For some reason, shaurma (shaverma) received the title of fast food. But in fact, is a complete dish, wholesome, nutritious, come to us from the East.
Initially, shawarma used meat that was cooked on a vertical grill, finely chopped and mixed with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Later he was joined by sauces, the range of fillings increased markedly.
At home, you can make shawarma without a vertical grill, while it will be just as tasty and juicy.
Prepare?
Shawarma at home - general principles of cooking
Shawarma - a roll made of pita with a filling. Any product can be used as a filling, but the most popular is the combination of meat and vegetables. You can use beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb. But if the meat is tough, then it should be slightly repelled and only then cook. You can boil, bake, fry in a pan or grill. Also for shavarmy, you can use the remnants of kebabs.
Fresh and boiled vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, cheese are added to the main ingredient. A special place is occupied by sauces, which add a dish of taste and juiciness. For cooking use mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup, mustard. Various spices and herbs are added.
How to roll shawarma
Leaf of pita is spread on the table. If you make several pieces, then they are also desirable to expand to evenly distribute the filling. Fill shawarma put at a distance of 10 cm from the nearest edge in the form of a rectangle. Then the filling is covered with the same end, the sides are folded inwards and the roll is rolled. It turns out to be closed. If you want to make an open shawarma, then the filling is laid out closer to the side edge and this side is not folded.
Recipe 1: Shawarma at Home with Chicken and Suluguni
Chicken - the most simple and affordable filling for shawarma at home. Prepares quickly and easily. You can use any part - breast or trim with legs. You can also take an ordinary chicken leg, but use only meat, without fat and skin. The number of ingredients for 4 shawarma. Ingredients
• 500 grams of chicken;
• 4 pita bread;
• 150 grams of carrots;
• 200 grams of cabbage;
• some greens;
• 100 grams of mayonnaise and sour cream;
• 2 tomatoes;
• a little garlic (amount to taste);
• 150 grams of suluguni;
• black pepper;
• spices for chicken;
• Korean spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the chicken into small cubes or straws, sprinkle with spices and leave to marinate for half an hour. Then fry in a pan until golden brown. Since the pieces are small, there is no need to cover them, they will be so well done so well.
2. Mix mayonnaise with sour cream, add chopped greens and chopped garlic. Mix the sauce well.
3. Shred carrots straws, add Korean spices, salt and mash with your hands.
4. Cabbage shred arbitrarily, pepper and mix with chopped suluguni cheese.
5. Tomatoes cut into cubes.
6. Spread sheets of pita on the table. Lubricate the sauce. About four spoons of the mixture should remain.
7. We lay out a strip of cabbage with cheese.
8. Put a layer of carrots and tomatoes on top.
9. At the end lay out the fried chicken. Lubricate the top with the remaining sauce.
10. We turn off shawarma. How this is done is as described above and fry on both sides in a frying pan.
Recipe 2: Shawarma at home with pork
Of course, the use of pork for the Asian dish is not typical, but why not? Unlike beef, the meat is juicier, softer and remarkably suitable for rolling into pita bread. A spicy sauce will give the dish a special taste and aroma.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of pork without fat;
• 2 pita bread;
• spices;
• one cucumber;
• greenery;
• 200 grams of Chinese cabbage;
• 10 cherry tomatoes;
• 100 grams of any cheese.
For the sauce:
• 100 grams of mayonnaise;
• 3 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• spoon of paprika;
• garlic clove;
• half a lemon.
Cooking
1. Cooking the sauce. To do this, just mix all the ingredients, add lemon juice.
2. Cut the pork into cubes, fry in a pan or grill until cooked. Then we shift to the bowl and mix with half of the mayonnaise sauce.
3. Cut Beijing cabbage arbitrarily, cucumber into strips. Add the greens and mix the resulting salad. 4. Cherry tomatoes are cut into 4 pieces, cheese just three.
5. Fold the pita breads, grease with sauce, lay out a strip of cabbage salad with cucumber. Salt a little, pepper.
6. Top lay the pork in the sauce.
7. Sprinkle with cheese and stack cherry tomatoes.
8. Fold the pitas. Schavermu can be used as a fry or in a frying pan.
Recipe 3: Shawarma at home with fish
For fish shawarma, we will use ordinary sardine in oil. But if you wish, you can take any other canned food to your taste. Eggs and cheese will add special satisfaction to the dish.
Ingredients
• sardine jar;
• 2 eggs;
• 80 grams of cheese;
• 2 salted cucumbers (small);
• 150 grams of fresh cabbage;
• one carrot;
• small onion;
• spices;
• mustard spoon;
• 6 tablespoons sour cream;
• greenery;
• butter;
• 3 pita bread.
Cooking
1. Shred cabbage finely, salt and pepper.
2. Open the canned food, drain the oil and knead the fish with a fork. Mix with cabbage mixture.
3. Fry onion and carrot in the pan with any butter. As soon as the vegetables are reddened, add the drained liquid from the canned food, stir and turn it off.
4. Boil the eggs, cut them finely and send them to the fish mass with cabbage.
5. Cut cucumbers, leave in a bowl.
6. For the sauce, mix sour cream with mustard, chopped greens, season with any spices.
7. Lubricate the pita bread with sauce, lay out a lot of fish with cabbage.
8. On top put vegetables previously fried in a pan.
9. Sprinkle with pickled cucumber and grated cheese.
10. Wrap, you can use without frying.
Recipe 4: Shawarma at Home with Sausage
Shawarma option at home for the most lazy or busy people. Instead of sausage, you can use ham, wieners, sausages. Choose the content to your taste and the contents of the refrigerator.
Ingredients
• 350 grams of boiled sausage;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 2 pita bread;
• butter;
• 2 tomatoes;
• Dill greens;
• 200 grams of Chinese cabbage.
For the sauce:
• 50 grams of mayonnaise;
• 30 grams of ketchup;
• pepper;
• optional garlic.
Cooking
1. Cut the sausage into strips or cubes, send it to the pan with butter and fry until it is rosy color. 2. Shred cabbage with cucumber, add chopped dill, salt and mix.
3. Tomatoes cut into 4 parts, then chop into thin slices across.
4. For the sauce, you need to mix ketchup with mayonnaise, add black pepper to the mass and, if desired, a clove of garlic.
5. Spread pits. Put the cabbage salad, then the sauce, sausage, tomatoes and pour the remnants of the sauce. Fold in any way, fry.
Recipe 5: Home-made shawarma at home with egg sauce
The peculiarity of this shawarma is an unusual sauce, which will change the whole idea of the semi-finished product. Especially good this dressing is combined with meat, but can be used with chicken. Take any meat: pork, beef, lamb.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of meat;
• onion;
• Bulgarian pepper;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 2 pita bread;
• 150 grams of hard cheese;
• a bunch of green lettuce.
For the sauce:
• yolk;
• 200 ml of kefir (fat);
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tablespoons of curry;
• 150 ml of oil;
• black pepper;
• cilantro.
Cooking
1. For the sauce, finely chop the garlic, add the raw yolk and beat with a mixer for 5 minutes. Add kefir, all spices, chopped cilantro. Mix and pour a thin stream of vegetable oil, interrupt. The sauce will turn out liquid, so it should be. This amount is enough for 6-8 pieces of shawarma.
2. Wash the meat, remove the film and cut into strips. Fry in a pan, at the end add chopped finely onion, cook until transparent. Cooling down.
3. Cucumbers cut into strips. Finely chop paprika. Add the grated cheese and season the salad dressing.
4. We spread the pita bread on the table, grease it with the sauce and lay out the lettuce leaves for the future stuffing, 2-3 layers are possible, it won't be worse. On top of the salad put half the cheese mixture with vegetables.
5. Spread the meat.
6. Cover with a layer of vegetable mixture.
7. Screw the shawarma, put another spoonful of sauce in the open edge. No need to fry.
Recipe 6: Shawarma at Home with Chicken and Mushrooms
An unusual version of the stunning shawarma, which can be easily done at home. We take pickled mushrooms, the view does not matter.
Ingredients • 100 grams of mushrooms;
• 50 grams of cheese;
• 250 grams of chicken fillet;
• one boiled potato;
• one sweet pepper;
• 2 pita bread;
• ketchup;
• 3 spoons of mayonnaise;
• garlic clove;
• bunch of green onions.
Cooking
1. Boil the fillets, fry or bake. We do it to your taste. Then cut the finished chicken into cubes.
2. Cut the mushrooms finely, pre-straining from the brine.
3. Three cheese, garlic, mix with mushrooms and add mayonnaise, mix.
4. Cut a bunch of green onions, combine with shredded potatoes and chicken, salt and pepper.
5. Lavash grease with a thin layer of ketchup, put the mushroom mass, then the chicken with onions. Squeeze the mayonnaise on top, for a bit you can add a little mustard.
6. Fold, fry and enjoy!
Recipe 7: Shawarma at home with a liver
This dish is a real unity of taste and benefit. It can be used for dietary food if to replace sour cream in gas station with low-fat yogurt. Liver use any: chicken, beef, pork.
Ingredients
• 120 grams of liver;
• clove of garlic;
• 50 grams of sour cream;
• 20 grams of suluguni;
• spoon of soy sauce;
• 100 grams of cabbage;
• one cucumber;
• one tomato;
• greenery;
• pita bread.
Cooking
1. For the sauce you want to mix soy sauce with sour cream and chopped garlic.
2. Boil the liver or fry until tender, cut finely and mix with half the sauce.
3. Shred cabbage, add chopped cucumber and tomato, chopped greens, season the salad with the rest of the sauce.
4. We expand the pita bread, put the salad, put the liver on top and wrap it up. Warming up in a pan, you can grill.
Recipe 8: Shawarma at Home “Vegetarian” with Spinach
It turns out that at home you can make shawarma not only for meat eaters, but also for vegetarians. Wonderful lean option based on a spinach and other vegetables filling. Vegetarian schaverma is also made from Armenian lavash.
Ingredients
• 250 grams of spinach;
• bunch of cilantro;
• cucumber;
• 50 grams of sour cream;
• a tomato;
• pepper;
• garlic;
• 100 grams of cheese or cottage cheese;
• 2 pita bread.
Cooking 1. Grind the spinach, add salt, pepper and send it to the microwave. Cooking for 5-7 minutes at medium power.
2. Cucumber and tomato cut arbitrarily, finely chop the cilantro, three cheese. If cottage cheese is used, then just knead the lumps.
3. Sour cream mixed with minced garlic, salt and pepper.
4. Lubricate the pita with sour cream sauce, put the spinach filling, sprinkle with half the cheese. Then we lay out vegetables, greens and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Wrap and fry until rudderiness in a dry frying pan. Vegetarian shawarma is ready!
Shawarma at Home - Tips and Tricks
• No ketchup? Use tomato paste as a sauce. Add some purified water, garlic, spices, herbs and mix well. You can also add fried onions and punch the resulting sauce with a blender.
• Instead of pita bread, shawarma can be put in a flat cake. To do this, it is cut in half and gently pushing the edges. In the resulting niche lay products, but not in layers, it is better to mix and make a kind of salad. You can also use a loaf, but the pulp is then removed, leaving the walls of 0.5 centimeters.
• To prevent the shawarma from turning, when frying, roll the rolls into the pan with the seam down, and after browning, turn them over to the opposite side.
• The most convenient way is to wrap armenian square lavash. The bundle is smooth and of equal thickness. But if there is no square pita bread, you can take an oval sheet and simply cut the edges on both sides.
