Pita bread itself is tasteless and bland, but the dishes from it are simply amazing. Especially if it is shawarma with meat.
It is not necessary to run somewhere and buy this creation.
It can be very easily and quickly cooked in your kitchen, it will turn out very tasty and satisfying.
Shawarma with pork - general principles of cooking
Shawarma meat is used without bone. The pulp is cut, fried in a pan. But you can take the remains of barbecue, cook pork on the grill or bake in the oven. In addition to meat, the filling involves the addition of other products.
What is added to the shawarma:
• vegetables, salads;
• cheese;
• eggs;
• mushrooms;
• greenery.
We must not forget about the sauce, which gives the dish a taste, pungency, makes it juicy and mouth-watering. Prepare it from mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard, ketchup. Add garlic, herbs, various seasonings. You can use ready-made sauces such as "Garlic", "Cheese", "Tartar".
How to turn shawarma
Stuffing in pita bread can be wrapped in various ways.
Shawarma is prepared open, closed, in the form of roll or envelope. The method of folding depends on the recipe, the size of the pita and frying.
If the dish is fried in a pan or grill, it is better to make the shawarma closed.
If you use homemade pita bread, then often you can’t make an envelope because of the size. In this case, it is more convenient to make a roll or roll with one open edge.
Korean style pork and carrot shawarma
A simple recipe for delicious pork shawarma. For her, you need ready-made Korean carrots, purchased or homemade salad. You can take carrots with any additives, fresh cabbage is used to dilute the taste.
Ingredients
• 200 g of pork;
• 150 g carrots;
• 70 g of mayonnaise;
• 100 g of cabbage;
• 30 g of ketchup;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• spices;
• 2 pita bread.
Cooking
1. Cut the pork into strips, put in a pan with two tablespoons of oil and start frying. As soon as the meat begins to release juice, cover the vessel for five minutes with a lid and simmer.
2. Cut the onions into thin rings, add to the meat, fry together until rosy. Salt to taste. You can pepper if the carrots are not sharp.
3. We transfer Korean carrots to a colander, let the juice drain a little.
4. Chop the cabbage into small strips, mash it with your hands and combine with carrots. Stir.
5. Put the ketchup in mayonnaise, add the garlic, season the sauce with fresh or dried herbs, if desired. Stir.
6. First spread cabbage with carrot on pita bread. Divide the salad in half so that it is enough for 2 servings.
7. On top lay the pork fried with onions.
8. Cover everything with mayonnaise sauce with ketchup and garlic.
9. Turn the shawarma with an envelope, transfer to a dry frying pan and fry pita bread on both sides for a minute. Eat right away.
Shawarma with pork, cheese and Beijing cabbage
Hard cheese is used in this recipe. But you can take processed cheese, it will also be delicious. If there is no Peking cabbage, you can make shawarma with pork and white-cabbage vegetable.
Ingredients
• 100 g of pork;
• 80 g of Beijing cabbage;
• 50 g of cheese;
• 50 g sour cream;
• 0.5 cloves of garlic (as much as possible);
• 0.5 tsp mustard;
• 0.5 carrots;
• greenery;
• 2 tablespoons of ketchup;
• 1 pita bread.
Cooking
1. Knock off a piece of pork with a hammer. If necessary, cut into two plates. We fry in an oiled pan on both sides, like chops.
2. Cool the meat, cut into strips. Add ketchup, salt and mix with meat. Let it soak a little.
3. Shred the Beijing cabbage, add the greens and one grated carrot.
4. Combine sour cream with mustard, add garlic, any seasonings and salt. Stir.
5. Put on a pita salad of Chinese cabbage and cover with sour cream sauce.
6. Grate a piece of cheese, distribute over sour cream.
7. Top with pork greased with ketchup.
8. We twist the shawarma with an envelope. If desired, fry on a grill or in a dry frying pan, but not very long, since Beijing cabbage is very tender.
Shawarma with pork and pickled mushrooms
For such a shawarma, you can use mushrooms to your taste. All of them will go well with meat. From these products you get two large servings.
Ingredients
• 200 g of pork;
• 80 g of mushrooms;
• 100 g of cabbage;
• 1 tomato;
• 0.5 carrots;
• 2 pita bread;
• 0.5 bunch of greenery;
• 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 2 tablespoons of ketchup.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into plates, season with salt. We put in the essence a greased pan, fry on both sides for 3 minutes, moderate fire. Then take out, cool and cut into small pieces.
2. Cut the cabbage into strips, rub or chop the carrots into strips, add chopped greens. Salad, salt, pepper and mash hands until the juice.
3. Mix the mayonnaise and ketchup.
4. Cut the tomato into slices, mushrooms as well.
5. Expand both pita bread on the table.
6. Divide the vegetables in half, put on the cakes.
7. Now divide the meat in half, cover the vegetables on top.
8. Pour the cooked sauce over the pork and place the chopped mushrooms.
9. Top with a slice of tomato.
10. It remains only to wrap pita bread in any convenient way. You can fry the dish in a pan or eat immediately.
Shawarma with pork, cucumbers and pepper
The dish according to this recipe is relatively light, but tasty and juicy. Unusual sauce, prepared on the basis of natural yogurt.
Ingredients
• 100 g of pork;
• 1 pita;
• 2 tablespoons of natural yogurt;
• 1 tsp soy sauce;
• 1 cucumber;
• 1 bell pepper;
• 2 branches of dill;
• 50 g of cabbage;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• pepper, salt.
Cooking
1. Rinse a piece of pork, wipe and chop with a shallow straw. Season with salt, pepper, transfer to a dry frying pan and cook over low heat, stir occasionally.
2. Make the sauce. Combine natural yogurt with spices, chopped dill and soy sauce. Add one crushed clove of garlic, but you can do without it. Stir.
3. Free the pepper from seeds, chop the straws, also cabbage and cucumbers. You can take Chinese cabbage or any other kind. Season the vegetables with spices.
4. Combine the meat with a spoon of sauce, stir.
5. The second part of the sauce is combined with vegetables and also mixed.
6. Put vegetables, meat on pita bread, then lettuce again. Wrap the filling in the cake and the dish is ready!
Shawarma with pork and egg pancake
A variant of a hearty meal with pork and high protein content. Sour cream based sauce, but can be replaced with yogurt, as in the previous recipe.
Ingredients
• 1 pita;
• 110 g of pork;
• 1 egg;
• 1 spoon of ketchup;
• 100 g of cabbage;
• 1 tomato;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 1 tsp oils;
• 2-3 branches of parsley;
• mustard to taste;
• spices.
Cooking
1. We beat off a piece of meat so that it cooks quickly. Fry on a stove with a drop of oil until cooked. We clean.
2. Grease the pan with the remaining oil. Beat the egg, pour onto a heated surface and fry the pancake. Remove and cool.
3. Shred the cabbage, mix with chopped herbs, add the chopped tomato.
4. Straw the egg pancake, put it to the vegetables.
5. We also cut the meat, add to the total mass.
6. Combine sour cream with mustard, to taste spices, garlic. Stir.
7. Season the filling with the sauce.
8. Lubricate a small portion of pita bread with ketchup, put the cooked salad on it, twist the shawarma in any convenient way.
Shawarma with pork and pickles
A variant of a very spicy, tasty and unusual filling for pork shawarma. You certainly can't buy such a dish anywhere! If the cucumbers are very salty, then you need to carefully add spices.
Ingredients
• 200 g of fatty meat;
• 300 g soy sauce;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 1 tomato;
• 2 pita bread;
• 100 g of pickles;
• 50 g of ketchup;
• 0.5 peppers;
• 50 g of cheese;
• 40 g of mayonnaise;
• greens, seasonings.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into cubes. Pour the pork with soy sauce, add seasonings and stir. Leave to marinate for ten minutes.
2. Put the slices in warmed butter, fry for about fifteen minutes. Then take out the fat in a bowl.
3. Cut pickles and tomato, chop the half of the pepper. You can use green or red vegetable.
4. Grate cheese, add to vegetables, mix.
5. Grease pita bread with ketchup, sprinkle with chopped herbs.
6. We spread vegetables with meat, you can immediately season with mayonnaise, it will be tastier.
7. Spin the roll or envelope.
8. We transfer the shawarma to the grill, brown the pita bread on both sides.
Home-style shawarma with pork and potatoes
Homemade Shawarma Recipe with Pork. The dish is not quite ordinary, as it is cooked with potatoes.
Ingredients
• 1 pita;
• 100 g of pork;
• 100 g of potatoes;
• 50 g of pickled cabbage or pickles;
• 1 spoon of ketchup;
• 1.5 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• clove of garlic;
• a tomato;
• spices, oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the pork into pieces, season with spices, fry in a pan with butter until tender.
2. Take out the meat. Cut the potatoes into strips and fry after the pork in the same oil. We also take it out, you can put everything at once in one bowl.
3. Add pickled cabbage or chopped cucumber.
4. Cut the tomato, sent to the total mass.
5. Mix the mayonnaise and ketchup, put the garlic and spices. We fill the filling.
6. Twist the pita bread, form a tight bundle. Be sure to fry on both sides on the grill or just in a dry frying pan.
Shawarma with pork - useful tips and tricks
• Stuffing can be prepared in advance, then quickly twist into pita bread. But you need to salt the vegetables immediately before the formation of the shawarma. Otherwise, they will release juice.
• Instead of ketchup, you can use tomato paste for the sauce. You just need to dilute it with a small amount of water or soy sauce, season with spices, garlic.
• Pork will be tastier and cook faster if it is temporarily marinated in spices or in ordinary soy sauce.
