• champignons - 200 gr;
• sour cream - 2 tbsp;
• butter - 50 g;
• greens - 4 sprigs;
• fresh or salted cucumber - 1 piece;
• Korean carrots - 50 gr;
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp;
• ketchup - 2 tbsp;
• lavash - 2 pcs;
• vegetable oil for frying;

Preparation:

1. Boil the duck meat in advance in salted water, with a bay leaf.
2. Wash the champignon mushrooms and cut into thin strips, place in a frying pan, add salt and cover with a lid, when the mushrooms give up their juice, remove the lid and fry until all the liquid has evaporated, add sour cream and chopped herbs. Simmer for two minutes.

3. Cut the cucumber into slices and place next to the prepared Korean carrots.

4. Take one part, pour mayonnaise, ketchup and distribute over the entire surface of the pita bread. We put the filling on the pita bread: fried duck meat, mushrooms, Korean carrots, cucumbers.

5. Wrap the shawarma and place it in a plate on a lettuce leaf.

Bon appetit!

Real shawarma sauces like in stalls (5 sauces)

At the moment, there are a huge number of sauces and each chef has his own special sauce recipe. Some people add their own special ingredient to the sauce to add a piquant taste - parsley, dill or basil and many other herbs.

Classic shawarma sauce recipe

Ingredients:

• sour cream - 100 gr;
• kefir - 100 gr;
• mayonnaise - 100 gr;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• black pepper - a pinch;
• red pepper (to taste);
• salt;

Preparation:

1. Mix sour cream, kefir and mayonnaise, mix thoroughly. And add crushed garlic, salt and pepper to taste.
2. Let the sauce sit for 15 minutes.
3. Add herbs (parsley and dill) to the sauce to your taste.

The sauce according to the classic recipe goes very well with any type of shawarma.

Recipe 1. Sauce without mayonnaise (spicy garlic)

Ingredients:

• kefir - 1 glass;
• egg yolks - 4 pcs;
• mustard - 2 tsp;
• garlic - 1 head;
• vegetable oil - 1/2 cup;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• black pepper - 1/2 tsp;
• red pepper - on the tip of a knife;
• parsley - 1-2 sprigs;

Preparation:

1. Beat the yolks with mustard and kefir, add salt, pepper and mix everything thoroughly.
2. Continuing to beat, add vegetable oil in a thin stream. Add finely grated or crushed garlic.
3. Leave the sauce in the refrigerator for 60 minutes. Before use, add finely chopped dill.

This sauce is served with shawarma with chicken or beef.

Sauce 2. With mayonnaise (classic + suneli khmeli)

Ingredients:

• fermented baked milk;
• sour cream;
• mayonnaise;
• lemon;
• garlic;
• khmeli-suneli;
• black pepper;
• sugar;
• salt;

Preparation:

1. Mix the three main ingredients of the sauce, pour fermented baked milk into a deep plate, put sour cream and mayonnaise in the fermented baked milk. Mix everything thoroughly.
2. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and the same amount of sugar.
3. Squeeze 1/4 lemon into the sauce.
4. Crush 8-10 cloves of garlic and add to the sauce, mix everything thoroughly.
5. Add 1/2 tablespoon of khmeli-suneli seasoning and the same amount of black pepper.

Khmeli-suneli seasoning is well suited for meat and fish and is used in Georgian cuisine.

Sauce 3. Sour cream sauce

Ingredients:

• fresh sour cream - 100 gr;
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• basil - 1 tsp;
• salt and pepper to taste;

Preparation:

1. Pour the sour cream into a deep bowl, mix with mayonnaise and squeeze out the garlic.
2. Season with salt and pepper and add basil and finely chopped herbs.

Sauce 4. Garlic-yogurt

Ingredients:

• 1 glass of unsweetened yogurt;
• 1/2 head of garlic;
• 5 tbsp. olive oil;

Preparation:

Peel the garlic and crush, blend with yogurt, then add butter and blend again. Add salt to taste and add herbs.

Sauce 5. Red tomato sauce for shawarma

Ingredients:

• tomato juice - 1 glass;
• tomato paste - 3 tbsp;
• onion - 1 piece;
• bell pepper - 1 piece;
• fresh tomato - 1 piece;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp;
• garlic 3-4 cloves;
• basil, cilantro;
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp;
• black pepper - 1/2 tsp;
• coriander - 1/2 tsp;
• salt to your own taste;

Preparation:

1. Peel the onion and remove the seeds and stem from the bell pepper. Scald the tomato with boiling water and remove the skin. Add tomato paste, grind the vegetables in a blender into a paste.
2. Add chopped vegetables to tomato juice. Squeeze the garlic and add seasonings, finely chopped herbs, salt and olive oil.

This sauce can be used for both shawarma and meat.

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Secrets of delicious shawarma

According to one Eastern chef, one of the secrets to delicious shawarma is the use of several types of meat, such as chicken, pork and lamb, which must be soaked in a mixture of Arabic spices before frying.

If the meat is a little dry, moisten it with orange juice during cooking or add a little oil or fat tail fat to the pan while frying. The meat acquires a delicate taste and piquant aroma.

For the sauce, grind the herbs along with garlic and spices, and then mix these ingredients with the base. The sauce will be tasty and aromatic. If you want the sauce not to be pale, add bright paprika, curry and herbs to it. The result will be a very tasty and festive dressing!

Never heat shawarma in the microwave because the pita bread will turn sour in it and lose its strength and taste. The finished shawarma can be additionally coated with sauce on top for juiciness and piquancy.

Everyone knows this dish from oriental cuisine. At least once, everyone bought shawarma in tents. There are several varieties of shawarma - meat with vegetables in pita bread or meat with vegetables in thin pita bread. The first option seems more familiar to some, while others love exclusively the second.

It is believed that real shawarma, a traditional Turkish dish, is deep-fried lamb mixed with salads and wrapped in pita bread.But outside eastern countries, lamb is not so often used as food, so for shawarma you can also use other types of meat - chicken, pork, veal, turkey, 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 somewhat differently than we are used to, but in general the technologies are approximately the same.

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

Shawarma filling

In addition to the main ingredient - meat - tomatoes, onions, pickles, cabbage, lettuce, and mushrooms are added to shawarma. Again, it all depends on personal preference. Some shawarma connoisseurs do not recognize any fillers other than meat and sauce. It is important that various spices are used in this dish - this will add an oriental touch and make the taste more pronounced.

As a sauce, which is also added to the filling, you can use sour cream, cheese (hard or cream), mayonnaise, garlic or sour cream sauce, ketchup, mustard. It’s good to add a lot of herbs to the filling to taste - dill, cilantro, basil, parsley, green onions. If you want to cook shawarma at home, then it depends only on you how complex or simple the filling will be, how many components it will contain and what its taste will be.

A few cooking secrets

Pay attention to the pita bread or pita bread that you plan to use for shawarma. They must be fresh. Dried pita bread is in no way suitable for preparing this dish, because it cannot be rolled without cracks. It is also difficult to put filling into stale pita, as it will crumble and look unpresentable.

In order for your shawarma to be juicy and soft, we recommend marinating the meat first. Lemon juice, kefir, olive oil - any simple marinade will make even the toughest meat tender. It is very important, if you want to get that same shawarma taste, to fry the meat correctly. It is best to use a cast iron frying pan, or a cast iron grill pan.

Before frying, the meat is blotted with a dry towel to remove excess marinade and moisture. Fry it practically without oil in a heated frying pan, stirring constantly until golden brown. It is recommended to lightly fry the finished dish, placed in pita bread or rolled into a lavash roll, in a dry frying pan on both sides.

Preparing sauces for filling

Shawarma with garlic and spicy sauce tastes best. They are very easy to prepare. For garlic sauce, mix sour cream with garlic, green onions and pickled cucumber. And for the spicy sauce, mix natural tomato paste with cilantro, olive oil, lemon juice and adjika.

Grind all the ingredients for the sauces in a blender until smooth and add them to the finished filling in the quantity you like. If you want to make a more traditional dish, then use two of these sauces for the filling. Or add the sauce that you personally like best.

Rolling shawarma from pita bread

In order for the shawarma to be similar in appearance to store-bought and so that meat and vegetable juices do not leak out of it, it is important to learn how to roll it correctly. It is best to unfold the lavash sheet on the table and lightly sprinkle it with water.

We step back a few centimeters from the edge and generously grease the pita bread with one or two sauces. We put the vegetable filling, put the meat on top, and pour the sauce over it. Then we cover everything with the short part of the pita bread, then with the side parts, and at the very end we roll up the roll using the long part of the pita bread.

Recipe for homemade shawarma in pita bread

You can add sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, lettuce leaves, and grated cheese to the filling of this shawarma to taste.

Ingredients:

What could be better than a quick summer snack that you can take with you on a picnic? Today I propose to prepare a universal appetizer known to everyone - homemade shawarma in pita bread. For many, the association with shawarma is quick food from a stall around the corner of dubious quality. But for all lovers of this dish, I’ll tell you how to make shawarma at home.
The advantages of this snack are that it is quick to prepare and easy to carry. Shawarma can be eaten at home at the table, taken with you on vacation in the fresh air, and even consumed on the go. Thanks to the outer shell of lavash, shawarma leaves your hands clean, and the tasty filling saturates the body and quenches hunger. So, stock up on the necessary products and go ahead and cook a delicious dish!

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Ingredients for homemade meat shawarma:

• Meat (pulp) – 300 g
• Cucumbers – 3 pieces
• Cabbage – 200 g
• Thin pita bread – 2 pieces
• Garlic – 2 cloves
• Mayonnaise - to taste
• Salt, pepper, curry - to taste

How to cook shawarma at home

Wash the meat, dry and cut into thin small slices. Then fry the meat with seasoning over medium heat until cooked. Fry until golden brown, just do not dry it out.


Wash the cucumbers and cut into thin strips.


Finely chop the cabbage, shredding only the soft parts of the cabbage leaf. I use regular white cabbage, but you can also make shawarma with Chinese cabbage or red cabbage instead.
In winter, you can replace fresh cabbage with sauerkraut.


Squeeze the garlic through a garlic press and mix together with mayonnaise. Lay out the pita bread, grease it with mayonnaise and garlic.

Place the fried meat on one edge of the greased pita bread. Add two tablespoons of mayonnaise on top.


Then add half the cabbage.


Next, add half of the chopped cucumbers.


Now wrap the pita bread. First you need to tuck the long ends, and then roll everything into a roll, i.e. First we make an envelope, and then we roll the shawarma into a roll.


Do the same steps with the second pita bread. Wrap the filling in the same way.

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Heat a frying pan and lightly fry the finished shawarma in a dry frying pan.


Shawarma is ready! The dish should be consumed immediately. The next day it is better not to leave the shawarma, but to prepare it fresh.

Recipe No. 2. Shawarma from pita bread at home

Shawarma is a Middle Eastern dish consisting of finely chopped meat wrapped with a salad of fresh vegetables in pita bread or pita bread. Due to the speed of preparation, shawarma is considered a fast food dish. It can be purchased at various fast food establishments, as well as in small cafes.

At home, pita shawarma can be easily prepared in your own kitchen. This dish can be considered universal, because you can wrap anything in pita bread - vegetable salad, meat, potatoes, seafood, mushrooms. Moreover, you can also make a dessert from shawarma by filling the pita bread with fresh fruits and berries and topping it with syrup or ice cream. And even if only the name remains of the original dish, no one claims authenticity; the main thing for us is that it turns out tasty and satisfying. And this will happen, because we will prepare sharma with pork, French fries and fresh tomatoes. You can also add fried or pickled mushrooms, cucumbers, cabbage, etc. The more different tastes and aromas, the tastier it will be.

Composition for 2 pcs:

• salt,
• lavash – 1 sheet (large),
• potatoes – 300 g,
• pork – 300 g,
• tomato – 2 pcs.,
• mayonnaise – 100 ml,
• sunflower oil – 150 ml.

Cooking method:

Cut the meat into plates 1.5-2 cm thick, place on a shallow baking sheet or in a baking dish and place in the oven for 20 minutes (temperature 180 degrees).


Peel the potatoes and cut into thin strips.


Melt 150 ml of sunflower oil in a deep, thick-walled frying pan and fry the potato strips in small portions.


Place the finished French fries on a paper towel, then place in a deep bowl and cover with foil or film.
Cut the tomato into strips.

Remove the baked meat from the oven, cool and cut into strips.


Cut a large sheet of pita bread in half. Grease half of one part with mayonnaise.
First lay out the chopped meat in a path, then the potatoes and tomatoes.


Carefully wrap the pita bread, tucking the edges.


The finished shawarma can be fried in a grill pan or baked for 5 minutes in a well-heated oven on a wire rack.
The shawarma is ready, usually store-bought thin pita breads are used for homemade shawarma; in one of the recipes we suggested.


The filling for shawarma can be different. It all depends on your preferences and time of year. In summer you can add more greens and fresh vegetables. In winter, salted vegetables and a variety of ketchups are suitable. You can use any meat for the filling, it can be pork, lamb, or turkey. Chicken meat is popular among us for filling, as it is the fastest to cook. There is also vegetarian shawarma for lovers of this trend.
We offer you several homemade shawarma fillings:

• vegetarian shawarma filling: Korean carrots, chopped cabbage, cucumber, tomatoes, Korean zucchini, sour cream, mayonnaise;
• filling for shawarma with chicken: chopped pieces of smoked chicken, Korean carrots, bell pepper cut into thin long sticks, also chopped cucumber, chopped dill and parsley, pickled onions, mayonnaise, ketchup;
• filling for homemade shawarma with mushrooms: finely chopped and fried mushrooms (oyster mushrooms, champignons), shredded cabbage, chopped cucumbers, finely chopped and fried eggplants, Korean carrots, mayonnaise;
• filling for homemade shawarma with salmon: chopped pieces of lightly salted red fish (salmon, trout), grated hard cheese, chopped tomatoes and bell peppers, mayonnaise.
  I hope you are convinced that preparing homemade shawarma is easy; this dish does not require complex ingredients or a lot of culinary experience. If you are not sure about the quality of shawarma offered in fast food establishments, the best solution is to prepare shawarma at home. I wish you to find your own, the most delicious recipe for homemade shawarma and delight yourself and your loved ones with delicious food!

The classic shawarma recipe has many different options that differ from each other in composition. However, the main ingredient of this dish is meat, cooked in its own juices in a special way. But today there are already vegetarian types of shawarma.

Shawarma, a dish of Turkish cuisine, is traditionally prepared from lamb, but other types of meat are popular here. Most often in our country it is prepared:

• pork shawarma;
• beef shawarma;
• chicken breast shawarma.

However, residents of our country have no longer associated this dish with fast food, as many housewives are starting to prepare shawarma at home. If you use dietary meat and do not add harmful sauces, then shawarma from pita bread and chicken at home photo recipe is an excellent and healthy dish for the whole family.

To make shawarma a real culinary masterpiece, you should familiarize yourself with some cooking secrets.

Cooking features shawarma at home

1. Preparing the filling

The homemade shawarma recipe may differ in ingredients. However, the main component is the meat, which you choose depending on your taste preferences. You can supplement the recipe with a variety of vegetables. Pickled or fresh cucumbers, lettuce and cabbage, fresh or pickled onions, mushrooms and tomatoes go well with this dish.

Various spices and a delicious sauce, for the preparation of which you can use mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard or cheese, will help to add an oriental note to the dish. Garlic sauce is especially popular, as it perfectly complements the spicy taste of meat. For a fresher and richer aroma, you can add some herbs, young onions, cilantro and basil.

1. Cooking process

Homemade shawarma with chicken step by step recipe turns out delicious only if you were able to choose good pita bread. It should be as fresh and soft as possible, since you will not be able to roll dry pita bread without cracks causing the filling to fall out.

In addition, it is worth paying special attention to meat, since the quality of the finished dish depends on its taste characteristics. To make it more tender and juicy, try to pre-marinate it at least a few hours before cooking.

It is advisable to fry the already rolled lavash roll with filling a little in a heated frying pan until a golden crust forms.

1. Sauce

Shawarma, a dish of Turkish cuisine, is best combined with spicy and garlic sauce. To prepare the latter, sour cream, garlic, fresh green onions and a little pickled cucumber are used.

The ingredients of the hot sauce are olive oil, adjika and tomato paste, as well as cilantro for flavor. If desired, you can add a little lemon juice. To achieve homogeneity of the mass, it is better to beat all components in a blender.

If you put into practice all the secrets of preparing this dish, your homemade shawarma recipe will turn into a real culinary masterpiece. If you are not yet confident in your culinary abilities, a shawarma recipe at home with step-by-step photos will come to your aid.

Shawarma is a popular oriental dish of Arab origin. This very tasty dish is prepared from lavash, which is filled with chopped grilled meat with the addition of spices, sauces and salad made from fresh vegetables.

Now this dish occupies a leading position among fast, satisfying “street” food and not everyone can ignore 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; in non-Muslim countries, pork can also be found.

The advantages of shawarma are that it is quick and easy to prepare, it turns out to be very satisfying, and more and more housewives are trying to cook it at home.

An electric grill, offered by manufacturers of household appliances, will help us cook meat. We will also make thin flatbreads - lavash - with our own hands, although supermarkets now offer them in a wide range.

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 preparation:

We prepare lavash - flatbreads for shawarma. Sift the flour into a bowl, add salt, stir. Make a depression in the flour and pour vegetable oil and hot water into it (temperature - 80 degrees), and knead the dough.

Then place the dough on the table and knead some more, do not add any more flour. The dough was kneaded well, it became smooth and does not stick to your hands. Let the dough rest for 20 minutes, wrapped in cling film.

Roll the dough into a sausage and cut into six equal parts. Grease the table and rolling pin with oil and roll out the dough very thin.

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

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

Lavash prepared according to this recipe turns out soft, thin and smells wonderful. Delicious!

To prevent the finished pita bread from getting too dry, store it in cling film.

To prepare the filling you will need the following ingredients:

for the sauce:

• unsweetened yogurt
• garlic
• black pepper
• dried herbs: coriander, dill, parsley, cumin, hops-suneli, curry
• greens: green onions, dill, parsley, basil, cilantro

preparation:

We will fry the pre-marinated meat in a vertical grill. We string pieces of meat onto vertically located skewers; they will rotate around their axis and relative to the heating elements.

Fry the meat for about 10 - 15 minutes. When the meat is browned, turn off the grill. Chop the meat pieces further. The advantage of grilling meat is that during frying, excess fat drains into special cups.

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

Chop the cabbage and carrots into very thin strips, chop the tomatoes and cucumber, chop the parsley. In a large bag, mix cabbage, carrots and add chopped parsley, add salt, sugar and just a little vegetable oil. Tie the bag and shake well several times and leave for a while.

preparing white garlic sauce

Add finely chopped garlic clove with cumin to the yogurt, salt and black pepper to taste. Let the sauce sit for 20 minutes.

The sauce according to the classic recipe goes well with any type of shawarma.

Grease the baked flatbread with sauce, then lay out the cabbage salad with carrots, fried meat, cucumber ribbons, tomato slices, wrap everything up and... Bon appetit!

Delicious shawarma with chicken and Korean carrots

Shawarma using chicken meat is the most common variant 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 preparation:

1. Thinly slice the onion into half rings and start frying in a frying pan in a small amount of oil. Then add chicken fillet cut into small pieces to the onion, add salt, and you can add spices to taste. When meat is fried on onions, the juice does not leak out, and the meat turns out juicy.
2. Try to chop the white cabbage as thinly as possible, place it in a deep bowl, add salt, sugar, a drop of vegetable oil and vinegar, mix gently with your hands, do not crush it too much.
3. Chop cucumbers and tomatoes into strips. Korean-style carrots can be purchased in advance from salad vendors at the market.
4. Lay out the pita bread and layer all the ingredients, starting with the cabbage. Top with homemade ketchup and wrap. Shawarma is ready. Bon appetit!

An appetizing shawarma prepared according to this recipe will turn out juicy, and the carrots will add a touch of spicy flavor.

Appetizing shawarma with sausage and cheese

As a rule, shawarma is prepared with meat, but it can be replaced with boiled, smoked sausage or ham. It will turn out no less tasty and very quickly.

Cut vegetables, sausage and cheese into thin slices. 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 lavash with white sauce, lay out vegetables, sausage and cheese. Pour tomato sauce on top, wrap, and fry in a dry frying pan until lightly browned, so that the filling is well heated.

We have already learned how to prepare white garlic sauce, now we will prepare tomato sauce. Its taste is much superior to regular ketchup. You can add fresh vegetables to it.

Making red tomato sauce

We will need the following ingredients:

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

Preparation:

Cut the onion and tomato into cubes and sauté in a frying pan.

Take a blender and put in it - chopped bell peppers, sautéed tomatoes and onions, 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 is a spicy tomato sauce with a sweetish - spicy taste!

Shawarma in St. Petersburg at home

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

The main criterion by which shawarma differs from shawarma is the shell. For shawarma, use thin pita bread, and for shawarma, half a pita bread.

Hearty vegetarian shawarma with mushrooms

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

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

1. Sort the mushrooms, wash them thoroughly, cut into slices. Place them in a frying pan, add salt to taste and fry in vegetable oil.
2. Wash, peel and cut the onions into rings. Add it to the pan after about 15 minutes from the start of cooking. Fry the dish for about 10 minutes more until the onions acquire an appetizing golden color.
3. Tear lettuce leaves with your hands, and cut tomatoes and cucumbers into cubes.
4. Lubricate the pita bread with white garlic sauce, add lettuce leaves, tomatoes, cucumbers, and fried mushrooms. Top everything with red tomato sauce. Roll the shawarma into a 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 this shawarma served with beer. And although it is called a man's dish, I think women will like it too!

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