Shawarma is one of the most delicious types of fast food. The dish is simple, consists of simple products, but it turns out incredibly tasty. With all this, it is easy to cook shawarma at home, especially with chicken.
Shawarma with chicken in pita bread - general principles of preparation
You can take any chicken for shawarma, but the breast fillet is most often used. It is cut, seasoned with spices. At home, simply fry in a dry skillet or with a small amount of oil. Next, prepare fresh vegetables, as most often they complement the bird. Usually use cabbage, cucumbers. Tomatoes, there are very tasty options with Korean carrots, such a step-by-step recipe can be found just below.
An indispensable component of shawarma is a thin Armenian lavash. Chicken with vegetables is wrapped in it and sauce is definitely added. Typically, stalls use just mayonnaise, ketchup or mustard in different combinations. But it turns out much tastier with the addition of spices and garlic, herbs, lemon juice.
How to turn shawarma:
1. Spread pita bread on the table, sometimes it is smeared with sauce. But if the filling is very wet, then it is better not to do this.
2. Lay layers of chicken and vegetables filling at one edge.
3. Bend the near edge of the pita, hide the filling.
4. Fold the sides inward.
5. Twist the roll.
Sometimes they cook an open shawarma, which is simply twisted like a roll. Another option is one open edge, a kind of cup is obtained. The closed shawarma after cooking can be fried in a pan. With an open dish, this will not work. Pita bread, which was heated on the grill, looks especially beautiful.
Shawarma with chicken in pita bread (step by step with cabbage)
One of the most juicy and delicious recipes of shawarma with chicken in pita bread, the process of preparing the filling and sauce is described step by step. Coleslaw is not recommended to be done in advance and especially salted. In order not to provoke premature discharge of juices.
Ingredients
• breast of one chicken;
• 150 g of cabbage;
• 1 small carrot or half;
• 1 pepper;
• 2 tsp lemon juice;
• 20 ml of oil;
• two pita breads;
• 1 tsp seasonings for chicken;
• a tomato.
For the sauce:
• 1 tbsp. l ketchup;
• clove of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
• salt pepper;
• 4 branches of dill.
Cooking
1. Rinse the breast, remove the skin and bones or immediately take a clean filet. Dry with napkins, cut into plates of 0.5-1 cm.
2. Mix chicken seasonings and butter, add lemon juice. Grate chicken pieces with the prepared mixture, leave for five minutes.
3. Heat a dry skillet. We take the dishes with a coating, to which nothing burns. Spread chicken pieces and fry for three minutes on each side. We are guided by a brownish crust, there is no need to dry the fillet. Spread in a bowl, let it cool.
4. Shred the cabbage and rub the carrot to it. Use our hands to remove the volume of the mass.
5. Tomato cut into small slices, combine with salad. Add chopped bell pepper. You can use a fresh cucumber instead of a tomato or pepper or put it extra.
6. Chicken slices cut across into strips.
7. Prepare the shawarma sauce. To do this, mix ketchup with mayonnaise, squeeze a clove of garlic to them, but you can also add more chopped greens. To salt. Since the vegetables are juicy, a lot of sauce is not needed.
8. Cut each pita bread in half, you get four small shawarma. Or prepare two large convolutions as you like more.
9. There is no need to lubricate pita bread. Put a little vegetable mixture, spread the chicken on it. We try to distribute the products evenly so that the shawarma is the same size.
10. Now grease the chicken with the cooked sauce.
11. And again we make the vegetable layer, cover the fillet pieces. They will be saturated with vegetable juice and sauce, they will become juicy, soft.
12. Twist the shawarma with chicken in pita bread. The process step by step is described a little higher.
13. Optionally, lay out the packages in a hot but dry pan. Fry first on one side, and then on the second.
Shawarma with chicken in pita bread (step by step with mushrooms)
This recipe for shawarma with chicken in pita bread describes the process of making a very flavorful filling. Fresh champignons will be used for her. You can cook similarly with pickled mushrooms will also be delicious.
Ingredients
• 5 champignons;
• 250 g of chicken;
• one onion head;
• two pita breads;
• 120 g of cabbage;
• 2 tablespoons of ketchup;
• cucumber;
• 70 g sour cream;
• 0.5 carrots;
• butter and spices;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tsp mustard;
• greens to taste.
Cooking
1. Rinse the chicken fillet. Wipe dry a piece, cut into strips, sprinkle with salt and pepper, stir.
2. Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in a frying pan, fry the chicken on a heat slightly above average until cooked. Put in a bowl.
3. Cut the washed mushrooms into small pieces.
4. Add a spoonful of oil to the pan after the chicken, put the mushrooms and fry for ten minutes. All water should evaporate, be sure to stir.
5. Cut the onion finely, pour over the mushrooms, fry together for about three minutes until the onions are soft. Season with salt, pepper if desired and throw a spoonful of sour cream. Stir, turn off.
6. Cool the mushrooms.
7. Cut the cabbage into strips, add half the grated carrots, but you can also without it. We throw a pinch of salt, wrinkle with our hands so that the cabbage becomes soft.
8. Cut the cucumber into strips, pour over the cabbage. With it, you do not need to mash the salad.
9. Cut any greens to your taste. You can take dill or parsley, add to the vegetable filling.
10. Mix the ingredients of the sauce: squeeze the garlic into sour cream, add a teaspoon of mustard to them, add spices. If desired, you can add a little lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, the sauce will more resemble the taste of mayonnaise.
11. Transfer the sauce to the chicken, stir.
12. We spread pita bread on the table. Lubricate with ketchup half on the side on which the filling will be located. Let this part soften well.
13. Put a layer of cabbage salad.
14. We spread the mixture of chicken and sauce on it. You can simply put the chicken first, then pour the sauce on top, but it turns out tastier and the slices are better soaked.
15. Now there are mushrooms. We specially added a little sour cream so that they were also juicy, soaked.
16. We complete the assembly of shawarma with a finish layer of vegetables.
17. Gently fold the envelope or simply twist the roll with open edges. As more like it. Serve immediately, you can pre-grill or pan.
Shawarma with chicken in pita bread (step by step with Korean carrots and eggplant)
A delicious recipe for delicious shawarma with chicken in pita bread, described in detail for the preparation of spicy toppings. Korean carrots for her can be made independently or just bought in a store. You can use a classic salad or with some additives.
Ingredients
• 270 g of chicken;
• 130 g of Korean carrots;
• 2 small eggplants;
• 2.5 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
• fresh cucumber;
• 1 tbsp. l soy sauce;
• salt and pepper;
• 5 sprigs of parsley;
• 1 tbsp. l walnuts;
• clove of garlic;
• two standard pita breads.
Cooking
1. It is better to start preparing the filling with eggplant, as they require pre-treatment. Cut the little blue straws. Sprinkle with salt, forget about them for about fifteen minutes
2. While it is possible to prepare hens. We also cut the fillet into strips, fry in a greased, but not oiled pan until cooked. At the end, pour soy sauce, hold for a couple of minutes to form a beautiful crust, and pour into a bowl. Let the bird cool.
3. Add a little oil to the pan. We put on the stove to warm up.
4. Wash eggplant from excess salt, squeeze out by hand, put in a pan and fry until cooked. We do this over high heat so that the pieces do not break or fall apart.
5. Eggplant too cool.
6. Engaged in Korean carrots. If there is a lot of fluid, then simply express. We spread the carrots on a cutting board, cut into 2-3 cm slices, just a bunch, like greens. If this is not done, then shawarma will not be very convenient.
7. Connect the carrots with eggplant, stir.
8. Peel and chop the garlic, pour to the eggplant.
9. Grind the parsley and also add to the vegetables.
10. Cut the cucumber into strips. He will give a pleasant fresh note, sent to the vegetable filling. You can use a tomato or pepper, they also go well with carrots and eggplant.
11. We chop walnuts, but you can cook them without them, season the eggplants, stir.
12. To the chicken we put one spoon of mayonnaise, you can use sour cream. Also mix.
13. We collect the shawarma on pita bread. Lubricate the sheets with the remains of mayonnaise, put some eggplant with carrots, then a layer of chicken and again the vegetables.
14. We twist the envelopes. If desired, additionally fry and heat in a dry frying pan.
Shawarma with chicken in pita bread - useful tips and tricks
• All products for shawarma can be prepared in advance, put into containers and left in the refrigerator, but nothing can be salted and seasoned with sauces. At the right time, you just have to quickly assemble the dish, fry a couple of minutes in a pan.
• It is not necessary to specially cook chicken for shawarma. Is there a barbecue? You can put it in a dish! Got smoked ham? He will do, too! Even ordinary boiled or baked poultry can be used, but you have to flavor it with additional spices for taste.
• If there is no ketchup, then you can use tomato paste for shawarma. The sauce should be slightly diluted with water, seasoned with spices, garlic.
