afoona
Homemade Shawarma
Chicken

Homemade Shawarma

Fragrant, juicy homemade shawarma, seasoned with authentic Middle Eastern spices.

⏱ 1 hr 25 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Mix the strips of the chicken with the olive oil, lemon juice, cumin, paprika, smoked paprika, turmeric, cinnamon, cardamom, salt and black pepper and let sit 60 minutes.
    Bowl
  2. 2
    Heat the pan over high heat with a little oil and fry the onion until golden and crisp at the edges. Transfer to a plate.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  3. 3
    Add the chicken and fry 10–12 minutes in two batches, in a scorching pan, stirring occasionally, until browned and cooked through.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStoveFrying pan
    💡Sear in batches in a scorching pan: a crowded pan cools down, and the chicken steams instead of browning.
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
  4. 4
    Return the onion in the last minute and stir.
  5. 5
    Serve immediately in a pita with tahini, pickles and schug.
412calories
50 gprotein
3 gcarbs
21 gfat
● protein 50%● carbs 3%● fat 47%

Per serving (293 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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