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Chicken Shawarma roll / Easy Homemade chicken shawarma recipe

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Chicken Shawarma roll / Learn how to make chicken shawarma roll at home/ Shawarma roll from scratch/ Shawarma kebab. Recipes with detailed step by step photos. Chicken Shawarma is a popular food from middle east cuisine which it is made of Pita bread, meat and tahini . In restaurants they use commercial Rotisserie to make Shawarma. Consisting of thin meat strips stacked in a cone like shape and roasted on a slowly turning vertical Rotisserie. However at home we can make at stove top in a pan or in oven. This very easy recipe to make at home.

HUMMUS

I like Chicken shawarma a lot and when i was in chennai i use to eat this regularly but once i shifted to bangalore i could not find good chicken shawarma near me place. so i started making this at home, however i do not make it regularly i make it once in a while.

Easy homemade Chicken shawarma recipe is very easy to make it as it requires no oven. You require only basic pantry ingredients for this chicken shawarma roll. Serve Chicken shawarma in Pita bread/ pita pocket. You can make homemade pita bread,i had already shared pita bread recipe in this blog. Or use store bought pita bread.

THALASSERY CHICKEN BIRYANI
What is chicken shawarma

Traditional Chicken shawarma is well marinated chicken stacked in a vertical rotisserie. And roasted in its own juices until perfect and tender And when we order for the shawarma they shave it from the roasted chicken and make a roll with pita bread, shawarma sauce/ tahini sauce or with mayonnaise and with few veggies.

How To make chicken shawarma

Take boneless chicken pieces and cut it into strips and marinate it with chili powder, coriander powder, lemon juice and salt. Cook the marinated chicken till it is cooked completely. Now take pita bread simmer it with some tahini sauce or mayonnaise and fill it with cooked chicken pieces and pickled veggies. Enjoy the homemade chicken shawarma.

Chicken Shawarma roll / Easy Homemade chicken shawarma recipe

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Chicken Shawarma roll / Learn how to make chicken shawarma roll at home/ Shawarma roll from scratch/ Shawarma kebab. Recipes with detailed step by step photos. Chicken Shawarma is a popular food from middle east cuisine which it is made of Pita bread, meat and tahini . In restaurants they use commercial Rotisserie to make Shawarma. Consisting of thin meat strips stacked in a cone like shape and roasted on a slowly turning vertical Rotisserie. However at home we can make at stove top in a pan or in oven. This very easy recipe to make at home.
– To make chicken shawarma kebab, Take mixing bowl add the cleaned boneless chicken strips and squeeze a lemon juice rub it
– To the chicken add chili powder, coriander powder,cumin powder, turmeric and salt and mix everything well with chicken
– Rest it for 30 minutes to 1 hour
– Heat a pan with some oil and add the marinated chicken cover and cook till the chicken is completely cooked
– Mean while pickle the veggies, In a bowl take all the cut veggies squeeze lemon juice and add salt mix well and keep aside
– Chicken is completely allow it to cool for sometime
– Cut the cooked chicken pieces into small chunks
Chicken shawarma:
– Take a parchment or baking paper and place one cooked pita bread and simmer it with mayonnaise / tahini
– Place some cooked chicken pieces
– Add some pickled veggies and add more mayonnaise if required and roll it
– You can serve chicken shawarma with any dip of your choice
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Resting time 1 hr
Total Time 1 hr 50 mins
Course Appetizer, Main Course
Cuisine Middle eastern

Ingredients
  

For chicken shawarma

  • 500 gms Chicken boneless
  • 1 tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 tsp Cumin powder
  • 1 tbsp Coriander powder
  • 2 tbsp Chili powder
  • 1/4 tsp Turmeric
  • 1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
  • Salt
  • Oil

To make Picked veggies

  • 1 Cucumber Cut into julienne
  • 1 Tomato Cut into julienne
  • 1 Carrot Cut into julienne
  • 1 tbsp Lemon juice
  • Salt

Other ingredients

  • Mayonnaise or Tahini or Shawarma sauce
  • Pita bread

Instructions
 

  • To make chicken shawarma kebab, In a mixing bowl take Cleaned boneless chicken add chili powder, coriander powder,cumin powder, turmeric and salt , mix everything well with chicken
  • Squeeze some lemon juice over the chicken and mix it. Rest it for 30 minutes to 1 hour
  • Heat a pan with some oil and add the marinated chicken cover and cook till the chicken is completely cooked it takes 20-25 minutes
  • Mean while pickle the veggies, In a bowl take all the cut veggies squeeze lemon juice and add salt mix well and keep aside
  • Chicken is completely allow it to cool for sometime
  • Cut the cooked chicken pieces into small chunks

Chicken shawarma

  • Take a parchment or baking paper and place one cooked pita bread and simmer it with mayonnaise / tahini and add pickled vegetables
  • Place some cooked chicken pieces and add more veggies and mayonnaise if required and roll it
  • You can serve chicken shawarma with any dip of your choice

Notes

I used mayonnaise in this recipe but you can use tahini or garlic yogurt dip or shawarma white sauce 
You can also make pita breads ahead and store it. 
 
Keyword Easy shawarma roll recipe, How to make shawarma roll at home, Pita bread, Shawarma to home

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4 Comments

  1. Vignesh says:

    5 stars
    Awesome dish, day by day this blog shows all the street food is really possibel to do at home with good taste this is really awesome

    1. hattyfoods says:

      Thank you..!

  2. Praveena Yuvaraj says:

    5 stars
    Luks delicious 💯

    1. hattyfoods says:

      Thank you

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