I made LEGIT CHICKEN SHAWARMA sandwiches at home and it was amazing!
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- I'll show you how to make Authentic Chicken Shawarma sandwiches with moist seasoned meat and an amazing grilled flavor right at home. No more flavorless chicken strips, and no more over cooked meat. Welcome to my 1000 Subscriber special.
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Toum and Shatta (Garlic and Chilli sauce) Recipe ➔ • Fluffy Lebanese garlic...
Basim Alshami Shawarma video ➔ • باسم الشامي شاورما شهي...
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Making the marinade
02:41 Preparing the chicken
04:22 Cooking techniques compared
08:18 How to assemble an authentic sandwich
11:26 Taste test and review
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Ingredients:
1kg (2lbs) Boneless skinless chicken thighs
4-6 Garlic cloves
4 Bay Leaves
1 Cup of Yoghurt
4 Tbsp tomato paste
3 Tbsp Lemon Juice
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp White Vinegar
2 Tsp Salt
1 Tsp Ground Cumin
1 Tsp Garlic Powder
1 Tsp Boharat or All Spice
1 Tsp Onion Powder
1/2 Tsp Chilli Flakes
1/2 Tsp Ground Coriander
1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
1/2 Tsp Smoked Paprika
1/2 Tsp Turmeric
1/2 Tsp Black Pepper
1/2 Tsp Ground Ginger
1/2 Tsp Cloves
1/4 Tsp Nutmeg
1/4 Tsp Ground Cardamom
Sandwich Ingredients:
Lavash or Lebanese bread
Salty Lebanese pickled cucumbers or cornichons
Toum sauce
Chilli sauce
Marinade directions:
1. Butterfly or pound your chicken thighs until they are 1/2 cm or 1/4 inch thick
2. Crush your bay leaves using a pestle and mortar, then add to a bowl with the remaining spices
3. Mince your garlic and mix with the Yoghurt, Tomato Paste, Lemon Juice, Olive oil, white vinegar and the spice mix. Stir until well mixed and then add your chicken in to the bowl and mix to ensure each piece is well coated in the marinade
4. Place your chicken in the fridge for a minimum of 12 hours so the marinade can penetrate the chicken
Oven Grilled shawarma directions:
1. Slice your chicken thighs into strips about 1/2 cm or 1/4 inch thick
2. Using a metal skewer, pierce your chicken strips all along one side and slide them onto the skewer
3. With a second metal skewer, pierce the opposite end of the chicken, so that the chicken strips are suspended between both skewers
4. Line a baking sheet with foil, then place the skewers on the edge of the sheet. They should be floating above the sheet not sitting in it (you may need to use a deep baking dish instead)
5. Place your tray in the oven with your grill or broiler set to medium and cook for 3-5 minutes per side, rotating between them. Place them back in the over for 2-3 more minutes until slightly charred. Temperature of the chicken should read 74c or 165f when done.
Pan Grilled directions:
1. Heat a grill pan or griddle and place a few chicken thighs in it, but don't overcrowd the pan.
2. Cook them on medium high heat, flipping them every 3 minutes until cooked through
3. Remove and slice into thin strips
To make a shawarma sandwich:
1. Place a piece of bread on your work surface and slather on a couple of tablespoons of Toum or garlic sauce
2. Add your chicken pieces on top, as well as some pieces of sliced pickle
3. Add some chilli sauce to the sandwich then roll it up and seal
4. Place your sandwiches in a grill pan of griddle, and weigh them down with something heavy. Allow them to sear for 30-60 seconds per side until grill marks form. - Навчання та стиль
Hello and welcome to everyone watching this video in 2021. Hope you all have a great time watching this and make some amazing Toum and Shatta to eat with your dishes. We used this in our chicken shawarma recipe, so be sure to check that out if you're looking for something delicious to serve this with ua-cam.com/video/kmjkkapeCX4/v-deo.html.
If you enjoyed this recipe and the sauces blew you away, then consider supporting us on patreon so we can continue to put out more awesome videos like this www.patreon.com/MiddleEats
Nice one man. How bout next one you make Labanese Farouj Meshwi 😍🙌 ?
Brother, are you planning a video on the pickles? the store bought ones are awful.
I really reallllllly like your channel plzzzz never stopppp! 😭😭💗💗
just discovered ur channel and ur making my fav food in easy and simple ways (i'd say maybe try adding arabic titles to ur videos to reach a bigger audience
Congratulations on your 1.6k subscribers :) hahah
Happy new year 2023 :)
Which spices should we add to the marinade?
"Yes."
Haha 😂 favourite comment so far!
@@MiddleEats loool thanks! Amazing video and channel btw.
Could you give some info on what those pink pickles they put in Shawarma are? Really love those. Also if we want to put fries in, any best way to prepare them?
Those were pieces of pickled turnip. A lot of the time pickles in the middle East are made using cauliflower, carrot, turnip and cucumber in the same jar. Maybe you can find it at an Arab store.
that is called middle eastern food
@@MiddleEats is it similar to gardinaira? Or jardinaira however you spell it...
I’ve had individual pickled things from Lebanon and Israel and Iran but nothing that’s like a medley.
You're the channel I've been waiting for man. As a second-generation Arab, I've always had a slight sense of guilt in not knowing how to cook the food I grew up on. I only started recently to dive back in. So thank you and keep up the good work!
I'd also like to suggest a Mulukhiyah video maybe?
Thank you, I'm glad I can help you. It's really important to stay connected with out culinary heritage.
I've previously done Molokhiya, but it was the Egyptian version. Check it out if you're interested! Maybe I'll do another one in the future from a different country.
Same here!! Thanks for the videos
@@MiddleEats Please consider doing the full leaf Molokhiya as we do it in Lebanon! with a side of onion vinegar sauce!
Where are you from?
@@2.2.7.4 I am from Poland :)
Just wanted to come back to this video to give my praises. This is, without a doubt, hands down, the BEST recipe for that restaurant-level chicken shawarma. So many other recipes were maybe 70-80% there, but were always missing something. I followed the recipe completely with the exact ingredients that Obi mentioned, including the toppings and sauces. Undeniably the best source for learning to cook Middle Eastern cuisine on UA-cam.
Growing up, I never really understood the nuances of the various cuisines across the Middle East, from Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Moroccan, etc. Growing up, I simply considered it all to be "Arabic food" (which is a disrespect to the various cuisines and their individual cultures). Love that this channel breaks down the wheres, whys, and the hows for each dish. Thank you, Obi!
Woah really?! I've been searched the 'legit' one for few days now because my family miss this food ever since we moved from Qatar 2 years ago. Definitely will try this. Thank you so much for ur review.
I'm fasting rn because of Ramadan and this looks soooo good
Ramadan Mubarak
ikr its so hard to watch this while fasting but i cannot stop😭😂
It's over I'm bringing u here to make this!!
'fasting'
@@wolfura??
I would love a video on your flatbreads. As a baker, I have had to make my own pita bread since nothing in the stores in the US can compare to homemade!
Ok I'll start researching the bread recipes, which one in particular do you want to see first?
@@MiddleEats Lavash, Man'ouche/Man'oushe and Manakeesh/Manaquish with Za'ataar and labnah or halloumi.
@@MiddleEats saj!! There used to be a great recipe on UA-cam for one but can't find it!!!!
I love home made pita but I found that I like non yeast ones better than yeast.
I have to make them myself because I can’t find organic pita here in the USA.
@@Rasprogresshe wasn't asking you 😂
In the area we live there are no restaurants to get shawarma, so I wanted to make it at home, and this recipe along with the garlic sauce was AMAZING! thank you so much!
So glad you liked it! Thanks for trying it and toum! Send me some photos if you make it again.
Obi, I'm very impressed with the detail and authenticity your provide. You're the type of home cook who does a better job than 98% of professionals and amateurs in explaining how to cook something with great taste.
Thank you! It's all about making sure people can make the dishes as authentic as possible, while still being absolutely delicious. The detailed steps are there to make it more approachable.
"putting hummus in shawarma is a cardinal sin"..THANK YOU!! Spread the word! :D
Shots fired at Andong haha
i couldnt imagine someone doing that
@@samcates5308 haha he shouted out obi as well
Sorry but I'm not Christian... so I'll put Hummus whenever I see fit.
@@usmaniqbal9207 when I was in Jerusalem, almost everyone did it (and it was quite OK, especially with tahini)
I found this channel about two weeks ago. Man, has my diet gone out the window! I LOVE Middle Eastern food and you give me the confidence to make it at home! Thank you so much. Points for the cat!
Oops, well I'm glad you are at least enjoying the food 😅. Glad I could help you do that, I've always felt that it seemed unnecessarily intimidating, but then again that's the whole point of this channel, to fix it. No problem, she says Purr
@@MiddleEatsPurr-fekt 😊❤
This recipe is LEGIT. I followed the recipe exactly and used the grill pan method to cook it. I also followed the linked recipe for toum. The final result tasted like the real thing from overseas (tasted in Palestine and Jordan). This is one of the best I've ever tasted in the U.S. and I can hardly believe it was made in my own kitchen! Thank you for the recipes. Keep up the amazing videos!
I’ve always been curious about Middle Eastern cuisine, I’m so excited for these recipes!!!!
Thank you, I hope you enjoy them
The Lebanese fast food restaurants here in Ivory Coast have tons of stuff they add (or give as options) in their shawarma like onions, tomatoes, but my fav is red pickled cabbage. That garlic and pepper sauce is AMAZING 🤩
If you had a deeper baking tray to cook the meat on, one technique that could add great flavor is placing vegetables below the cooking chicken, so all the marinade, fat, and flavor dripping off the chicken is caught by the veggies! Great vid👍
My guy, you killing me. Now I want to eat soo baaad and it's the middle of the night. By the way, here in Russia people also love shawarma it's probably the most popular street food here.
Oh nice, that's good to know. It definitely is a popular late night food around the world!
Thank you for documenting these recipes
This looks so delicious, I love all your recipes and your videos are so clear. Your food is so authentic and its all in English!! Easy to follow and relatable to anyone living in the UK who wants to cook delicious cultural/ arabic food.
Please keep going!!
This just showed up in recommended. I am stoked to see that you have acquired so many subs in the amount of time between you making it and me seeing it. I love the content and happy to see you growing.
Thank you for introducing the concept of 'Shawarma Saturdays' to my life. I've been using other recipe for Shawarma for some time and really looking forward to giving yours/the skewer method a go (maybe next Saturday!). Subscribed!!
Thank you, it's definitely an easy to customise dish that can be served make your own style just like tacos. Hope you like the recipe.
I made your pitas last night and this shawarma today, and it was amazing. Thank you! You also have such clear, instructions and explanations and I also love the recipe being in the description too
Underrated channel for sure. You're very knowledgable and you make it easy for lousy cooks like me to follow your instructions. Keep it up!
Dude this is legit the best shawarma I've ever had.
I made the marinade almost exactly as you did, accidentally doubled the tumeric, and after tasting tripled the black pepper and chili, also added a pinch of MSG to ratchet it up a notch.
As for the chicken I went with half breast, half thigh. With this part I veered a bit farther from your recipe because I cooked it soovide and then only seared it on the pan. So I got an exact, and mouthwateringly soft, consistency on the inside of both the breast and the thigh. I also threw in the bag a couple throats for the taste and gelatin. The marinade and juices I reduced in a pot while searing the meat, so I could then coat the meat up with it without it being runny.
I also like to assemble my pita quite different than you, but the core element here is the marinade which came out fantastic.
This was the first video I ever saw by you, and I made this like two days later. This is now my new workdays lunch. Already recommended the recipe and your channel to anyone willing to listen.
soovide xD
You are so dedicated in finding out the best method for cooking the meat in a home setting! Thanks for your fine work!!
It's all about getting the right taste, texture and appearance for an authentic experience. Glad you liked it!
Not only is the dish absolutely delicious and impeccable, but the explanaiton is excellent and the presentation is very pleasant and as long as it needs to be. One of the best recipe videos on UA-cam out there! Thanks a lot.
Wow!. I'm impressed not only with the sandwich prep but with your presentation, videography and you getting to the point and not going all over the place with history, geography , etc.
This looks delicious! Best chicken shawarma I ever had was in Riyadh, loaded with the perfectly thick garlic sauce, pickles and fries. I loved paring it with an amazing fresh cool fruit juice you can find at the local fruit stand.
Dude let me tell you... This was by far the best shawarma I've ever made. Not only that, but I'd go as far as saying that this was one of the best dishes I've made in general. Awesome recipe, thanks for sharing!
I'm glad i found this channel. As a middle eastern student studying in the US, this is exactly the type of content I've been trying to find. Been wanting to replicate the good middle eastern food I grew up on for a while now!
I really appreciate the amount of time and dedication you put into your videos, specifically the care and attention to chicken cooking techniques and sharing the results with us. Really nice to watch, can't wait to cook this for my family soon! Thank you!
Top knotch content, man. Just found your channel and am loving it. Looking forward to more!
Thank you, hope you try the shawarma out!
I been trying to find a rlly good recipe for this for so long, thank you for this omg
wow this channel is exactly what i was waiting for all these years! an authentic step by step discription of my favourite middle eastern cuisine!! thank you!!!
Thank you so much for putting the ingredients and instructions on the description. So many places make you go to a site or whatever. You're a real MVP. Thank you.
Being Lebanese I just want to thank you for making the most authentic video I’ve ever watched! Toum chicken and pickles and optional fries is the real one and you did it perfectly! Thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Congrats on 1k subs! I found your channel from your Reddit posts, and just made lahmacun thanks to you - the sumac onions were killer.
Can't wait to try this shawarma marinade - sounds awesome!
That's one of my favourite recipes I've done so far, so incredibly delicious and like you said the onions are insane. They'll also go good with shawarma, or you can wrap the shawarma in Lahmacun instead of bread. So many delicious combinations to try!
Perfect and very detailed ! Thank u
Your channel has grown so quickly!! Very well-deserved!
just made these this weekend, I'm glad I did the oven grilled skewer method because they rendered out a LOT of fat while cooking. I think next time I do them I'm gonna leave them in for a little longer after the last flip though since I didn't quite get the char I was looking for with them. Tasted amazing.
You're doing great man.. Keep those awesome videos coming! Cheers and best of luck.
Thank you. Got some great things coming!
KITTY!! Bonus goodness! This recipe sounds great.
Amazing!!! THANK YOU for sharing, I am so glad I found your channel!
it's midnight and my mouth is watering. that looks freaking amazing.
Thank you, I hope you try it out!
Another great video and long waited authentic recipe...I know what I am making next Saturday
Amazing, can't wait to see how it turns out! Thanks for watching
Instantly subscribed! This is exactly what I'm looking for in a cooking channel.
An absolute delightful recipie.Thank you for teaching.
Wow I made this and it was delicious! Thanks for the video 😃
Thanks for trying it!
I made this today, and it was incredibly good! Thank you for a great video and recipe!
No problem at all. I'm glad to see you enjoyed it. Thanks for trying it.
Loving the channel, thanks so much!
Thank you very much! Love to see this
This recipe is AMAZING! Best shawarma spice recipe I've tried by far! It would work very well with beef filet as well
Thank you Scrooge, glad to hear it worked nice with beef too! I'll have to give that a try.
Bro I have no idea why I love watching your videos so much. Aside from the obvious amazing food and ease of following instructions, I think you come off as a genuine guy that anyone loves to have around WITHOUT being the “entertainer”.
Haha thanks! I'm just a guy cooking on the internet
absolutely love this channel. genuine care of food from the content creator with precise detail. middle eastern food is also totally underrated as its one of the best uses for so many of these ingredients. i think its better than italian!
I was linked this channel as a way to to try and jumpstart my inspiration in the kitchen again. And wow. The recipe(s) look like so much fun :D Thank you!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
Very glad this channel's picking up! And excellent recipe!
One tip which imo makes the skewer method probably the easiest: instead of slicing the thigh before skewering, score it deeply instead. SCORE IT ON BOTH SIDES! This makes it tremendously easier to skewer than thin strips since it will still be in one piece and yet still exposes the meat to the marinade and creates little bits that char up nicely under the grill!
Then once cooked you can slice it/break it apart as desired.
Keep up the good work man! Can't wait for next week!
Great tip, in fact I think doing that in an accordion method to stretch it out will be even better. You could also thread the thigh on fully then slice into strips working your way around the skewer.
Thanks for watching, I appreciate having you around!
The wife and I just made this. Absolutely delicious. Thank you
Taste authentic?im going to try
This channel is showing how much the middle eastern food is diverse, rich, and very delicious.. thank you 🙏
All your recipes are a great hit. Please keep on cooking and sharing!!!
This was already an amazing tutorial, and then ... your beautiful, floofy cat makes her/his entrance!
This has to be an at-least-once-a-month in our household - Shwarma Saturday! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, she loves to show off. She knows how beautiful she really is. I need to get back into doing that, been a while since I've made this.
@@MiddleEats Also, you look just like my nephew, Javaad! 🐾
Thanks
How the hell did I miss this Channel ?!
Subscribed and enabled Notification! :)
Thank you, much appreciated. Welcome to the club!
Love the chan mate. Keep it up!
another top notch video, thanks
This looks amazing I'm really looking forward to trying it.
I was sent here from Chinese Cooking Demystified and I'm just thrilled to have discovered this channel; it's just what I've need in my life!
Question: For fasting seasons I'm often looking for vegan recipes and the Middle East seems to have many wonderful recipes that I'm largely unfamiliar with. Do you think you would be able to do a short series on some fast-friendly recipes?
Thank you for checking it out, I'm sure you'll love it.
I'll definitely try and do a vegan and vegetarian playlist so you can easier find the dishes. Is it a fast for Lent or Ramadan, or just a health fast?
@@MiddleEats very kind of you! I hope I'm not imposing. Yeah, for Lent, but I'm sure our friends celebrating Ramadan would be equally thrilled
Ok so lent would be vegan right? I'll do my best to label all the recipes so far and future ones.
@@MiddleEats oh you're a hero
I'm glad you're following Chinese Cooking Demystified and Middle Eats. The people running these sites are more thorough in explaining how to cook these foods authentically and professionally. The two of us are obviously foodies who enjoy food from around the world.
Great video! I've been trying to cook this at home without the same results and I will definitely use this technique next time.
However, I will add fries inside the sandwich (something I tried while in Beirut) which I think adds both flavour and texture.
Thank you, hopefully it works out exactly as you are hoping.
Great Video, looks so good I can’t wait to make it thank you..😁
will try for sure
Thanks!
No problem!
I had no idea what this would taste like so I decided to try it.
I'll admit I was worried during the process of making the sauces, baking the bread and skewering a million pieces of chicken that I wouldn't like it after putting in all that work, but it was definitely worth it.
Well thank you for taking the risk and trying it. You even went all out and made the sauces, so kudos to you 👏👏. Glad to hear you liked it!
3:31 "I've always cover my meat with plastic before hammering"
Wise man! 😉
Can’t wait to try this method !!!!
If you’re talking about Abo Ammar on Syria st, that’s the best
I've wanted to try Shawarmas for sooooo long! They've always looked so delicious! I recently moved to Arizona and it seems like the population here is rather bland in restaurant selection I hope I find a place soon that makes delicious authentic honestyle food I really desperately want to try an authentic Shawarma!
living in arizona, we truly do lack restaurants besides fast food. ive found 2 good middle eastern restaurants so far within a reasonable distance, though undoubtedly there's more i probably havent found. otherwise its all burger and pizza chains and mexican food
Yum yum yum! Thank you!
saving this for later. looks flippin delicious.
Me and my bro made this recipe for dinner and I wasn't really expecting anything but DAMN! IT'S SO SO SO SO SO SO GOOD!!!!!!!! I wish we bought more flatbread so we could make some more. 🤤 Even my dad who's not much into middle eastern food loved it! Hoping to make some more next time for family gatherings etc. Thank you thank you for sharing your recipe 🙏
Love your channel! What´s so good about it is that you focus on techniques, not recipes. Comparing different skewering and grilling techniques, and showing the results. Great!
Quality video, keep up the good work!
I have just found your fabulous channel! I'm going to try this recipe this weekend!
This recipe is splendid.
this looks good and delicious thank you for sharing and happy new year
Just found this channel - amazing content!! Subbed.
Made this a couple of times. It's awesome! Thank you.
Your recipes are amazing 🎉
Nice recipe! Loved the tomato paste twist! Gave a nice color!
Seeing the awesome preparation and the fantastic final results, I might be inclined to eat 8 of those sandwiches myself!! Great video, my friend.
FINALLY SOMEONE!!! STAY BLESS MAN!
Learning so much on this channel.
Looks amazing
It looks delicious, thank you!
Thank you for the recipe. Will definitely be using it soon.
Great Recipe. I’m going to attempt this one for sure.
I made your recipe & it is absolutely fantastic! thank you!
It is holy! Your recipe shines & i WILL MAKE! Thanks, im keeping my eyes on you 😊
Very good camera quality, good explanations, american and metric measurements, nice guy with a nice voice, 10/10 would recommend
Thank you !! This was so delicious.
Awesome. Mimicking the techniques in this video has upped my sandwich game in a few different ways.
This is one of the greatest channel names ever. Also shawarma looks amazing! Thanks man!
Wow. Just catching this video now celebrating 1000 subs and you’re sitting at close to 200k. Good job!!!
I followed this recipe... twice now... so good. Thanks bro!
This was an excellent demo, Obi. 😋 Very easy and detailed. I can almost taste it. Gonna give it a try someday. 💯👍
MashAllah so good love your recipe