Homemade Shawarma with Tomatoes, Chicken, Cabbage and Cucumber Salad and Spicy Sauce

Homemade shawarma with tomatoes, chicken, cabbage and cucumber salad and hot sauce is our answer to any street shawarma. It is prepared simply and quickly, from the available products. Its charm is in the combination of boiled chicken fillet, saturated with all the aromas of delicious broth and juicy vegetables, enhanced by salad.

Ingredients

• 1 chicken weighing 1-1.2 kg
• 2-3 large meaty tomatoes
• 2-3 pickled or pickled medium cucumbers
• 1 large juicy carrot
• half a head of young cabbage or a head of Chinese cabbage (about 500 g)
• 4 medium cucumbers
• 3-4 stalks of green onions
• juice and zest of 1 small lemon
• 3 tbsp. l. olive oil
• 4-5 thin large pita bread
• salt
• 250 g very thick homemade mayonnaise
• 150 g thick natural Greek yogurt
• 1 tsp - 1 tbsp. l. red Abkhaz adjika

Directions

1. Boil the chicken in boiling water until cooked through. Remove chicken from heat and let cool in broth.
2. For the filling, cut the tomatoes, pickles and carrots into thin slices. For carrots, you can use a housekeeper.
3. For the salad, chop the cabbage thinly. Cut fresh cucumbers into strips, chop the onion. Combine cabbage, cucumbers and onions, salt, pour with lemon juice, stir with your hands and leave for 15 minutes. Drain off excess juice, add zest, season with oil and stir.
4. Heat a waffle iron or sandwich maker. For the sauce, combine the ingredients until smooth, adding the adjika to taste.
5. Remove the chicken flesh from the bones and disassemble into fibers. Season the chicken with 3-4 tbsp. l. sauce.
6. Spread a spoonful of sauce on each cake, spread, not reaching the edges of 1 cm. Put chicken, vegetables and salad along the edge closest to you, roll into a roll and heat in a waffle iron / sandwich maker for about 2 minutes. Cut the shawarma in half before serving.