Shawarma

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Traditional Middle Eastern shawarma sandwiches are made with marinated pieces of meat pressed and stacked on a vertical rotisserie and cooked slowly. The juicy cooked meat is then shaved off and made into a sandwich with yogurt, tomatoes and lettuce. Pita bread is used.

A few years ago, I picked up another technique for making shawarma at a food stall at Cherry’s Supermarket along Congressional Road in Quezon City. Instead of pita bread, the beef and vegetables were arranged at the center of a flour tortilla then wrapped jellyroll-style. It was really delicious.

shawarma

We have had home-cooked shawarma many, many times since. And we have experimented with different combinations for the filling–tuna, chicken, roast duck. When the local KFC outlets came out with its Chicken Twister (rolled tortilla filled with chunks of fried chicken and vegetables), the concoction was nothing new to us.

I do not have a vertical rotisserie. Never did. To make our shawarma, we have been improvising by panfrying the marinated beef.

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5 Responses to “Shawarma”
  1. Charise says:
    July 18, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    You can also use the garlic sauce (garlic, mayo and water) para mas yummy and put some potatos.. parang shawarma sa greenhills.. hehe

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  2. thei says:
    July 27, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    pls help me can i get the receipe beef shawarma? pls send me to my email add thanks

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  3. Connie says:
    July 28, 2007 at 1:43 am

    can you read, thei? i don’t email recipes.

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  4. cris says:
    April 8, 2008 at 8:14 am

    wow! the hostility, just over some recipes.

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  5. mahlen says:
    June 7, 2009 at 8:29 am

    I’m living here now in Switzerland and I miss the Pinoy-style shawarma. So what I do, I cut the beef(meat) thinly and marinate in barbeque sauce then bake or grill in the oven. And instead of yoghurt, I use French sauce with pressed garlic, sugar and pepper. You can add cheese in the palaman. Yummy, parang yung Shawarma dun sa LRT-Gil Puyat Station. Yummy!

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