Recipe: Perfect Chicken Shawarma

Chicken Shawarma.

You can cook Chicken Shawarma using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Shawarma

1. You need 2 of Chicken breast (skinless, cut into thin strips).
2. Prepare 2 Tablespoons of Yoghurt Curd / Set.
3. Prepare 2 Tablespoons of Lemon juice.
4. It's 1 Tablespoon of Garlic (minced).
5. Prepare 1/4 Teaspoon of Cardamom (powdered).
6. It's 1/4 Teaspoon of Cinnamon (powdered).
7. Prepare 1/4 Teaspoon of Black pepper (crushed).
8. You need 1/4 Teaspoon of Cloves (powdered).
9. You need 1/2 Teaspoon of Cumin (powdered).
10. It's 1/2 Teaspoon of Coriander powder.
11. You need 1/2 Teaspoon of Paprika Red chilli / powder.
12. You need 2 Tablespoons of Olive oil Vegetable oil /.
13. You need To Taste of Salt.
14. It's 1 of potato Medium.
15. You need 5 cloves of Garlic.
16. Prepare 2 Tablespoons of Lemon juice.
17. Prepare To Taste of Salt.
18. It's 4 Tablespoons of Olive oil Vegetable oil /.

Chicken Shawarma step by step

1. Mix all the above ingredients except the Olive oil, in a large bowl, and coat the cut chicken breasts with the marinade. Cover and let it sit in the fridge for couple of hours or more. (More the time, better the taste!).
2. While the chicken marinates let's make the thoom. Peel and cube the potato. Boil potato along with the garlic cloves until potato is soft. Remove and let cool..
3. Add the garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and salt into a blender and blend well. Add the boiled potato cubes and blend again, till you get a thick creamy saucy consistency..
4. Transfer to a bowl and chill in the fridge..
5. Back to chicken. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add the marinated chicken pieces to it. Fry the chicken till all the pinkish color is gone and it becomes golden brown. (About 10-15 min).
6. Sandwich time. Open the pita pockets and spread garlic sauce at the bottom half, layer with the shawarma chicken, top with some shredded lettuce, roasted tomatoes, pickled cucumbers anything you would like and coat with more garlic sauce..
7. Wrap half the sandwich with aluminium foil and toast either in the sandwich maker or on a tawa till desired degree of crispiness of the bread..
8. Munch away :).

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