How to cook shawarma at home
The predecessor of shawarma is considered to be the one familiar to manyTurkish kebab. It was prepared from fried with spices meat, which was wrapped in a national thin cake, pita, along with the vegetable mixture. Armenia adopted this recipe and made its changes - pita was replaced by lavash, and the name changed to shaverm.
Recipes of flat cakes with a filling very similar toshaurma, there are also in European countries. For example, in Bulgaria it is a dune, in Belgium - pity-durum, in Greece - gyro-pita, in Germany - dener-kebab. In Russia this dish has got already under the name shaurma, and in the majority of inhabitants it associates with street public catering, it is far not always qualitative and safe for health.
The cooking technology is standard: The meat is marinated, the pieces are roasted on a grill skewer, which are toasted in an upright position. When ready, the meat is cut into a tray, mixed with a vegetable salad, spices and sauce are added (usually ketchup and mayonnaise are used in stalls) and wrapped in thin Armenian lavash. However, this shawarma is easy to make on your own at home, using fresh and favorite foods, and the recipes for this dish are different.
Shaurma with chicken in pita bread
Simple ingredients that you can buy in a regular store near the house:
- Thin Armenian lavash - 3 leaves
- Chicken - 500 grams
- Carrots in Korean - 200 grams
- Fresh cucumber - 3 pcs.
- Fresh tomato - 3 pcs.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- White cabbage - a quarter of a small head
- Mayonnaise to taste
- Ketchup to taste
- Spices to taste
- Salt to taste
- Vegetable oil for frying
Cooking process: Chicken cut into pieces and fry in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil and spices, a curry, a mixture of peppers or hops-suneli. Cucumber cut into thin slices. Tomato - plates, cabbage chop straw and mash with salt. Lavash sheets cut in half, grease the entire surface evenly with a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup. For each half lay out the filling, starting from the edge: chicken, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots in Korean, onions. Roll up the pita bread with rolls, bend into the edges. Warm up in the microwave for a few minutes, so that the pita is soaked, and the filling is warmed, and fed to the table.
Shaurma with pork in pita bread
Another way to make shawarma, this time with a juicy pork filling and fresh sour cream sauce. Ingredients:
- Lavash Armenian thin 3 leaves
- Pork 500 grams
- Lettuce or Chinese cabbage - quarter of a head
- Cheese hard - 100 grams
- Fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.
- Dill 50 grams
- Salt and spices to taste
- Sour cream - 200 grams
- Pickled cucumber - 2 pcs.
- Green onion feathers
- Toothed garlic
Cooking process: On a dry heated frying pan fry the pieces of pork until ready, season with salt and favorite spices. For the sauce, chop the very finely salted cucumber, garlic, chop the onion, mix everything with sour cream. Each pita bread sheet is cut into 2 parts and greased with sauce. Cheese grate on a large grater, chop greens finely and sprinkle pita on the whole surface of cheese and greens. Leaf lettuce or Peking cabbage cut large. Cucumbers and tomatoes cut into thin slices. Lay out the lavash meat, on top of vegetables and salad. Gently turn the lavash so that the filling is wrapped up from all sides. To give shaurma soak, you can warm it up in a microwave, and serve it to the table.
Shaurma - hearty, tasty and simple incooking dish. Suitable for a family dinner, and for a festive feast. The filling can be made from any meat with fresh vegetables. Bon Appetit! We sincerely hope that our step-by-step recipes from the photo answered the question of how to cook shawarma at home.
