Amazing Shawarma Recipes

About Chicken Shawarma Recipe: Shawarma is vastly popular across the middle-east, specially Lebanon. Now, a popular street food as well, chicken shawarma has quickly garnered appreciation across the globe, particularly in India. You can prepare this easy shawarma at home as a side dish for brunch or for evening snacks.Ingredients in Chicken Shawarma: Chicken baked in a yogurt marinade, rolled up in pita bread and served with tahini or mayonnaise. This seems like the perfect dish for your evening binge eating.

While you can’t beat the experience of buying and eating it from a street vendor, we think our homemade version is pretty darn tasty. Our approach? Marinate the chicken overnight to infuse it with a mixture of shawarma spices, and then roast it in the oven until it’s tender, juicy perfection.

Read on for more information and tips on this street food classic. And if you're looking for more Middle Eastern inspiration, try out our homemade falafel next. Traditional chicken shawarma is basically well-marinated chicken, layered on a vertical rotisserie or spit where it's slow-roasted for days--in its own juices and fat--until perfectly tender and extra flavorful! To serve it, the joint owner would typically shave a layer of shawarma off the spit and pile it up into a pita pocket, jazz it with tahini sauce and heaps upon heaps of fresh toppings!

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Though shawarma is also made from lamb, beef and turkey, I’ve stuck with chicken, because there seemed more than enough possibility to explore with that alone, though much the same technique could be adapted for other meats. Most recipes call for chicken thigh, with only Joudie Kalla (who writes in her book Baladi, “who doesn’t like shawarma? It is a staple of Palestine … dore it – as long as it’s done right”) using breast instead. My testers and I all agree that, tender as it is, it also feels a bit dry in comparison with the thigh; that said, the fatty chicken skin in Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi’s recipe on the Ottolenghi website doesn’t have many fans around here, either. Much as we love crisp chicken skin, it stays a bit chewy here, and the thighs seem to have enough fat in them to keep them basted during the relatively short cooking time.

Middle Eastern food is known for its generous use of herbs and spices. Maybe that’s why we love it so much! Shakshuka is one of our go-to breakfasts around here, and we can’t get enough of Kofta Kebabs. And their Batata Harra just may be the tastiest potato dish ever. But there’s something special about shawarma. It’s iconic. And once you try it, you’ll see why!

There are dozens of iconic street foods, and whether it’s elotes in Mexico, dan dan noodles in China, or even a hot dog in Chicago, we love them all. But of all these street food classics, none is more iconic than Shawarma. Tracing its origins back to the Ottoman Empire, this succulent spit-roasted meat is now popular, not only in Israel, but all around the world.

Recipes are included :

Street Style Chicken Shawarma

Cauliflower Shawarma with Tahini Sauce

Beef Shawarma and Broccoli Stir-fry

Rotisserie Chicken Shawarma on the Kamado (BBQ)

Beef Shawarma & Corn Stir-fry in Sweet Chili Sauce - Side Dish -

Chicken shawarma

Shawarma salad

Chicken Shawarma w/ White Sauce and Fluffy Yellow Rice

Chicken and felafil shawarma

Chicken Shawarma Bork

Emily’s Easy Chicken Shawarma

Classic chicken shawarma

Marinated and baked chicken strips - shawarma djej

Ala czen shawarma It's homemade

Marinated and baked beef strips - shawarma lahmeh

Chicken Shawarma with tahini yogurt sauce

Beef shawarma

Shawarma sandwich

Shawarma bread

Toasted shawarma with veggies

Shawarma from scratch

Shawarma red chili sauce

Arabic shawarma

Mexican Shawarma Tacos

Shawarma

Shawarma platter

Chicken shawarma masala

Lebanese Style Shawarma Pizza

Chicken tikka pizza shawarma

Chicken vegetable shawarma

Shawarma with homemade hummus

Chicken Tortilla Shawarma

Shawarma Pasta