Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lebanese chicken shawarma. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Once the chicken shawarma is grilled, place the chicken breasts on a cutting board and shred into thin slices as per the photo above. Spread those slices along the diameter of a pita bread, add a bit of Lebanese Garlic Paste (check recipe) , some salty cucumber pickles, a bit of roasted tomatoes, french fries, roll it and voila. you've got.
Lebanese Chicken Shawarma is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Lebanese Chicken Shawarma is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lebanese chicken shawarma using 32 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Chicken Shawarma:
- Prepare For chicken marination
- Make ready 700-750 g Boneless Chicken
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare Ground cardamom
- Take 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Get 4 tbsp yogurt
- Make ready 2 tsp paprika powder
- Take 1-1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 4 tbsp oil
- Get For Khubz (bread)
- Make ready 500 g plain flour or wheat flour
- Take 2 tsp active dry yeast
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Get For crunchy salad
- Take 2 big red onion
- Get 1 tomato
- Get 1 Small Iceberg lettuce
- Prepare 2-3 pickled cucumber
- Take 3-4 pickled jalapeno
- Take 1/2 cup chopped parsley
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tsp paprika powder
- Make ready 3 tsp sumac powder
- Get For yogurt sauce
- Get 250 g yogurt
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 2-3 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- Make ready 1/2 tsp paprika powder (add more if you like spicy)
- Make ready 1 garlic clove, grated
- Prepare 3 tbsp tahini sauce
Making the perfect chicken shawarma wrap is simple and doesn't require you to add too many things. Garlic sauce (toum), chips (preferably hand cut), spicy pickles (not sweet) and that's it. You can add ketchup or hot sauce if you like but nothing more. There are two main ways to serve Chicken Shawarma.
Instructions to make Lebanese Chicken Shawarma:
- Marinate chicken with the above mentioned spices for at least an hour or overnight if time permits.
- Cook it in a pan on stove until nicely tender or cook it in oven on grill setting for 20 minutes.
- Once cooked cut them in small pieces, set a side.
- For the bread add all of the dry ingredients in a bowl and knead it with almost 1-1/2 cup of warm water, spray some oil in a bowl, put the dough in the bowl and cover with cling film, keep it in a warm place for almost 1 hour.
- Take a hand full of dough, and make a ball with the help of dry flour, Roll it out and then put it on a hot girdle, when bubbles appear flip it over.
- Cook the flip side for about 1 minute or until nicely done, do not overcook.
- Take 2 red onions and finely slice them and soak it with 1 tsp salt and ice cold water in the fridge for 1 hour, drain out all water and wash them properly after an hour, this gets rid of the bitter taste of onions.
- Chop the rest of the vegetables and mix it with the onion and season them with salt, paprika and sumac powder.
- Mix all the yoghurt sauce ingredients together and keep it aside.
- To assemble, take a khubz and layer it with some cooked chicken, the salad and the yoghurt sauce and wrap it up!
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You can add ketchup or hot sauce if you like but nothing more. There are two main ways to serve Chicken Shawarma. As Chicken Shawarma wraps (like Gyros and Doner kebabs) - with tomato, lettuce, and a simple yoghurt sauce on the side. Other optional extras include: red onion, cheese (query authenticity? I have had Shawarma from several restaurants.
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