Chicken Shawarma
Chicken Shawarma is a favorite Middle Eastern dish of ours. Though we didn't have a cone of meat to make our shawarmas, we did try to bring as much of the flavor into the chicken as possible. This dish will have you and your family wanting more, so you might want to double up the recipe. Enjoy it with the spicy sauce as well to kick it up a notch!
Shawarma is a Middle Eastern dish traditionally made with lamb or mutton, but now a days its made with additionally beef, chicken, turkey, or veal. Normally its also made on a vertical rotisserie packed with meat. You stack the meat on top of each other so that the fat drips down and the flavor is compounded. If you’ve never seen a meat tornado, you’ve got to find a place to see it. You’ll most likely smell the delicious aroma before you ever see it though.
If you’ve never had a chicken shawarma don’t worry, you’re not alone. If you’ve ever seen the first avengers, they made them famous by talking about them at the end of the movie and eating them in a busted up restaurant. My first introduction to a shawarma was a restaurant in Memphis. Casablanca is a delicious Mediterranean restaurant that’s food is worth the trip. My recipe for spicy chili sauce doesn’t do their sauce justice, but I gave it my best shot.
Typically you would also have shawarma with a spicy red sauce and a garlic sauce called toum. I didn’t end up making it in this recipe, but I’ll be sure to post a recipe for toum in our next version of this. You would blend the spicy sauce and toum together to make an amazing topping for any sandwich. For our chicken shawarma recipe, we added our tzatziki sauce on top.
Welp that’s it for our chicken shawarma recipe. As always, we hope you enjoy this recipe and from our kitchen to yours, cheers!
Chicken Shawarma
Recipe details
- 2 people
- Prep time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 15 Minutes Total time: 30 min
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