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Chicken Shawarma

Easy, healthy and flavour-packed chicken shawarma recipe. We show you how to serve it in pita along with veggie toppings and sauces! This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

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Chicken Shawarma

Main Ingredients Boneless chicken breasts, Pita breads
Cuisine Middle Eastern
Course Snacks and Starters
Prep Time 26-30 minutes
Cook time 11-15 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Tangy
Level of Cooking Easy
Others Non Veg

Ingredients list for Chicken Shawarma

  • 250 grams Boneless chicken breasts
  • 4 Pita breads
  • to taste Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Ginger-garlic paste
  • 1 teaspoon Cumin powder
  • 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
  • 1 teaspoon Red chilli powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Chaat masala
  • 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon Oil
  • 4 tablespoons Mayonnaise
  • 4 teaspoons Schezwan sauce
  • as required Pickled beetroot strips
  • as required Pickled cucumber strips
  • as required Mint mayonnaise

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180° C.
  2. Take chicken breast in a bowl, add salt, ginger-garlic paste, cumin powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, chaat masala, lemon juice and oil and mix together well.
  3. Place the chicken on a baking tray, keep the try in the preheated oven and roast till the chicken is done.
  4. Take the tray out of the oven, place the chicken breast on a chopping board and slice thinly.
  5. Heat a non-stick tawa, place each pita bread on it and let them get heated through.
  6. Keep each pita bread on the chopping board, spread 1 tbsp mayonnaise and 1 tsp schezwan sauce and spread evenly all over the pita bread.
  7. Spread some chicken mixture over this and top with some pickled beetroot and pickled cucumber strips.
  8. Drizzle some mint mayonnaise over them and roll the pita bread. Wrap the rolls in aluminium foil, place them on a serving platter and serve immediately.
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