How to cook Shawarma at home?

Oriental cuisine has recently become part of our diet.Geographical distribution has long moved beyond the countries in which they once were.Now no one is surprised baklava, white sesame halva, Turkish delight, sherbet and churchhelle, exhibited in glass cases supermarkets.

on our streets in front of the customer master chefs demonstrate how to cook Shawarma (or shawarma), juicy skewers of lamb or kebab.Almost every restaurant offers a delicious soup kharcho, couscous, beshbarmak and dolma.The entertainment venues, bars and cafes can be happy to enjoy the excellent coffee and oriental hookah.

The variety of oriental dishes is enormous.But can you cook them at home alone?Of course you can.And it will cost much cheaper, plus the doubt as products certainly do not have to.I, for example, just love shawarma, cook it very often their home.And with any fillings and without any reason.Therefore, in this article I will describe my most favorite recipe on how to cook Shawarma House.

Shaverma - a dish consisting of a stuffed bird, beef or lamb meat and vegetables, seasoned with various sauces and spices, wrapped in pita bread or pita.Only one of its delicious flavor and type of involuntary salivation begins!By the way, in Jordan Shawarma traditionally made from camel meat.

So start making:

Before cooking shawarma, you must marinate the meat.His first cut into fillets and then fight off and pour the marinade for about 10-12 hours.For the marinade, you will need a mixture of Eastern meat (curry, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, hot za'tar), olive oil, red vinegar, onion chopped onion, salt and parsley.The whole was mixed and poured into the meat.

When the meat is almost marinated, ready to shaverma additives.You have already come close to how to prepare a home Shawarma.

ingredients shavermy:

  • fresh meat - 800 grams;
  • cucumbers - 5 pieces;
  • fresh tomatoes - 5 pieces;
  • pickled onions;
  • pita bread or pita.

Ingredients for the sauce:

  • low-fat sour cream - 200 grams;
  • finely chopped green onions - 50 grams;
  • olive oil;
  • crushed garlic - 3 cloves;
  • pickles - 2 pieces;
  • seasonings.

How to cook Shawarma?Fresh cucumbers on the skin clean and cut into cubes.Tomatoes are also cut into cubes or strips.Onions cut into half rings and marinate.It can be the same brine that meat.Sour cream mixed with crushed garlic, grated pickled cucumber, green onions, olive oil and spices, leave all this moment on 25.

get the meat from the marinade and lightly deep fried it in vegetable oil until a thin brown crust, cut into strips 1 cm wideand a length of about 5-7 cm. to wrap the meat in foil and placed in a fireproof dish for 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.After twenty minutes, the foil removed, but still leave the meat for 10 minutes in an oven in an open container.

variant with pita bread:

cut the pita horizontally, but not all the way to the other side of it was closed.Put the stuffing inside of cucumbers, tomatoes, pickled onions and meat, watering sauce.

Option with lavash:

Share pita bread on a square of about 30x30 cm. On one end of the entire length of the layers lay out the filling and pour sauce.Wrapped in pita bread roll and put a minute on a greased pan edge down.

Now you know how to cook Shawarma House, it is quite simple.Rejoice yourself and your family with new culinary delights!