Shawarma is widespread today and is especially successfully used as a quick hot “snack” dish, which can be bought in small street stalls in almost all cities of the world.
It is a tortilla or pita bread, inside of which wrapped sliced meat and vegetables (fresh or canned), seasoned with a rather spicy sauce.
Shawarma purchased from a street vendor has two significant drawbacks.
Firstly, the immoderate popularity of the dish, coupled with a complete lack of the ability to control the quality factor of the ingredients, creates uncertainty among potential buyers about the quality of the offered product.
Secondly, the components of the shawarma corresponding to the classic recipe are considered harmful from the point of view of today's ideas about healthy food.
With this in mind, many citizens are forced to courageously deny themselves the pleasure of eating hot and foul-smelling delicious smelling shawarma on the street. But they can easily cook shawarma at home, replacing harmful products, and get a safe, healthy and tasty dish.
Shawarma recipe at home.
Shawarma at home is very easy to prepare.
The following ingredients are used:
Purchased bread-pita bread. It doesn’t matter which one - Armenian, Azerbaijani, just lavash. It is important that it was a fresh thin (not thicker than thick paper) bread cake of a sufficiently large area.
Meat cooked in your favorite way (fried, boiled, smoked). The choice of meat depends on the preferences of the cook and his ideas about the usefulness of the products. It can be lamb, beef, pork, chicken, turkey. It is better to use a mixture of several types of meat.
Seasonal vegetables. 3-4 types of favorite vegetables that can be fresh or canned. They can be: tomatoes, cucumbers (fresh or salted), onions, cabbage, lettuce, Korean carrots and the like.
French fries made from a single tuber of medium size.
The greens you like.
Hard cheese. It is recommended to use cheese without specific flavors.
Favorite sauce: mayonnaise and its varieties, ketchup, cheese, tartar, mustard, Caesar and so on.
Spices to taste
How to cook shawarma at home.
The meat is cut into neat straws. Vegetables are cut into pieces comparable in size to meat slices. Cheese grated on a coarse grater. Finely chopped greens.
Then spread pita bread. Lay on it potato layers (it should be hot), meat, vegetables, greens. Add spices. You need to be careful with salt, because most likely the participating ingredients will already be salted.
A mixture of sauces and cheese is laid out on top. Pita bread is wrapped in any convenient way so that the filling is not visible.
Then the parcel (future shawarma) is placed on a dry preheated pan and left on high heat for 2-3 minutes. Turn over and repeat heating.
The size of the finished shawarma depends on the appetite and size of the pita, but the optimal size should be considered convenient enough to be placed on the male palm.
Obviously, shawarma at home leaves room for creativity. Therefore, in its manufacture, you can easily get a product that fully satisfies personal taste wishes.
The same is for those who want to turn shawarma into a diet dish. We take potatoes and heavy sauces from the recipe, use boiled chicken or turkey meat, increase the number of vegetables.
Prepared from high-quality and wholesome products, shawarma at home turns into an original dish that replaces breakfast or dinner, a delicious hot meal, which contains a lot of vegetables, diet meat and a very small amount of bread.