Dish · middle-eastern
Shawarma
Shawarma is meat, chicken or lamb, marinated then stacked and roasted on a vertical spit, shaved off in thin strips and wrapped in flatbread with vegetables and sauce.
Where it comes from
The dish grew from the same vertical spit roasting technique used across the Ottoman Empire, and its name comes from a Turkish word for turning, reflecting how central the rotation is to the cooking itself.
What cooks argue about
The debated point is marinade time: a short soak keeps the meat mild, while a full day breaks it down further but risks a mushy, over soured result.
Versions
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What goes in it
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chicken thigh boneless
garlic
cumin ground