A few tips on how to make shawarma at home

Passing the trays with shawarma, many probably thought about whether it is possible to cook this dish at home on their own. In fact, it's pretty simple.

The main principle of preparation of this dish - chopped promarinovannye pieces of meat are wrapped in pita bread. And the taste can vary, depending on the culinary imagination of the hostess and the ingredients that she uses. It is not necessary to cook shawarma on open fire, as it is done in street tents. It may well come up and the usual kitchen frying pan. Speaking about what shaurma is made from, it is necessary to mention meat of various varieties, you can take as lamb, pork or beef, and chicken meat. However, in the latter case, it is worth taking mayonnaise for marinade, whereas for red meat vinegar or table wine is preferable.

Before preparing a shawarma at home, it is necessary to decide on the recipe to be used, as there are a lot of them. For example, you can do it as follows. For marinade, spices are mixed (cardamom, cloves, black pepper and others), olive oil, vinegar, chopped greens. This mixture is filled with meat for several hours. Before the preparation of shawarma, the meat is taken and cut into small pieces, which are fried over medium heat in a frying pan. Lavash (usually, one sheet is enough for one serving) spreads on the surface. A green salad is laid out on top, along a slice of tomato and cucumber, a Korean carrot, everything is filled with ketchup and mayonnaise. Further meat is located, and pita bread is wrapped in the form of an envelope. You can place the dish for a few minutes in a preheated oven or microwave.

In the case when preparing shaurma at home with chicken, the recipe can be used as follows. Chicken fillet marinated in a mixture of mayonnaise with spices. Then the meat is cut into small pieces and fried in a frying pan until golden. Fresh cabbage is chopped and salted. The onion is cut into half rings. Cucumbers and tomatoes are cut slices, a bunch of greenery is crushed. Pita bread is spread on which the products are laid out in the following order: chicken, tomatoes and cucumbers, greens, cabbage, onions, Korean carrots, meat. All this is poured over with ketchup and mayonnaise, wrapped up.

There are several tricks how to cook shawarma at home, so that it turned out much tastier and juicier bought somewhere. So, ketchup and mayonnaise can be replaced with a sauce, for example, tkemali, tobasco, etc. Lavash for the dish should be fresh, as it will be difficult to roll the next day, it can break and crumble. If there is a need to make this dish later, and lavash is already bought, you can put it in the freezer until you need it.

Another way to make a shawarma at home is as follows. Lamb marinated in vinegar, mixed with spices and garlic, for several hours. Next, pieces of meat are baked in foil, in a preheated oven. Diced tomatoes and cucumbers are put into ready-made meat, mixed. On a thin lavash is laid out a filling of lamb with vegetables. From above everything is poured with sauce, pita bread rolls. For the sauce, chop the onion, garlic, pickled cucumber with the addition of sour cream in a blender.

Talking about how to cook shawarma at home, it is worth remembering that, by diversifying the ingredients for the filling, you can extend the taste sensations from the dish itself. For example, grated cheese is well combined with meat, various stewed vegetables - aubergines and zucchini, Korean salads. The acuity of shawarma depends on the taste preferences of the cook. Since this is a dish of Caucasian cuisine, a little pepper is still worth adding in any case.