Homemade shawarma

Homemade shawarma is a wide variety of homemade fast food options that are united by the main condition: any fried meat is complemented by a mix of vegetables with different sauces, wrapped in pita bread and necessarily fried. All types of shawarma are prepared quickly, and the result is always undoubtedly delicious.

Homemade shawarma with chicken in lavash

Homemade shawarma with chicken in pita bread is prepared simply and quickly. Any chicken meat (fillet, thigh) is fried in a pan with seasonings. In this recipe, we use cucumbers, lettuce and some Korean carrots as a vegetable mix for chicken. We prepare the sauce from sour cream with mustard and garlic.

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   Shawarma is very easy to prepare at home.Immediately prepare all the ingredients for homemade shawarma according to the recipe. Rinse the chicken meat and dry it with a napkin.
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   For the sauce, place the sour cream in a bowl and add a clove of garlic through a garlic press.
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   Then add a teaspoon of mustard, a little salt, mix well, take a sample and adjust the taste.
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   Cut the cucumbers into thin strips.
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   Wash the lettuce leaves, dry with a napkin and cut into large pieces.
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   Cut the chicken meat into small pieces and fry in hot vegetable oil for 10 minutes.
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   Season the fried chicken with salt, seasoning and black pepper and remove from the stove to prevent the meat from drying out.
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   On the countertop, unroll the pita sheets and brush them with some of the sauce. Add shredded lettuce with fried chicken and cover with dressing.
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   Place sliced ​​cucumbers and some Korean carrots on top of the sauce.
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    Wrap this filling tightly in pita bread, tucking in the side edges as well.
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    Fry the formed shawarma on both sides in a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil to make the pita bread crispy.
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    Transfer the homemade shawarma with chicken in pita bread to plates, cut in half and serve. Bon appetit!

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Shawarma with pork at home

Shawarma at home with pork, as a more acceptable meat for us instead of traditional lamb, will not only be a snack for you, but also a satisfying dish, especially for men. In this recipe, fry the pork and immediately mix it with the sauce. For vegetables, we take Cherry tomatoes, Chinese cabbage and cucumber. We add cheese to the shawarma and fry it in a dry frying pan, which gives a grill effect.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Lavash – 2 pcs.
• Pork – 300 gr.
• Cherry – 12 pcs.
• Fresh cucumber – 1 pc.
• Beijing cabbage – 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise – 150 gr.
• Hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Dill - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the pork, be sure to dry it with a napkin and cut into small pieces. Fry them until cooked for 5-7 minutes with stirring and without adding oil.

Step 2. For the sauce, in a separate bowl, mix garlic minced through a garlic press with finely chopped dill and mayonnaise.

Step 3. Transfer the fried pork to a separate bowl and cool.

Step 4. Add the prepared mayonnaise sauce to it and mix well.

Step 5. Chop the Beijing cabbage into thin strips.

Step 6. Cut the tomatoes into halves. Cut the cucumbers, like the cabbage, into thin strips. Grind the hard cheese on a coarse grater.

Step 7. Unfold the lavash sheets on the countertop and place sliced ​​Chinese cabbage with fried pork in sauce in the middle.

Step 8. Place sliced ​​tomatoes and cucumber evenly on top of the pork and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Step 9. Carefully wrap the filling in pita bread. Fry the formed shawarma with pork in a dry frying pan and serve immediately hot. Bon appetit!

Homemade shawarma with sausage in lavash

A very tasty version of homemade shawarma would be to cook it with sausage and vegetables. In this recipe, choose smoked sausage and fry it. As a vegetable mix we take cabbage, cherry tomatoes, pickled cucumber and Korean carrots. For the sauce, mix mayonnaise with tomato paste.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Lavash – 2 pcs.
• Smoked sausage – 100 gr.
• Cherry – 6 pcs.
• Pickled cucumber – 1 pc.
• White cabbage – 100 gr.
• Korean carrots – 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp.
• Tomato sauce – 1 tbsp.
• Hard cheese – 70 gr.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove the smoked sausage from the casing, cut into strips and fry in hot vegetable oil for two minutes.

Step 2. In a bowl, mix mayonnaise and tomato sauce well. Unroll the pita sheets and spread a thin layer of sauce on them, leaving the edges free.

Step 3. Place fried sausage on one edge of the pita bread.

Step 4. Place sliced ​​pickled cucumber on top of the sausage.

Step 5. Place cherry tomato circles on top of the cucumber.

Step 6. Chop the white cabbage into thin strips, grind with salt and place on top of the sliced ​​cherry tomatoes.

Step 7. Place some Korean carrots on the cabbage.

Step 8. Sprinkle this filling evenly with grated cheese.

Step 9. Then carefully roll the shawarma into an envelope.

Step 10. Brown the formed shawarma in a dry grill pan for 2 minutes on each side.

Step 11. Cut the prepared homemade shawarma with sausage in pita bread in half and serve immediately hot. Bon appetit!

Shawarma with chicken and Korean carrots

Shawarma with chicken and Korean carrots, prepared with your own hands and based on high-quality products, turns out to be the most delicious, and Korean carrots will add piquancy to its taste. In this recipe we fry chicken meat. We take Korean carrots either ready-made or homemade. For chicken shawarma, the sauce is important and we prepare it from mayonnaise with sour cream and spices.

Cooking time: 50 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Thin lavash – 1 pc.
• Fried chicken meat – 150 gr.
• Korean carrots – 150 gr.
• Fresh cucumber – 1 pc.
• Lettuce/cabbage leaf – 3 pcs.
• Adjika – 2 tbsp.
• Butter – for frying.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

For the sauce:

• Sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Khmeli-suneli - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Smoked paprika - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare all ingredients for shawarma according to the recipe. Cut the chicken into small pieces, sprinkle with salt and black pepper and fry over high heat for 10 minutes in a mixture of butter and vegetable oil.

Step 2. For the sauce, in a separate bowl, mix well the sour cream with mayonnaise, chopped garlic and seasonings.

Step 3. Unroll a large sheet of lavash and brush the entire surface with adjika, leaving only the edges free.

Step 4. Finely chop the lettuce leaves with cucumber and place on top of the adjika layer.

Step 5: Arrange the fried chicken evenly on top of the vegetables.

Step 6. Cut the Korean carrots into shorter pieces and place evenly on top of the chicken.

Step 7. Generously coat the filling with the prepared garlic sauce.

Step 8: Fold the side edges of the pita bread over the filling first.

Step 9. Then tightly and carefully roll the pita bread into a roll.

Step 10. Fry it in a dry frying pan or grill until just lightly browned.

Step 11. Cut the prepared shawarma with chicken and Korean carrots in half and immediately serve hot. Bon appetit!

PP healthy shawarma at home

PP healthy shawarma at home is prepared from poultry meat, any set of vegetables, and low-fat sour cream, yogurt, fermented baked milk or ketchup are used for the sauce. The recipe is simple, quick and delicious.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Armenian lavash – 2 pcs.
• Chicken fillet – 300 gr.
• Tomato – 1 pc.
• Cucumber – 1 pc.
• Cheese – 150 gr.
• Low-fat sour cream/yogurt – 100 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Paprika - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wash the chicken fillet, cut into strips and sprinkle with salt and black pepper. The fillet can be cooked in one piece and cut after frying.

Step 2. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan. Fry the fillet on it for 3-5 minutes until light golden brown.

Step 3. Wash the vegetables, dry with a napkin and cut the cucumbers into strips and the tomatoes into thin slices.

Step 4. Grind the hard cheese on a coarse grater.

Step 5. In a bowl, mix sour cream/yogurt with salt, ground black pepper and paprika.

Step 6. Unroll the pita bread on the table and brush half of it with the prepared sauce.

Step 7. Place the fried chicken fillet on the sauce.

Step 8. Place the chopped vegetables next to the fillet.

Step 9. Sprinkle the filling evenly with grated cheese.

Step 10. Carefully and tightly roll the filled pita bread into a roll. Fry it in a preheated dry frying pan until golden brown on both sides.

Step 11. Transfer the prepared PP healthy shawarma at home onto a plate, cut in half and serve hot. Bon appetit!

Homemade shawarma with minced meat

In the popular homemade shawarma, fried meat can be replaced with minced meat without losing the excellent taste of this snack. In this recipe you are invited to take minced chicken, add grated cheese in a 1:2 ratio and fry it into meatballs. As a vegetable set, we take the traditional shawarma cucumber, lettuce, Korean carrots and red onion.For the sauce, mix ketchup with mayonnaise, which can be replaced with sour cream or yogurt.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Lavash – 1 pc.
• Minced chicken – 300 gr.
• Hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Breadcrumbs – 20 gr.
• Cucumber – 50 gr.
• Iceberg salad – 30 gr.
• Korean carrots – 30 gr.
• Red onion – 20 gr.
• Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp.
• Ketchup – 2 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare all ingredients for shawarma according to the recipe proportions.

Step 2. Grind any hard cheese, such as Parmesan or Pecorino, on a fine grater.

Step 3. Place the minced chicken in a separate bowl, add salt, grated cheese and add white bread crackers. Mix everything well.

Step 4. With wet hands, use a tablespoon's worth of minced meat to form into meatballs.

Step 5. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and place the meatballs on it.

Step 6. Fry the meatballs over medium heat until golden brown on all sides.

Step 7. For the vegetable filling, chop the salad. It can be replaced with white cabbage and chopped into very thin strips.

Step 8. Cut the cucumber into thin longitudinal bars.

Step 9. Chop the onion into thin half rings.

Step 10. Mix mayonnaise and ketchup in a bowl.

Step 11. On the countertop, unroll a sheet of pita bread and place sliced ​​lettuce, cucumber and Korean carrots in the middle.

Step 12. Place meatballs and chopped onions in a single row on top of the vegetables.

Step 13. Pour the prepared sauce evenly over the filling. Then roll the pita bread carefully and tightly, forming a shawarma.

Step 14. Fry the shawarma in a frying pan or grill to get a crispy golden crust on both sides.

Step 15Cut homemade shawarma with minced meat in half and serve hot. You can freeze the remaining meatballs and use them for another serving of this delicious appetizer. Bon appetit!

Simple and quick shawarma with sausages

When you don’t have time to cook meat, a simple and quick shawarma with sausages will help you out, and even a child can prepare it for a quick snack. In this recipe, we fry sausages for shawarma, and from vegetables we take either Iceberg lettuce, or Chinese or white cabbage.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Lavash – 1 pc.
• Sausages – 3 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 80 gr.
• Cabbage – ½ pc.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.
• Ketchup - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove the sausages from the casing and cut them lengthwise into halves. Cut the cheese into long thin strips. Finely chop the cabbage.

Step 2. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the sliced ​​sausages until lightly browned.

Step 3. Unfold the lavash sheet and cut it in half. Apply a thin layer of ketchup and mayonnaise to each piece of lavash. Place sausages and slices of cheese lengthwise on the edge.

Step 4. Place the cabbage slices evenly on top of them and roll tightly into rolls.

Step 5. Fry the formed shawarma in a frying pan or in the oven until crispy on both sides.

Step 6. Serve the prepared simple and quick shawarma with sausages immediately and hot. Bon appetit!

Delicious shawarma with shrimp

Shawarma with shrimp will be an equally tasty version of this popular Asian dish, because shrimp in pita bread goes well with a mix of vegetables, which makes the appetizer crispy and fresh, and you can prepare different sauces. In this recipe, we marinate shrimp in soy sauce, fry them and use a special shawarma sauce.

Cooking time: 50 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Royal shrimps in shell – 900 gr.
• Lavash – 3 pcs.
• Cucumber – 1 pc.
• Radishes – 5 pcs.
• Tomatoes – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 1 clove.
• Iceberg salad – ½ pc.
• Soy sauce – 100 ml.
• Shawarma sauce – 9 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Defrost the shrimp in advance in natural conditions, clean it, cover it with soy sauce and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour to marinate.

Step 2. Then quickly fry them in hot vegetable oil, and you can add a clove of garlic for flavor.

Step 3. Unfold the sheets of pita bread on the table. Apply a layer of shawarma sauce to one edge and add chopped iceberg lettuce.

Step 4. Finely chop the radish, cucumber and tomato. Place the sliced ​​vegetables on top of the salad.

Step 5. Place the fried shrimp on top of the vegetables.

Step 6. Pour shawarma sauce over the filling.

Step 7. Form the shawarma carefully and tightly.

Step 8. In a dry grill pan, dry the shawarma until golden brown stripes appear on both sides.

Step 9. Place the prepared delicious shawarma with shrimp on portion plates, cut in half and serve hot. Bon appetit!

Homemade shawarma with turkey

Homemade shawarma with turkey will be a more dietary and nutritional dish for you, and it is prepared quickly.Turkey meat is marinated and imbued with the aroma of seasonings almost at lightning speed, which makes shawarma very tasty. In this recipe, we will complement the turkey with Chinese cabbage, fresh cucumber and carrots. Mayonnaise in the sauce can be replaced with sour cream or yogurt.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Turkey fillet – 300 gr.
• Armenian lavash – 300 gr.
• Beijing cabbage – 450 gr.
• Cucumber – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp.
• Ketchup – 4 tbsp.
• Seasoning for chicken – 2 tbsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare all ingredients for shawarma according to the recipe. Rinse the turkey fillet with cold water and dry with a napkin. Rinse the vegetables. Peel the carrots.

Step 2. Cut the fillet into slices, sprinkle with salt and seasoning, mix well and cover with a lid or plate.

Step 3. Cut the Chinese cabbage into strips. Grind the carrots on a Korean grater. Mix these vegetables in a separate bowl.

Step 4. Cut the cucumber into thin semicircles and add a little salt.

Step 5. Fry the marinated turkey slices for no more than 10 minutes until golden brown and can be cut into thinner pieces.

Step 6. Unfold the sheets of pita bread and place the chopped vegetables with fried turkey on them in any order, leaving the edges free. Pour mayonnaise and ketchup evenly over the filling.

Step 7. Carefully and tightly roll the pita bread with filling, forming a shawarma. Fry it on a grill or dry frying pan until golden brown on both sides.

Step 8. Cut the prepared homemade shawarma with turkey into halves, arrange on serving plates, add herbs and serve. Bon appetit!

Shawarma with red fish

Shawarma with red fish differs from meat in its unusual taste, and is also healthier. Red fish is either lightly salted, fried or baked. In this version we prepare shawarma with lightly salted trout. From vegetables, add fresh cucumber, bell pepper, tomato, avocado and arugula with salad. Sour cream is a better sauce for red fish. This shawarma is either served immediately after cooking or heated a little on the grill.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Armenian thin lavash – 2 pcs.
• Lightly salted trout – 150 gr.
• Avocado – 1 pc.
• Cucumber – 2 pcs.
• Sweet pepper – 1 pc.
• Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
• Lemon – ½ pc.
• Arugula – 30 gr.
• Lettuce leaves – 8 pcs.

For the sauce:

• Sour cream – 200 gr.
• Dill – 4 sprigs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for shawarma according to the recipe.

Step 2. For the sauce, in a separate bowl, mix sour cream with finely chopped dill, salt and ground black pepper.

Step 3. Wash the vegetables, dry with a napkin and cut the cucumber and sweet pepper into thin long strips and the tomatoes into slices.

Step 4. Remove the peel and pit from the avocado and cut the pulp into strips. Cut the trout in the same way. Sprinkle these ingredients with the juice of half a lemon.

Step 5. Unroll the sheets of pita bread on the countertop. Apply some of the sour cream sauce to the edge.

Step 6. Place washed lettuce leaves and arugula on top of the sauce.

Step 7. Place chopped vegetables on top of the greens.

Step 8. Arrange avocado and red fish slices evenly on top of the vegetables.

Step 9. Cover the filling with the rest of the sauce.

Step 10. Wrap the filling tightly and neatly into a roll.

Step 11Prepared shawarma with red fish can be served immediately or lightly fried in a dry frying pan or grill. Bon appetit!