With the oriental shawarma (or shaverma) dish, most of us met at the end of the last century, when it was first produced and sold in special stalls in the streets of capitals, and later of other small towns.
Shaurma is a thin cake, twisted roll or kulkom, and filled with the likeness of a salad of vegetables, mixed with meat.
Many people with prejudice refer to this culinary product, considering it a fast food. In fact, properly cooked shaurma is a tasty and even useful dish.
How to cook shawarma?
Almost all the hostesses know how to make chebureks , but the recipe for preparing shawarma is not known to everyone, although even a novice housewife can easily master it.
Ingredients:
- lavash (large plate) - 1 piece;
- fresh tomatoes - 2 - 3 pcs .;
- cucumbers fresh or pickled (salted) - 2 - 3 pcs .;
- cabbage - ¼ of a medium-sized cabbage;
- lettuce leaves - 3 - 4 leaves;
- onion - 1 head;
- Cheese hard (any) - 200 g;
- meat 250 - 300 g.
For preparation of marinade:
- onion - 1 head;
- dry wine or diluted grape vinegar - ½ cup.
To make garlic sauce:
- kefir - 3 tablespoons;
- thick mayonnaise - 3 - 4 tablespoons;
- sour cream - 3 - 4 tablespoons;
- garlic - 6 - 7 denticles;
- a pinch of a mixture of red and black ground pepper;
- coriander, curry, dried herbs (based on your taste).
Preparation
Meat preparation
Cut the meat into small pieces. Meat for shawarma fits any: veal, pork, rabbit or lamb. If you are an economical and diligent mistress, choose a chicken. In addition, it is well known that chicken is a low-calorie meat. Marinate the meat for 45 to 50 minutes in a marinade from dry wine or diluted wine vinegar and chopped onions. When the meat is missed, fry it in a frying pan on deodorized vegetable oil.
Preparation of the filling
Slightly cut cucumbers, tomatoes, leaf lettuce and onions. Shinkle the cabbage. We add already fried meat. All the constituent fillings are mixed.
Specialists warn that in this shawarma, fried potatoes or french fries are not placed, otherwise when the dish is heated the potatoes fall apart and take a puree-like consistency, and the taste of shawarma will be quite different.
Preparation of sauce
Garlic is cleaned and finely chopped so that it gives juice, add kefir, mayonnaise, sour cream, spices and ground dried herbs. All ingredients of the sauce thoroughly mix or whisk together the mixer until a creamy mixture is obtained. Do you prefer another sauce, for example, tomato? When preparing shawarma, you can safely use any of the sauces. The only thing, it is necessary that it was thick, otherwise lavash will get wet.
Preparation of Shawarma
When choosing lavash follow the rule: the cake should be fresh to bend well, and the edges of the fold do not crack when folding the lavash into a roll.
And now we will tell you how to wrap shaurma . A large sheet of pita bread is cut into two approximately equal halves. On the edge of each sheet obtained, put the finished stuffing, pour over the sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese. We fold the plate with rolls so that the filling is inside the product.
Twisted rolls of shawarma are slightly heated in an oven or in a frying pan. Experienced culinary experts warn that it is undesirable to warm a shawarma in a microwave oven, because the taste of the dish is lost. Rolls cut into large slices, put on a plate or spacing.
Prepare shawarma for breakfast or dinner. Perhaps, submit this unusual dish at a beer party, as a snack.
Your home delicious and satisfying shaurma will have to taste!