10 Shawarma Recipes

10 Shawarma Recipes

HomeCooking Tips, Recipes10 Shawarma Recipes

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Shawarma! The right way! @shelbyscanada

Hearty flavorful and portable shawarma is a street meat with Levantine Arabic origins. One of the best street foods around shawarma’s incredible flavor comes in part from the cooking process where the meat is slowly turned on a vertical spit for hours — the fat drips down keeping the meat nice and moist. Browse our collection of shawarma recipes and get inspired to make your own shawarma at home.

You probably don’t have a rotating spit in your kitchen but don’t panic: you can still enjoy homemade shawarma by cooking it on the stovetop. Plus this recipe is ready in just over an hour.

This chicken shawarma sandwich gets a lot of flavor from the marinade that combines vinegar cardamom and mixed spices a mix also known as 7 spice or baharat. However if you can't find the mixed spices you can easily make your own from black pepper allspice fenugreek cinnamon ground cloves nutmeg and ground ginger.