Homemade shawarma with cheese in pita bread in a frying pan

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make homemade shawarma with cheese in pita bread? Prepare your food. This quantity of products is designed for two large shawarmas, so you will need two large thin pita breads. Any fillet will do - I have a breast, you can take a thigh, it will be juicier. The basic set of vegetables is cabbage and tomato, I added fresh cucumber and Korean carrots.

2. STEP 2

   

   First, cook the chicken. Wash the fillet and dry it well - excess moisture will prevent the meat from frying and it will stew. Sprinkle the fillets with salt and spices. Their set can be absolutely anything. I took chicken curry, paprika and ground black pepper. You take what you love. Rub the chicken well with the seasonings and let sit for 10 minutes.

3. STEP 3

   

   Heat a frying pan over high heat, pour vegetable oil into it for frying. Place the fillet.

4. STEP 4

   

   Fry it for 5 minutes on one side until golden brown, then turn it over to the other. The heat must be high for the chicken to brown well. Fry the fillets for a couple more minutes, then cover the pan with a lid. Reduce heat and simmer the chicken for another 5 minutes. Due to frying, all the juice will remain inside the meat, and under the lid it will finally cook.

5. STEP 5

   

   Remove the finished fillet from the pan and immediately wrap it in foil. Leave it for 5 minutes so that the meat is completely cooked.

6. STEP 6

   

   While the meat is in foil, prepare the other ingredients. Finely chop the cabbage. You can use white cabbage or Peking cabbage, like mine. After slicing, remember the cabbage well with your hands and sprinkle with lemon juice or wine vinegar.

7. STEP 7

   

   Wash the tomato, cut it and remove the center and seeds so that the filling is not too wet. Cut the pulp into slices.

8. STEP 8

   

   Cut the cucumber into half circles. I have fresh, you can take pickled.

9. STEP 9

   

   Grate the cheese on a medium grater. Any cheese is suitable for this dish - hard, semi-hard, soft, such as mozzarella. The main thing is that it is tasty, of high quality, without milk fat substitutes and melts well.

10. STEP 10

    

    Meanwhile, the meat has already arrived, open the foil, there will be a lot of juice there. Cut it into thin slices and return to the foil with the juice, stir. This way you will get very juicy and tasty meat.

11. STEP 11

    

    Prepare the sauce. I made yogurt, you can make it with mayonnaise, sour cream or tomato sauce. Take natural yogurt, without additives.

12. STEP 12

    

    Squeeze lemon juice into the yogurt, grate the peeled garlic clove, add salt and pepper. Stir.

13. STEP 13

    

    All that remains is to assemble the shawarma. To do this, spread a sheet of pita bread on the table with the short side facing you. Place a strip of cabbage and tomatoes on it.

14. STEP 14

    

    Next, add the chicken and brush it with sauce. Sprinkle cheese on top, lay out cucumber slices and Korean carrots. In general, you can place the ingredients in the filling in any order.

15. STEP 15

    

    Wrap the pita bread into a roll, tucking the edges down to the filling. You can make the shawarma dense and round, or flat, as you like.

16. STEP 16

    

    Fry the shawarma on both sides in a grill pan until beautifully browned stripes.

17. STEP 17

    

    Serve the shawarma to the table; you can cut it in half. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Elena Pankina

22.12.2023

4.9

I cook shawarma often, but this is the first time I’ve cooked homemade shawarma with cheese in pita bread in a frying pan. And my son, a shawarma lover, appreciated it: very tasty! I took young white cabbage, which I finely chopped. Chicken fillet fried in a frying pan and cut into strips. I cut the cucumbers into half rings, cut the tomatoes into slices, and grated the cheese on a fine grater. I prepared the sauce for shawarma using mayonnaise and ketchup. I spread the sauce on a sheet of pita bread. I laid out meat, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, and carrots in Korean. I rolled the pita bread and fried it in a dry frying pan. Another version of shawarma with the addition of cheese is now in my piggy bank. Thanks katushafin for the recipe and I recommend trying it 😊

Irina

22.12.2023

4.8

Super filling snack, a pleasure to prepare! True, I ended up with shawarma in pita bread with cheese and beef - because I replaced the chicken. The taste of this shawarma is amazing, all the ingredients are selected as harmoniously as possible and go well with each other. Thanks for the recipe!