shawarma chicken recipe
Chicken Shawarma Recipe
Have you visited a Lebanese restaurant lately, and liked the chicken shawarma there? Well once you get to know the recipe to make this dish, you will realize that you do not have to visit the restaurant and shell out extra money to relish this wonderful dish.
- Boneless and Skinless Chicken 1 ½ lbs
- Plain Yogurt 1 cup
- Vinegar ¼ cup
- Garlic (crushed) 2 cloves
- Pepper 1 tsp.
- Salt ½ tsp.
- Cardamom Pods 2
- Allspice 1 tsp.
- Lemon Juice from 1 lemon
- Tahini Sauce 1 cup
- Garlic (crushed) 2 cloves
- Lemon Juice ¼ cup
- Yogurt 2 tsp.
- Pita Bread, 4 large
- Cucumber (thinly sliced)
- Onions (thinly sliced)
- Tomatoes (thinly sliced)
- Sumac ½ tsp.
- Fresh Parsley (finely chopped) ½ cup
- Pickles of your choice
- Combine all the ingredients apart from chicken to make the marinade.
- If the marinade seems a little dry, you can add some olive oil to it.
- Now add chicken to the marinade and roll it to coat well.
- Leave the chicken in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours. It would be good if you could leave it in the refrigerator overnight.
- Cook the chicken in a large sauce pan over medium heat, till it is well done. It will take approximately 40 minutes. But make sure you do not overcook it.
- When you are cooking the chicken, add a little water to moisten it.
- Meantime, you can prepare the sauce and pita bread.
- Combine all the ingredients of the sauce and keep it aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine tomatoes, cucumber and onions together and sprinkle sumac on it.
- Add the other ingredients, combine well, and keep it aside.
- Once the chicken is done, shred it into fine strips.
- Place sufficient quantity of chicken on ¼ of the loaf.
- Top the chicken with the vegetables and pour sauce over it.
- Roll the bread. You can toast the bread for a few minutes or eat it as it is.