Eastern Shawarma: how to cook?

Shaurma (shaverma, shavarma) is an oriental dish, similar in composition and appearance to a Mexican burito. It is unpretentious in preparation and belongs to the category of the fastest dishes. In Eastern countries, only lamb or camel meat is used as filling, but Russian culinary specialists use different types of meat. Predominantly in the course is the chicken. It is available, low-calorie and tasty. With chicken meat, a nutritious and juicy shawarma is obtained. How to cook a real shawarma at home, we will tell below.

The obligatory components of this dish are various spices, and the sharper, the better. Usually black, red pepper, turmeric, and zira are added. There is a lot of greenery: dill, parsley and coriander - they give the shawarma freshness. Depending on the taste priorities, green onions and garlic can be added. In eastern shawarma, there is neither mayonnaise nor ketchup - this technology is inherent only to Russian traders who introduced their innovations in order to facilitate the process and shorten cooking time.

For juiciness, the dish is poured with kefir or sour cream sauce with garlic. In principle, there are many interpretations on the preparation of shawarma. In summer, you can put only fresh vegetables in pita bread - you will get a vegetarian shaurma. How to cook a vegetable dish? Very simple. We take any vegetables and wrap it in lavash - there is nothing complicated. Meat can be replaced with fish, meat semi-products or ordinary sausages - a simple snack on a quick hand. And how to prepare a delicious shawarma from meat, you will learn below.

Products: chicken fillet (100 g), potatoes (2 pcs.), Marinated cucumber (5 rings), tomato, Korean carrots (a pair of spoons), cheese (100 g), coriander, dill, curry, black pepper, Armenian lavash. Before buying lavash you need to make sure that it is whole, without holes. If desired, it can be prepared at home by yourself from an unleavened dough. Yes, and Korean salads can be replaced with fresh cucumbers, so it will be more useful shaurma. How to make garlic sauce for her, we will tell.

So, cut small cubes of meat. It is not necessary to take a chicken, absolutely any meat is suitable for a dish. Chicken fillet fry in vegetable oil, add curry and pepper. Potatoes cut into thin blocks, like fries. Fry in large quantities of oil and put on a napkin to stack excess fat. Salted cucumbers cut into mugs. We rub the cheese on the grater.

We prepare the pita bread, in the middle we spread all the ingredients, cut the greens and wrap it in the form of a roll. You can fry before serving. It is not recommended to reheat in the microwave oven. That's how delicious shawarma turned out. How to cook a suitable sauce for her? Very simply, for this we need:

- 50 g of kefir, sour cream, mayonnaise;

- Coriander, curry, coriander, parsley, dill, black pepper;

- garlic (6 denticles).

Squeeze out garlic, mix with all the ingredients, put in the refrigerator to insist. Here's how to properly prepare a shawarma and sauce for it. Shawarma is suitable for both white and red sauces. For red, you can take ketchup or tomato paste, mix with garlic and herbs. And those who are too lazy to cook, can buy it in any supermarket.