Homemade shawarma with cheese in pita bread in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make homemade shawarma with cheese in pita bread? Prepare the products. This amount of products is designed for two large shawarma, so you will need two large thin pita bread. 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 of all, cook the chicken. Wash the fillet and dry it well — excess moisture will not allow the meat to fry, 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 thoroughly with seasonings and leave to lie down for 10 minutes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat a frying pan over high heat, pour vegetable oil on it for frying. Lay out the fillets.

4. Step 4:

   

   Fry it for 5 minutes on one side until golden brown, then turn it over to the other. The fire must be strong so that the chicken is well fried. Fry the fillets for a couple more minutes, then cover the pan with a lid. Reduce the heat and simmer the chicken for another 5 minutes. Due to roasting, all the juice will remain inside the meat, and under the lid it will finally catch up.

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 finally comes.

6. Step 6:

   

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

7. Step 7:

   

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

8. Step 8:

   

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

9. Step 9:

   

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

11. Step 10:

    

    Meanwhile, the meat has already reached, open the foil, there will be a lot of juice. Cut it into thin slices and return it to the foil to the juice, mix. In this way you will get very juicy and delicious meat.

12. Step 11:

    

    Prepare the sauce. I made yogurt, you can cook on the basis of mayonnaise, sour cream or tomato sauce. Take natural yogurt, without additives.

13. Step 12:

    

    Squeeze lemon juice into yogurt, rub a peeled garlic clove, add salt and pepper. Mix it up.

14. Step 13:

    

    It remains to assemble the shawarma. To do this, spread a sheet of pita bread on the table with the short side facing you. Put a strip of cabbage, tomatoes on it.

15. Step 14:

    

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

16. Step 15:

    

    Wrap the pita bread in a roll, bending the edges to the filling. You can make a shawarma dense and round, you can make it flat, as you like.

17. Step 16:

    

    Fry the shawarma on both sides in a grill pan to beautiful ruddy stripes.

18. Step 17:

    

    Serve the shawarma to the table, you can cut it in half. Enjoy your meal!