The classic ingredients of shawarma are minced meat, usually grilled, sauce and a salad of fresh and / or pickled vegetables that are wrapped in thin pita bread or stuffed with pita bread. But many people, each for their own personal reasons becoming a vegetarian, refuse to eat meat and are forced to look for a replacement.
Champignons can serve as a very good alternative in this case. They are easy to prepare, have a pleasant taste and smell, as well as undeniable benefits for the body. It may seem that the recipe uses not a lot of them in quantity, but quite enough for the range of taste. If desired, the rate can be increased.
Any vegetarian, even the strictest of them, can add such shawarma to your diet. But people who are fasting and losing weight, as well as who cannot imagine their life without meat, will very much like it.
Ingredients:
For the salad:
- Carrots - 300 g
- Zucchini - 300 g
- Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
- Ground ginger - 0.33 tsp l.
- Ground nutmeg - 0.33 tsp l.
- Ground coriander - 0.33 tsp l.
- Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp l.
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Salt - 1 tbsp l.
- Balsamic vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
For frying:
- Fresh frozen champignons - 400 g
- Onions - 50 g
- Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
For the sauce:
- Onions - 100 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Sugar - 1.5 tbsp. l.
- Ground paprika - 3 tbsp. l.
- Tomato paste - 5 tbsp. l.
- Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Additionally:
- Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- Tomato - 2 pcs.
- Lettuce - 6 pcs.
- Pita - 6 pcs.
All components of shawarma (mushroom frying, sauce and salad) are very convenient to prepare the day before and shortly before bed, so that there is no "painful" waiting for the tasting. The next day, all that remains is to “pack” it in pita or wrap it in pita bread.
It's worth starting with making a salad. The ingredient list shows the weight of the peeled vegetables. Chop the zucchini with a grater, peeler or knife in the form of plates / "spaghetti". Salt, mix thoroughly and leave for 30 minutes to separate the juice. During the allotted time, it will not be superfluous to mix the zucchini mass a couple of times.
While the zucchini is infused, grate the peeled carrots on a special grater for Korean salads or on a regular coarse one, or you can cut it with a knife into very thin strips.
Finely chop the garlic or pass through a press, add it along with ground spices (ginger, coriander, pepper black and nutmeg) into pre-heated (this way they better reveal their aroma) olive oil and stir.
Pour the mixture into the carrots. Mix. Add balsamic vinegar, mix thoroughly again. Add and stir again the squeezed zucchini (you can lightly rinse it with cold water, as it may come out salty).
Tighten the container with the salad with a film or close the lid, put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (preferably at night).
For the sauce, cut the onion into thin quarters and finely chop the garlic. Put them in a preheated frying pan with olive oil or any other vegetable oil without a pronounced odor. Fry these vegetables for no longer than two minutes, stirring if necessary. Add sugar and stir for a minute. Then add ground paprika and add tomato paste. Stir again and bring to a boil. The sauce is ready.
For mushroom frying, cut the onion into thin quarters, lightly fry in a preheated skillet. Add fresh frozen chopped champignons to it and fry them until the liquid evaporates. You can use fresh mushrooms, bringing them to full readiness.
Now it remains to assemble all the components into one whole. Make an incision in the pit according to the principle of a pocket. The photo shows a cut according to the principle of a hamburger bun for clarity, you can do the same. Apply ¼ part of the sauce to one or both wings. Put a salad leaf on one side (1-4 pcs. depending on the size), spread ¼ part of the pickled vegetables on top and put the mushroom roast in the next layer. Add the tomatoes cut into half rings and top with the cucumber cut into rings. Vegetarian shawarma is ready.
You can wrap it in pita bread, if so familiar. Apply the sauce only on that area (see. example in the photo), where the rest of the components will be laid out in the same sequence as described in the previous step. It remains only to spin the roll, sealing it from the ends.
Serve vegetarian shawarma with your favorite drinks. It could be coffee, tea, juice or soda. Before serving, if desired, if the sauce and roast have been cooled, the collected shawarma can be heated.
Bon appetit and may it be delicious!
Like, comment, share in social networks,subscribe to our channelis the best reward for us!
Good health and culinary inspiration :)