In stores today you can find not very familiar products, such as pita bread, not everyone knows. Rather, many are familiar with lavash itself, but you don’t remember what to cook from it. Let's find him using it in a recipe for homemade pork shawarma. At cost this will come out much cheaper and more than the purchase option. And the health benefits are solid pluses. Still would! Shawarma with pork is being prepared at home in native cuisine, which means it is safer to eat it: the products are decent and fresh.
The nuance of cooking
Not everyone has a special grill. Perhaps this fact is alarming and affects the determination in cooking shawarma with pork at home. But at the time of the heat treatment of the semi-finished product, the grill in an average kitchen can be successfully replaced with a non-stick pan. On it and fry rolled, prepared shawarma.
Products for future shawarma
Before embarking on practical actions, let's talk about the composition. To implement the recipe for shawarma with pork at home, you must have the appropriate set of products. So many wonderful shawarma will come out of such a quantity. If you need more or less, just increase or decrease mass and weight. So, to cook shawarma with pork at home, take these products:
- 400 grams of pork;
- two pita leaves;
- tomatoes: if you have small cherry - 10-12 pieces, but if ordinary tomatoes - 5-7 pieces;
- one large fresh cucumber;
- 150-200 grams of mayonnaise sauce;
- 1-3 cloves of garlic - optional;
- Beijing cabbage - 1 head of cabbage;
- hard cheese - 150-200 grams;
- fresh dill - to taste.
Meat preparation for shawarma
Wash a piece of pork. We cut it with long medium cubes. Fry in a non-stick pan without using oil. If you have a regular frying pan, then grease it with vegetable oil and fry the pork over low heat until cooked. It can be slightly salted.
Cooking sauce
Next, ennoble the mayonnaise sauce from the store. We will add aroma and taste to shawarma mayonnaise with pork at home. We wash the greens and, shaking off the excess liquid, chop it very finely with a knife. Peel the garlic and squeeze through a special garlic press. Now we mix all the crushed ingredients with homemade shawarma sauce with pork.
Vegetables
We wash all the vegetables in cool water. Drain them with a kitchen towel. Peking cabbage shred. In tomatoes, remove the place from the stalk and also cut them finely. It is enough to divide the cherry into 4-6 slices. Cucumbers cut into medium or thin cubes. Cheese through a medium-sized grater.
Shawarma with pork at home
A step-by-step recipe for prepared ingredients is as follows.
First you need to mix the sauce and meat, and now proceed.
- Step one. We print pita bread and lay them out on a flat surface.
- Second step. We spread cabbage in the middle of the leaf. Distribute to get a flat surface.
- Third step. Lay the meat in the sauce over the cabbage. Flatten again.
- Step number four. Cucumber goes for meat, tomatoes for cucumber.
- Fifth step. Sprinkle the filling with cheese. We do this without stint (for ourselves).
- Sixth step. We cover the sides (right and left) of the future shawarma so that the filling does not fall out. Now we turn the shawarma into the tube very tightly. In principle, everything is ready. It remains to lightly fry. We heat the pan and fry the shawarma on both sides. Bon Appetit!
Shawarma with carrots and onions
Another recipe for shawarma fans. Even if you are still cool about her, after you try the simple but tasty option, you will love her. List of required components:
- Four pita bread.
- Pork - 400 grams.
- One large carrot.
- White onions - 1-2 heads.
- Fresh white cabbage (can be replaced with Peking) - 300-350 grams.
- Ketchup and mayonnaise to taste. Favorite seasoning for cooking meat.
- Salt to taste.
- Mayonnaise to taste.
- Vinegar 9% - two teaspoons.
- Lean oil, without aromatization - as needed.
How to cook
We embody the pork shawarma recipe with the preparation of vegetable ingredients. Washing carrots and three on a coarse grater. We clean the onion and chop the rings or half rings. We also shred cabbage. We place the vegetables in a deep container. Add salt to them. Pour vinegar and a little boiled chilled water. In the marinade, leave the vegetables until the moment we put the filling on the pita.
In the meantime, they will marinate, we will take up meat. Wash it. Dry with paper towels and cut into medium bars. Now we fry the meat in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil and your favorite spices. It is necessary to fry it very well, until cooked and browned.
Getting to the formation of pita bread. Lay out pita bread on a plane. In the middle is a layer of mayonnaise. Then add the pickled vegetables. Finish with a layer of fried meat with spices. We turn the pita bread into a tube, having previously tucked the sides of the product.
Now you can fry in a skillet without oil on both sides. It is possible that such a shawarma is placed in a microwave oven for several minutes. Done!
Almost classic shawarma
Here is a recipe for shawarma with pork, which could be called a classic, if not for replacing chicken with pork. But in general it turns out the most beautiful shawarma. Try it yourself. The necessary components:
- Armenian pita - three sheets.
- A pound of raw meat.
- Fresh white cabbage - 200-300 grams.
- Two medium fresh cucumbers.
- One large onion.
- Two medium tomatoes.
- Sour cream - 4 tablespoons.
- Kefir - 4 tablespoons.
- Mayonnaise (thick) - 4 tablespoons.
- 2-5 cloves of garlic.
- Red and black freshly ground pepper - to taste.
- Salt to taste.
- Spices for making sauce and meat.
Cooking steps
All ingredients are successfully collected. We start to cook.
Rinse the pork. Chop meat with long strips. Now the meat is sent to a deep bowl, and add spices and salt to it. We mix the components and let it brew for at least 15-20 minutes.
Thinly chop the cabbage. Also slightly salted. We wrinkle it with our hands in order to start the process of giving juice back. After this treatment, fresh cabbage becomes softer and juicier.
Vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes and onions - will be prepared as follows. Tomatoes and my cucumbers. Cut out the stem growth point. Now we chop the cucumbers with thin strips, and the tomatoes into cubes. Cubes should not be large. Onions can be cut as you like, but preferably with rings - so beautiful.
Now we make the sauce for future shawarma. We mix sour cream, kefir, mayonnaise sauce, spices and garlic cloves crushed in a press in one container.
The meat was marinated in the meantime. Now fry it in a skillet until golden brown. Add a little oil if you wish.
We form homemade shawarma with pork. Cut each pita into two parts. As a result, the package should make six leaves. Now lay out the first sheet on the surface of the table. Evenly grease the middle with the sauce. A layer of cabbage goes to the sauce, put the meat on the cabbage. Align the components. Cucumbers, tomatoes and onions go for meat. We wrap the shawarma in the form of a roll with the edges bent inward. With each turn of the hands, we lightly press the filling inside the pita so that the product turns out to be qualitatively wrapped. If the shawarma is tightened slightly, the filling may fall out.
In a dry non-stick pan, lightly brown the cooked shawarma. While the first two are flushed, proceed to the formation of the next pair. So until all products pass heat treatment from two sides. Done.