1To make the marinade, combine a healthy amount of yogurt, a squeeze of lemon juice, a spoonful of hot pepper paste or tomato paste, any form of garlic (using toum), healthy heaps of shawarma spice blend, salt if your rub doesn't have any, and a light drizzle of oil.
2Put on a glove and massage the marinade into the chicken.
3Marinate the chicken for as long as you can, from three seconds to two days.
4When ready to cook, throw beef tallow on a heated sheet tray.
5Spread your chicken into a thin layer on the sheet tray.
6Throw the chicken into the oven on a high broil for 10-15 minutes, flipping midway through.
7Add the cooked chicken to a bowl lined with foil.
8Place natural charcoal in the bowl to smoke the chicken.
9On a hot oil flat top, cook a couple of corn tortillas.
10Flip the tortillas, then add cheese to them.
11Once the cheese is melted, add a little toum (garlic sauce) and a couple of Arabic style pickles to each tortilla.
12Add your beautiful chicken shawarma to each tortilla.
13Quickly fold the tacos up.
14Cook down a mixture of hot pepper paste, water, and oil to create a hot sauce glaze.
15Gently paint the hot sauce glaze on the tacos.
16Dunk the tacos in some chipotle sour cream.
Ingredients
2 lb chicken thighs
3 garlic cloves, peeled
2 Tbsp hot pepper paste
0.25 cup yogurt
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp beef tallow or oil
0.5 tsp cumin
1 tsp coriander
0.5 tsp allspice
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp cardamom
0.25 tsp clove
0.5 tsp msg
Salt
12 -16 corn tortillas
1 -2 cups Cheese of choice
store bought garlic sauce
Wild cucumber pickles
0.25 cup hot pepper paste
2 tbsp water
2 tbsp oil
Salt
2 -3 chipotles in adobo, blended
1.5 cup sour cream
1 tsp paprika
chili powder
2 tbsp honey
Salt
Equipment
sheet trayovenfoilbowlnatural charcoalflat top
Tips
The key to shawarma is getting really thin slices of chicken.
Marinate the chicken until you lose patience, from three seconds to two days.
Use beef tallow on a heated sheet tray for cooking the chicken.
Use natural charcoal to smoke the chicken for added flavor.