# Chicken Shawarma

A delicious and easy to make Chicken Shawarma, the greatest Lebanese sandwich of all time.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
- olive oil
- tomato paste
- garlic
- spices
- onions
- lemon
- pita bread
- garlic sauce
- air-fried french fries
- Arabic pickles
- gochujang
- ginger
- sesame oil
- honey
- rice vinegar
- soy sauce
- chicken breast
- salt
- pepper
- cornstarch
- garlic powder
- neutral oil
- non-fat Greek yogurt
- light mayo
- celery
- crispy bacon
- mustard
- pickle relish
- iceberg lettuce
- ground beef
- cheese
- sesame seeds

## Instructions

1. Pat dry 2 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
2. Marinate chicken thighs with olive oil, tomato paste, garlic, and a bunch of spices.
3. Add marinated chicken thighs and sliced onions to a sheet pan.
4. Squeeze lemon juice over the chicken and onions.
5. Broil the chicken for 15-17 minutes, flipping halfway through, to get a distinctive shawarma flavor.
6. Slice the cooked chicken.
7. Spread garlic sauce on a pita bread.
8. Add chicken, air-fried french fries, and Arabic pickles to the pita bread.
9. Roll the pita bread tightly.
10. Brush the rolled pita with an olive oil and tomato paste mixture.
11. Toast the shawarma in a pan.
12. Serve the chicken shawarma with additional garlic sauce on the side.
13. Cube up chicken breast.
14. Season the chicken breast with salt, pepper, cornstarch, and garlic powder.
15. Cook the chicken in a pan until crispy.
16. Make the sauce in the same pan using gochujang, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, honey, rice vinegar, and soy sauce.
17. Add the crispy chicken to the sauce and mix.
18. Serve the Korean fried chicken over rice and garnish with red chilies and green onions.
19. Boil potatoes until they are fork-tender.
20. Smash the boiled potatoes down on a sheet pan.
21. Drizzle neutral oil over the smashed potatoes and season them up with salt and pepper.
22. Bake the potatoes at 400°F until golden brown and super crispy.
23. Combine non-fat Greek yogurt, light mayo, lemon juice, garlic, chives, dill, salt, and pepper in a bowl to create the healthier base for the potato salad.
24. Dice celery and crispy bacon.
25. Add celery and crispy bacon to the yogurt mixture and mix well.
26. Add the crispy smashed potatoes to the mixture and gently fold them in.
27. Serve the crispy smashed potato salad, garnished with chives.
28. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
29. Cook the chicken breasts in a pan until browned and cooked through.
30. Slice the cooked chicken breasts.
31. Add lemon juice, cream, and cheese to the cooked orzo pasta in the same pan and stir.
32. Serve the lemon chicken orzo pasta with sliced chicken on top.
33. Cook ground beef in a pan and season with salt and pepper.
34. Prepare the Big Mac sauce by combining mayonnaise, mustard, pickle relish, and spices in a bowl.
35. Layer iceberg lettuce, cooked ground beef, onions, and shredded cheese in a wooden bowl.
36. Drizzle the Big Mac sauce over the salad.
37. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the Big Mac salad.

## Equipment

- sheet pan
- oven
- tongs
- knife
- cutting board
- pan
- pot
- glass bowl
- whisk
- bowl

## Tips

- For the potato salad, make sure to bake the potatoes until they are super crispy, not just slightly crispy.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@ice.karimcooks/video/7530291236133981454?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7550004359083755022
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/dbad6cef-54ae-42e3-ad1c-ce24464d0995
- Extracted: 2025-09-14

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