How to cook Shawarma

Shawarma, known as shaurma, thin pita bread stuffed with fatty chopped meat and vegetables with spices. This is a tasty nutritious dish you can not only buy in special schools, but also to cook at home.

Shaverma with chicken

Shaverma with chicken less calories, because chicken meat is considered dietetic. To cook it at home is easier than a tortilla stuffed with meat, and the taste she will be more tender.

You will need:

- a large Armenian lavash 1 piece;
chicken, 200 grams;
- carrot, 1 piece;
- onion, 1 head;
- cabbage; 100 grams;
- cucumber, 1 piece;
- tomato, 1 piece;
- mayonnaise, 5 tbsp;
- sour cream, 5 tablespoons. spoons;
- yogurt, 5 tbsp;
- garlic, 2 cloves;
- greens;
curry seasoning.

Chicken good wash under running water, boil until tender, separate into strips and fry in pan adding vegetable oil. Prepare vegetables. Shred the cabbage, carrots grate on a coarse grater, onion and tomato cut in half rings, cucumber sticks.

For a detailed Armenian lavash, size 30x30, layers put vegetable stuffing: cabbage, carrot, onion, cucumber and tomato on top add the chicken. Make the sauce: mix with a whisk or a blender kefir, sour cream, mayonnaise with garlic. Sauce pour meat-vegetable stuffing, wrap pita bread roll and fry in a pan with butter on both sides.

Shawarma beef pita

A slightly different taste of the Shawarma, which is meat, vegetables and herbs wrapped in pita bread.

Pita is savory pastries with a "pocket" inside of which is placed the filling.

For cooking this Shawarma house, you will need:

- veal tenderloin, 500 grams;
Pete;
- cucumbers, 2 pieces;
- cucumber pickled, 1 piece;
- tomatoes, 2 pieces;
- vinegar, 200 ml;
- garlic, 3 heads;
- spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, curry, cardamom, paprika) to taste;
lettuce, green onions;
- sour cream (15%), 200 ml.

In the evening cut into thin steaks and marinate veal in a sauce of garlic, spices and vinegar. In the morning the meat dry with a towel and fry in a pan drizzled with oil, until browned.

To check whether meat, simply pierce it with a fork. If you highlight crenulata liquid – the meat is not fried, if transparent – you can safely get.

Polite meat into small oblong pieces and bake them in the heated oven for 20 minutes. Tomatoes and cucumbers cut into strips.
Prepare the sauce. To do this, mix the sour cream with chopped garlic, green onion and pickled cucumber. Cut pita in half. It spread the sauce and lay on top of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers, veal. The stuffing cover with the sauce and close the other half pita.