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How to Prepare Homemade Lebanese shawarma

 ·  ☕ 6 min read  ·  ✍️ Hannah Greene

Lebanese shawarma

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lebanese shawarma. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shawarma is probably one of the most recognizable Middle Eastern ethnic food names in the West, behind Falafel and Hummus. This is a flavorful chicken dish, which I first tasted at a little Lebanese restaurant. While normally shawarma is sliced off a rotisserie, it can be made at home with just a few changes. Be warned, it takes a day of prep time.

Lebanese shawarma is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Lebanese shawarma is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lebanese shawarma using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese shawarma:
  1. Get Flat bread
  2. Take Parsley
  3. Prepare Pickles or Cucumber
  4. Make ready Fresh green long peppers or pickled green peppers (optional)
  5. Get Minced meat or shreaded chicken pool
  6. Take Carrots
  7. Take Mayonnaise
  8. Get Ketchup
  9. Get Seasonings for the meat (garlic powder, oregano, maggi)
  10. Prepare 1 red bell pepper and 3 habanero peppers
  11. Make ready Half an onion

There is no need to fuss and add a million ingredients; you need pickles for tanginess, tomatoes for fruitiness, parsley for freshness, onions for sharpness and tahini. Chicken Shawarma is a popular gourmet sandwich that you can get at Middle Eastern restaurants. Marinated chicken chunks are mounted on a large rotating skewer and then roasted slowly to perfection against a gas burning grill. Due to the unavailability of such industrial roasters at homes, Chicken Shawarma has typically remained a restaurant dish.

Instructions to make Lebanese shawarma:
  1. Prepare the meat by putting it on the fire and letting the water that comes out of it, dry up then add groundnut oil. Pound the fresh peppers and chop the onion and add it to the meat. Allow to fry while stirring.
  2. Slice the cucumber, chop up the parsley. Mix equal parts mayonnaise and ketchup in a bowl.
  3. Place the bread on a plate. Spread the mayo and ketchup on the bread then arrange the vegetables to your liking roll it up and serve or if you want it hot, you can place it in a grill toaster for a few minutes. If you don't have one, place on a hot frying pan and flip to warm it up.

Marinated chicken chunks are mounted on a large rotating skewer and then roasted slowly to perfection against a gas burning grill. Due to the unavailability of such industrial roasters at homes, Chicken Shawarma has typically remained a restaurant dish. Shawarma is a middle eastern spiced beef or chicken sliced thinly with fresh veggies and tahini sauce (also known as tarator) or garlic aioli for the chicken. It is one of the most well-known Lebanese cuisines. Homemade beef Shawarma can be just as delicious as the crispy and juicy street food you know and love in the middle east.

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