# Shawarma

This video shows how to make a delicious shawarma from scratch.

- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- boneless skinless chicken thighs
- chicken breast
- olive oil
- lemon juice
- yogurt
- minced garlic
- shawarma spices
- soft and chewy naan
- garlic sauce
- pickles
- pomegranate molasses
- cabbage slaw
- sumac

## Instructions

1. Use a mixture of boneless skinless chicken thighs and chicken breast.
2. Pound the chicken.
3. Cut the chicken.
4. For the marinade combine olive oil, lemon juice, yogurt, minced garlic, shawarma spices and the chicken.
5. Massage that in really well and ideally you want to let this marinate for several hours.
6. To cook the chicken you can line it on a vertical spit or you can just put it on some bamboo skewers and bake that in the oven until it reaches an internal temperature of 165.
7. Slice up the chicken into strips.
8. Stretch the dough out thinner and shaped it into a circle.
9. Cook it on an upside down heated pan.
10. Make some fresh homemade garlic sauce aka toum to go with this.
11. Add garlic sauce, pickles, chicken, pomegranate molasses and a cabbage slaw to the bread.
12. Roll the shawarma.
13. Brush with the leftover chicken juices, sprinkle with some sumac and then toast them in a hot pan until they're nice and crispy.
14. Serve it up with some fries, more garlic sauce on the side and it's ready to enjoy.

## Equipment

- knife
- mortar
- pestle
- baking dish
- vertical spit
- bamboo skewers
- oven
- heated pan
- brush

## Tips

- Marinate the chicken for several hours
- Bake chicken until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BVFIwlEb17A
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/51c6b945-9898-4aef-a2f1-ab63d4b63dae
- Extracted: 2025-05-08

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