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Diy pita recipe for shawarma. Petersburg-style shawarma: not fast food, but a work of art & nbsp

My children are very fond of shawarma in any form and today I want to present you a recipe for shawarma that is made in pita. What's interesting is that I make such a shawarma in the evening, completely, that is, even seasoned with sauce and until the morning in the refrigerator it does not become limp, it does not soften and the children safely take it with them to school as an additional lunch when they have many lessons.

Here is her (shawarma in pita) recipe:

1. As always, we will prepare all the necessary ingredients


Let's make such cute pita (I wrote about their preparation in the recipe "") or, in extreme cases, buy pita in the store. This is not a problem now.


2. Let's start with chicken meat... To do this, beat off the chicken fillet with a kitchen hammer and cut into strips and pieces. Who can do it. I didn’t succeed in thinly slicing the meat right away, since the chicken had already melted by that time and it was extremely difficult to chop finely (it is better, of course, to engage in slicing when the meat is still slightly frozen).


Add the necessary spices to it, mix


and fry in a pan (since, I think that not everyone has an electric grill at home, let alone a vertical one. Moreover, it turns out this way faster than grilling) until fully cooked. And now, after frying, chop it with a knife to create the feeling of a real grilled chicken.


3. In parallel with the chicken, we are engaged in vegetables. To do this, shred cabbage with thin strips,


4.Finely grate Korean carrots on a carrot grater


5.and mix them with salt with the effort of your hands so that the vegetables give a little juice and leave them for a while to soak with your own juice.


6. In passing, chop pickled cucumbers into thin, long strips. You can add a couple more here fresh cucumbers, a couple fresh tomatoes, but firstly, at that moment I did not have these products, and secondly, I myself do not like them very much. So, in matters of filling, it is a matter of taste for everyone, and everyone decides for himself what products to put in shawarma.


7. Next, prepare the shawarma sauce (you can see its recipe here "Shawarma sauce - Simple and very tasty - you will lick your fingers")


8. And put all the ingredients in layers in the order in which your soul tells you. We fill the entire filling with a tablespoon of the prepared sauce. And that's it - you can enjoy the wonderful taste of homemade homemade fast food, cooked from start to finish with your own hands.


Enjoy your meal!

Cooking time: PT01H00M 1 h.

Shawarma is nourishing, delicious snack loved by many of us. However, it is no secret that it is not so easy to buy and taste high-quality, fresh shawarma. Therefore, I propose to cook shawarma at home and enjoy its excellent taste. Of course, the meat cooked for this at home snack will be different from the oriental meat cooked on the vertical grill. But on the other hand, you will know that the meat is fresh and of high quality, and if you wish, it can be made quite tasty. Let's cook shawarma at home.

To make shawarma you will need (2 servings):

    300-400 g chicken breast fillet *;

    100 g lettuce leaves (optional);

    4 cakes Ladushki **;

    1 fresh cucumber;

    1 pickled and / or pickle;

    ½ onion;

    1 clove of garlic;

    vegetable oil(for frying meat);

    salt, black pepper, curry - to taste.

    4 tbsp. l. mayonnaise ***;

    1 garlic clove, passed through a garlic press;

    freshly ground pepper mixture - to taste.

* - you can use other meat according to your taste.

** - can be used thin pita, pitu what you like best.

    Wash and dry the vegetables. Tomato, cucumber, onion chop finely, add finely chopped pickled and / or pickled cucumber. Vegetable filling ready for the shawarma.

    Now let's prepare meat for homemade shawarma. To do this, you need to warm up the vegetable oil well, add a coarsely chopped clove of garlic to it and heat it. Take care not to burn the garlic. Remove the garlic from the oil. On garlic oil fry finely chopped fillets until golden brown chicken breasts with the addition of salt, freshly ground black pepper and curry.

    Let's prepare the shawarma sauce. To do this, you must mix all the ingredients specified for its preparation. The sauce is ready.

    Dry the pita bread a little in a pan (it is convenient to use the grill, but if you wish, you can not dry the pita bread at all). Put salad leaves and vegetable filling on pita bread.

    Add the meat filling.

    Add the sauce prepared in advance. As a rule, the sauce is added at the very end, when the shawarma is already rolled, but if you like a lot of sauce, then add it now and a little at the very end of cooking.

    Roll homemade shawarma into a tight roll. Roll the paper underneath to keep the sauce from spilling out, and place the shawarma in a small plastic bag to make it easier to eat. Add more sauce if desired.

    If you are cooking shawarma for several people at once, then it is quite nice to serve shawarma by placing it in tall glasses. So it will look very aesthetically pleasing, and the sauce will not pour out.

Interesting articles

It just so happened that there was no shawarma in the city on the Neva. There was a shawarma. It's like a curb and curb. Well, the Petersburgers did not like to speak Moscow. For many years everything was in order, and only recently, like mushrooms after rain in the Northern capital, stalls with shawarma began to appear. "Komsomolskaya Pravda" tried to understand the situation and find out what the difference is.

EAST IS A DELICATE MATTER

How to properly prepare this miracle, invented in the Middle East? Searches for the real primordial recipe on the Internet were unsuccessful. And all because it is not known who and where first came up with it. hearty dish... Either the Turks, or the Arabs, or someone else. Only one thing is clear: as soon as the food was invented, it immediately gained wild popularity and the chefs began their experiments with the recipe. Packed in pita - one dish, in lavash - already another. Sauces were replaced, ingredients were added, different meats were used. The name of the dish also changed. Shawarma, shawarma, shawarma, shuarma, shaferma, donar, dener kebab - these are not all options. As a result, chefs cooked in different ways and called them in their own way, without adhering to strict rules. Hence the confusion with the names and recipes. The devil himself will break his leg if he tries to figure it out. Desperate to get answers on the Internet, "Komsomolskaya Pravda" went to the chefs to find out which version of the name of the dish was correct - Moscow or St. Petersburg. And is there a difference in the composition of shawarma and shawarma.

THOUSAND AND ONE RECIPE

Chicken, salad, onion, sauce. Only we add more red sauce, - explained the cook and the seller in the stall near the Staraya Derevnya metro station. Since this network sells shawarma, I didn't even stutter about chicken instead of chicken. He only asked if they knew about the differences between the Moscow and St. Petersburg names of the dish. Did not know. Explained. - And I kept wondering why they write differently, - the girl-seller was surprised. - I thought it was so right. We in Dagestan say "shawarma". I'm going further. Shawarma used to be sold in Bistro near the Chkalovskaya metro station. Now on the menu is shawarma.

Our cook has changed. The current one prepares according to a new recipe, with red sauce and cabbage, - explained in the institution. Previously, the dish consisted only of white garlic Sause, there was no cabbage. Only chicken, tomatoes, cucumbers, some lettuce, onions and sauce. Shawarma was elongated, crispy pita bread, juicy and tasty. Now it is almost square, it has a lot of cabbage, and the sauce is spicy. In a word, shawarma. By the way, they started adding cabbage in the capital. In the city on the Neva, chefs have long considered the addition of this element to be bad form. I was informed about this in one of the oldest shawarms. - The recipe for the dish depends on the chef, as does the name. Someone adds potatoes, someone cabbage, or Korean carrot... They can combine everything at once and mix the white and red sauces too. In general, this is what they do in Moscow. In the northern capital, for a long time they tried to preserve the tradition, but now new establishments are appearing, and more and more often you can stumble upon shawarma. That is, it is not at all what they were looking for, - they shared with the KP journalist in Shaverma on the corner of Nevsky and Liteiny Prospekt. - That is, if you do not want to be disappointed, it is better to ask what is inside? - Of course. In a normal establishment, you will always be told what is included.

IN SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT SHAVERME

Where can you find that legendary Petersburg shawarma, about which they say: “I didn't eat it - I went to Petersburg in vain”? Without cabbage, potatoes and other additives? As it turned out, in our city several thousand people are engaged in the search for the perfect shawarma. All of them are in the group "Reviews of shawarma in St. Petersburg and the region" in the social network VKontakte. There they write about their trips to public catering and share their impressions of what they have eaten. There is the same group in Belokamennaya, only there they observe shawarma. In no case, do not try to write the name of this dish in Moscow in the Petersburg group. You will be eaten alive, because the participants are firmly convinced that in the Northern capital there is only room for shawarma. In general, there is an opinion that a real resident of the city on the Neva feels a loss of appetite, coupled with indigestion, if he hears or reads the word "shawarma". We contacted the administrators of the St. Petersburg group.

How did you come up with the idea to create such a group and how often do you have reviews? - Created by analogy with the Moscow one. It turned out that this topic is also in demand in the cultural capital. On average, three to four reviews are published per day. Given that the group is small, it turns out that the subscribers are quite active. - Did you manage to find the best shawarma in St. Petersburg? - The fact of the matter is that these searches are subjective and depend on personal taste. Everyone needs a different set of ingredients and a different amount. Therefore, we have introduced quite a few evaluation criteria so that subscribers can get the most useful information from each review. However, since the posts are received, it means that people are still looking, trying to understand what kind of ideal shawarma she is. But everyone has their own.

WHERE TO TRY:

- ON THE CORNER OF NEVSKY AND LITEIN AVENUE. The place is truly historic. They say this red sign was among the first to appear in the city. Almost every tourist who finds himself nearby considers it his duty to drop in for a delicacy right here, so the fame of this institution has spread. They say that the group "Kirpichi" sang about this shawarma. - AT THE CROSSING OF BELA KUNA AND SOFISKAYA STREETS. The second in legend and the first in danger, as it is located in Kupchino. Often among the visitors there are not very benevolent personalities. Nevertheless, the dish itself is prepared very tasty here. - ON THE CORNER OF THE STREETS OF YAROSLAV GASHEK AND KUPCHINSKAYA. Another well-known institution throughout the city. Also, you may get caught not very friendly visitors, but the risk is worth it - the local shawarma is the largest. It weighs more than a pound, and not every adult man is able to overpower this portion. If you feel a brutal hunger, this is the place for you. - "AT DZHAMAL" ON DUMSKAYA. Young people walking on Dumskaya Street claim that shawarma is prepared here no less tasty than on the corner of Nevsky and Liteiny Prospekt. And this is a serious statement and a guarantee of quality. We went on a spree on Dumskaya Street - drop by Jamal.

A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE NAME:

In Moscow - shawarma, in St. Petersburg - shawarma, in Tver, located between them - shawarma. In Yekaterinburg and Perm, shawarma is when it is in lavash, and shawarma is in pita. If you want to taste this dish in the Czech Republic, forget the words "shawarma" and "shawarma", no one will understand what you need. But if you order a gyros, you will get what you are looking for. In Bulgaria, the name "duner" is used. Shawarma sellers are jokingly called shawarmen, shawarmaers, shawarmeers and shawarmacho.

Hardly anyone can refuse a delicious shawarma, especially in the summer, when there are a lot of seasonal vegetables and you don't want to spend a lot of time cooking, but rather be outdoors.

It is called Shawarma only in St. Petersburg, in other cities the name of Shawarma is often heard. There is no difference between these dishes, these are two different names the same dish. In some establishments, there is a rule: shawarma is wrapped in pita bread, and shawarma is wrapped in pita bread.

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What is Arabian Shawarma in Chicken Pita?

Delicious homemade shawarma in pita takes pride of place on the table as a quick snack, lunch, dinner and even a festive meal.

Such shawarma is wrapped in arabic flatbread- pitu. She is bread made from unleavened dough... The filling consists of vegetable salad, meat and sauce.

You can take any vegetables, most often these are: tomatoes, cucumbers, shredded cabbage, lettuce. You can also find options with Korean carrots, Chinese cabbage, mushrooms, herbs, cheese, etc.

This is an oriental dish with Turkish roots... It was first prepared by a Turk in Germany in the 70s. Since that time, tents have appeared in all cities, in which fried meat is cooked and, together with vegetables, is wrapped in a flat cake or pita bread.

The simultaneous existence of two names for the same dish is explained by the difference in the pronunciation of the word depending on the region of residence.

How to cook shawarma in pita, watch the video:

Difference from a classic dish

Shawarma, unlike ordinary shawarma, is much more satisfying and nutritious due to the shell. Shawarma is wrapped in a thin cake - and shawarma - in pita.

It is difficult to say which of them is tastier, depends on individual tastes, someone constantly takes shawarma in pita bread, and someone prefers the option in pita bread.

A very wide variety of shawarma recipes pleases gourmets: open.

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Homemade recipe

Cooking time- 50 minutes.

Difficulty level- average.

Type of dish- the second.

Energy value for 1 piece- 860 kcal.

Squirrels- 41.4 gr.

Fats- 27.5 gr.

Carbohydrates- 107.3 gr.

Ingredients:


For the sauce:

  • mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons;
  • sour cream - 60 gr;
  • greens (any: dill, parsley, basil, cilantro) - 1 bunch;
  • garlic - 4 cloves;
  • sesame oil - 1 tsp;

How it's done:


Kitchen appliances and utensils:

  • working surface;
  • plate for ingredients;
  • pan;
  • plate;
  • board;
  • press for garlic.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

  1. We prepare the ingredients. We cut vegetables into strips, take about half of one piece of each vegetable, depending on how many pieces of shawarma you will cook. We fry or bake the meat to taste, also finely chop. You can take any meat - chicken, beef, duck or turkey to taste.
  2. Cooking the sauce. Mix 3-4 tablespoons of sour cream in one bowl, half soft processed cheese(about 1 tablespoon), 1 teaspoon soy sauce, mustard, olive oil, Provencal herbs, finely chopped greens and garlic crushed through a press. Mix all the ingredients well until smooth and put them in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes, let the sauce cool.


  3. Cut the pita in half. There is a "pocket" in the pita, in which we will put all the ingredients.


  4. First, add the sauce and use a spoon or brush to grease the inside of the pita well with the sauce.


  5. Then add some meat, vegetables and some more meat on top.


  6. Add the sauce on top as well.


  7. Then more vegetables and meat, and onion sauce on top.


  8. We put the ingredients in the order you like. Ready! Bon Appetit!


Variations in serving and decorating dishes

Shawarma in pita is a simple dish to treat your friends or loved ones. Are you wrapped up and didn't have time to cook dinner? Cook so healthy and delicious shawarma in pita! However, such a dish must be presented beautifully. To surprise your guests even more, follow the tips below. To serve shawarma in pita to the table, you can do the following:

  • Serve shawarma in pita to each guest on a separate plate.
  • Decorate the plate with sauce, as is done in restaurants. For example, take a paintbrush and paint a "drop" of sauce.
  • Serve the shawarma in pita on a beautiful wide rectangular platter so that all guests can take a bite.
  • Serve the shawarma on a plate, and put festive napkins with patterns under the bottom of the plate.

You can collect this shawarma from any other ingredients you like.

Video recipe

Watch this video to learn more about each step of making pita shawarma. The recipe is as simple as possible, but it still requires care. You can definitely repeat it in your kitchen if you follow the instructions above. Happy viewing!

Now you know that cooking shawarma in pita will not take you much time, and you can easily and quickly make it for your friends, guests or loved ones. Having tried to cook such a shawarma once, you will fall in love with this recipe and will constantly make it not only for guests, but also for yourself, as a quick snack. Agree, such a dish is really the easiest to prepare and does not require any special ingredients. Have you ever cooked such a shawarma? Do you like to make it in pita bread or in pita? Share your impressions of the recipe below in the comments!