Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Chicken Shawarma

Ingredients

For the filling
Lettuce (cut into bite pieces) - 1 cup
Cucumber (cut into pieces ) - 1 cup
Cabbage (Chopped ) - 1/2 cup
Hammus - 2 tbsp
Mayonise - 1/4 cup
salt - as per taste
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Pocketless pita bread - 6

To marinate,grill and saute
Chicken - 1/2 pound
Tandoori chicken masala - 3 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Yoghurt - 1 tbsp
Lime juice - 1 tbsp
Salt - as per taste
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Kasoori methi - 1/2 tbsp
Onion - cut into lenghwise
Olive oil - 2 tbsp

Preparation
1.Marinate chicken with above mentioned marination ingredients except onion
2.Keep it in the refrigerator for 2 hrs
3.Preheat oven in 400 F
4.Place the marinated chicken in a baking pan along with 1 tbsp olive oil
5.Keep it in the oven for 20 minutes.Stir it occassionally
6.When it cools shred it into small pieces
7.In a pan add the ramaining 1 tbsp oil and saute onion.
8.When it gets sauted add the chicken and saute well.
9.In a microwave or pan heat pita one by one
10.In a mixing bowl mix together and lettuce.cucumber,hammus,maynosie,cabbage along with sal
   and pepper.Stir it well .

11.In a butter paper or foil place one pita bread .To this add the lettuce mix and above that put the sauted chicken

12.Fold it tightly and cut into halves.Serve it along with the lettuce mix and shredded chicken

13.Fill the remaining pitas also in the same way.

2 comments:

  1. pita bread whts that,wher will we get tht

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  2. You will get it in the Indian store and Mediterranean store.There is 2 kind of pita bread. One is pocket pita and the other is pocket less.
    Try to buy pocket less .It is good for shawarma.It s little thicker than pocket pita.

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