Shawarma recipe

Shawarma is one of the main fast food dishes. Shawarma bought on the street or in a restaurant may not always be tasty or healthy. In addition, it is not known what it is made of and whether all the norms were met during its manufacture. Therefore, the best option is to cook shawarma at home.

How to wrap shawarma

One of the main nuances when making shawarma is wrapping methods. This is necessary so that the dish does not fall apart and to make it easier to eat. There are several ways, the simplest is to unfold a sheet of pita bread, grease with sauce, lay out the filling on the left side, leaving a little space on the bottom and left. Now the left edge is taken and, having made two turns, the filling is wrapped. After that, the bottom of the pita is wrapped, preventing the filling from falling out and, then the shawarma is wrapped from left to right until the end of the pita.

A variant like the first - only in this case the top of the shawarma is also closed, a completely closed dish is obtained. This can be done if you want to lightly fry the dish in a pan after wrapping, the filling will not fall out of the pita bread.

Method "envelope" - in this case, the lavash is divided into two parts, one of them is laid out with the sauce and the filling slightly lower than the center of the sheet. Now the bottom edge of the pita bread needs to be raised to the center, by about half of the filling laid out. Further, the right and left edges are also wrapped towards the center with a filling. The last step is to fold the top edge of the sheet. As a result, you will get a small envelope with a filling.

And one more way - a sheet of pita bread is smeared with sauce and the filling is laid out in the center. Further, the lateral edges of the pita bread are pulled up to the middle of the sheet. After that, the bottom edge of the sheet is bent one turn to close the filling. After that, the shawarma is folded into a tube.

Shawarma sauce recipe

In fast food places, ketchup and mayonnaise are most often put in shawarma. Less often sauces made from fermented milk products. For homemade shawarma, it is better not to use only mayonnaise with ketchup - the dish will be simple and ordinary. It is better to make a special shawarma sauce using herbs, vegetables, spices and other ingredients.

The lightest classic

What you need:

• half a spoon sour cream, fermented baked milk and mayonnaise;
• a quarter of a lemon;
• granulated sugar, salt, spices, pepper;
• 3 cloves of garlic.

How to do:

1. Combine liquid products in a bowl, mixing thoroughly.
2. Squeeze lemon juice there.
3. Chop the garlic with a press and, pressing down with a spoon, mix with spices.
4. Transfer the mixture to the liquid ingredients and beat everything with a blender.
5. Leave on for 2-3 hours.

Yoghurt sauce

What you need:

• a few olives;
• a pinch of pepper mixture;
• 100 ml natural yoghurt without additives;
• 1.5 tablespoons of mustard;
• 3 tablespoons of lemon juice;
• a little oregano.

How to do:

1. Mix spices, lemon juice, a little salt, mustard.
2. Dilute the mixture with yogurt and beat with a blender.
3. Chop the olives finely and add to the sauce.

Tomato sauce

What is necessary:

• 60 g tomato paste;
• tomato;
• half bell pepper;
• a pinch of ground red pepper;
• small onion;
• 50 ml of oil;
• cilantro;
• salt, granulated sugar.

How to cook:

1. Pour boiling water over the tomato and peel it. Divide into several pieces and cut into small cubes.
2. Finely chop the onion and fry in oil.
3. Add chopped tomato to the onion, simmer a little.
4. Put the tomato paste, salt, granulated sugar, red pepper. Cook until thick.
5. Finely chop the pepper and mix with tomato sauce, chop everything thoroughly with a blender.
6. Send chopped greens there.

Cucumber dressing

What you need:

• a couple of cucumbers;
• 130 ml mayonnaise;
• a clove of garlic;
• paprika, salt;
• parsley;
• 90 ml sour cream;
• 30 ml lemon juice.

How to do:

1. Peel the cucumbers and grate.
2. Add chopped garlic, spices, sour cream and mayonnaise to the grated mass.
3. Chop greens there and pour in citrus juice. Beat everything with a mixer.

Soy sauce for the dish

What you need:

• 3 garlic cloves;
• 60 g walnuts;
• 160 ml sour cream;
• cilantro;
• a spoonful of lemon juice;
• hops-suneli, salt;
• a spoonful of soy sauce.

How to cook:

1. Grind the nuts, mix with chopped garlic, citrus juice and soy sauce.
2. Grind the herbs, mixing them with spices.
3. Combine the liquid sauce with herbs, add sour cream and whisk everything lightly.

Shawarma with chicken

Summer shawarma with fresh vegetables

What you need:

• pita leaf;
• tomato;
• chicken fillet;
• cucumber;
• Chinese cabbage;
• 50 ml natural yogurt without additives;
• seasonings, salt;
• a clove of garlic;
• sunflower oil.

How to do:

1. Cut the chicken into strips, sprinkle with oil and sprinkle with spices to taste. Fry until golden brown.
2. Cut vegetables into strips, tomato into half rings.
3. Chop the garlic and mix with yogurt and spices.
4. Divide a sheet of pita bread in half, grease with sauce and put the filling on it.
5. Wrap in any way convenient for you.
6. Can be fried Grilled, reheat in a microwave oven.

Winter shawarma

What is necessary:

• 90 g chicken fillet;
• half a pickled cucumber;
• pickled onion;
• 50 g of Korean carrots;
• half a fresh tomato;
• pita leaf;
• a spoonful of sour cream and mayonnaise;
• hop-suneli pinch;
• garlic to taste.

How to do:

1. Cut the chicken, you can boil it, fry it or bake it to your liking.
2. Cut vegetables into strips and half rings.
3. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise, adding chopped garlic, a little salt and spices to taste.
4. Grease the leaf with the sauce that has been infused for 20 minutes, put chicken meat, chopped vegetables, carrots and pickled onions on top.
5. You can add some more sauce over the filling.
6. Wrap and lightly brown, seam side down.
7. You can cut the dish into a couple of pieces before serving and pour the prepared sauce on top.

Shawarma with pork

Cheese shawarma

What is necessary:

• 250 g pork;
• pita leaf;
• cherry tomatoes 5-6 pieces;
• 90 g mayonnaise;
• fresh dill;
• salt, spices;
• garlic to taste;
• 100 g solid cheese;
• half a fresh cucumber.

How to cook:

1. Cut the meat into slices and fry in a pan without oil.
2. Chop herbs, chop the garlic and mix with mayonnaise.
3. Mix the fried meat with the prepared garlic sauce.
4. Grate the cheese, chop the vegetables into strips, divide the tomatoes in half.
5. Lightly grease lavash with sauce, lay out the meat with vegetables, adding grated cheese.
6. Wrap the dish and heat, or fry.

Delicious shawarma

What do you need:

• pita;
• 250 g pork;
• 80 g Korean carrots;
• fresh cabbage;
• tomato;
• half a cucumber;
• 70 ml of mayonnaise and ketchup;
• a couple of garlic cloves;
• 100 g of champignons;
• salt, pepper, barbecue seasoning.

How to do:

1. Cut the meat into strips, fry in a little oil with the addition of spices.
2. Chop vegetables into strips.
3. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry in a little oil. You can add some onions.
4. Chop the garlic and combine with ketchup, mayonnaise, a pinch of salt and any spices.
5. Grease the pita bread with sauce, put the filling, wrap and fry.

Shawarma with beef

Dish with vegetables

What is necessary:

• 200 g of beef;
• tomato;
• pickle;
• pita leaf;
• dried basil;
• 30 ml each soy sauce and olive oil;
• fresh dill and parsley, you can take green onions;
• small onion;
• garlic;
• 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise.

How to cook:

1. Cut the beef into strips, sprinkle with basil, add oil and soy sauce. Put in the cold for 3 hours.
2. Fry the meat in oil for a quarter of an hour.
3. Cut the onions into rings and pour over the soy sauce.
4. Finely chop the vegetables, chop the herbs.
5. Mix chopped garlic with herbs and mayonnaise.
6. Grease the leaf with sauce, lay out the meat, pickled onions, vegetables, pour over the rest of the sauce on top.
7. Wrap and heat.

Shawarma with minced meat

What is necessary:

• pita;
• 100 g of cheese;
• tomato;
• 170 g minced beef;
• fresh herbs;
• bulb;
• a couple of spoons of natural yogurt;
• salt, spices;
• a clove of garlic.

How to cook:

1. Pour oil into a frying pan and fry the minced meat with the addition of black pepper and salt.
2. Grate the cheese, cut the vegetables into strips, chop the herbs.
3. Mix yogurt with spices and garlic.
4. Put the sauce, chopped herbs, minced meat, vegetables, onion on pita bread.
5. Sprinkle with cheese on top, wrap the shawarma and fry in butter.

Open shawarma

Such a dish can be open on one or both sides, and instead of lavash, you can use a Mexican flatbread, or a loaf. And the filling can be meat, fish, sausages, seafood, crab sticks, eggs, cheese, mushrooms and much more.

Lamb dish

What you need:

• fresh cucumber;
• tomato;
• 100 g of lamb;
• 50 g potatoes;
• fresh herbs;
• pita;
• spices, salt;
• garlic;
• a couple of spoons of sour cream.

How to do:

1. Cut the meat into slices and fry in a skillet, adding spices and salt.
2. Make strips of potatoes, fry in a deep fryer.
3. Chop the vegetables into strips.
4. Mix sour cream with spices, chopped herbs, chopped garlic.
5. Put the lavash horizontally, grease with sauce, put the filling in the middle - meat, vegetables, fries, herbs.
6. Fold the pita bread in half and roll it into a tube, there should be one open edge.
7. You can put sauce and fresh herbs in the open end.

Mexican shawarma

What is necessary:

• 100 g smoked chicken breast;
• Mexican flatbread;
• a couple of spoons of canned corn;
• cucumber;
• a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• a spoonful of sour cream;
• 80 g of Peking cabbage;
• 50 g of cheese;
• a spoonful of soy sauce.

How to do:

1. Cut the chicken into slices, the vegetables into strips.
2. Mix meat, corn, vegetables, grated cheese.
3. Mix the sauce, sour cream, spices and mayonnaise.
4. Grease the flatbread with sauce, put the Chinese cabbage on top.
5. Put all the filling in the middle and wrap the edges of the cake inside.

Calorie content of shawarma

The calorie content of homemade shawarma depends on what ingredients are in it. For example, a dish with chicken meat and yoghurt dressing will be about 112 kcal per 100 g. If you take mayonnaise instead of yogurt, then the calorie content will rise to 175 kcal. Fresh seasonal vegetables and herbs have practically no effect on the increase in the calorie content of the dish. Affects cheese, mushrooms, type of meat and type of sauce.