How to make shawarma at home tasty, fast

2025 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:50

Shawarma (shawarma) is a dish of oriental cuisine that has become a favorite among Russian people because of the speed of preparation, satiety, and excellent taste. Traditionally it is cooked with lamb. But for European people, chicken, pork, and turkey fillings are more often used. In this case, the meat is cooked on a spit in a vertical position on the grill. Such frying clogs the aroma and gives juiciness to the meat. Ready-made pieces of meat are mixed with the vegetable part of the filling, sauces and laid out on pita bread. Such a dish can be tasted either in a restaurant, which is undoubtedly expensive, or bought from street vendors, which is definitely dangerous. But if you know how to make shawarma at home, then you can repeat the cooking process yourself in your kitchen. This will allow you to be sure of the quality of the product. Despite the fact that the roasting of the meat will not be done on the grill, its taste will still be excellent. Let's figure out how to make shawarma at home for three people.

Shawarma products

• 500g meat. You can take chicken, pork, lamb.
• Armenian Lavash or any other thin one. You will need 3 pieces
• 200 g each of fresh ripe tomatoes, cucumbers.
• One large head of onion.
• Mayonnaise, tomato paste, garlic and greens (any to your taste).
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil for frying.

Recipe step by step

1. Before you make shawarma at home, prepare the sauce. Mix an equal amount (3-5 tablespoons) of mayonnaise and tomato paste until smooth. Add 3-4 cloves of minced garlic. Put the sauce to harden in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
2. Stuffing. We cut the meat into small, oblong pieces 1 cm wide. Fry in sunflower oil until the crust is browned. Even if it seems to you that there is not enough oil, you can not add it, otherwise the taste of the grill will not work.



3. Vegetables. Cucumbers with tomatoes cut into small pieces. The onion needs to be finely chopped. Greens can be chopped in a blender for uniformity or cut into pieces that are convenient for you to eat.
4. Put the meat on the pita bread first, then the vegetables. We fill them with greens. Drizzle all this with sauce, which we distribute evenly.



5. Twist pita bread into a roll. It is important to do this carefully, because the pita dough is thin and can break through.

If your microwavehas the "Grill" function, then the finished rolls can be left in this mode for 10-15 minutes. This will allow all the ingredients to soak into the sauce, to form a single flavor composition. And what is shawarma without adjika? How to make adjika at home? Very simple and delicious.

Spicy adjika recipe with traditional ingredients

When preparing adjika, there are no strict rules on the weight and quality of ingredients. Each chef chooses what and how much to add, focusing on their taste preferences. For those who are just trying to cook this dish, I offer a recipe for spicy adjika for shawarma, which you can change to your taste.

Ingredients

• Garlic - 6 cloves.
• Hot green and red pepper - 2 each
• Basil, dill, parsley - a bunch of each greens.

All ingredients must be cleaned of seeds, husks, cut off sticks from greens. Rinse food under running water. You don’t need to cut them into small pieces, just put them in a blender or meat grinder and turn them into a homogeneous gruel. Everything, adjika is ready. You can serve appetizing, tender, warm shawarma to the table along with spicy, invigorating adjika. We hope you learned all about how to make shawarma at home!