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Homemade Beef Shawarma
Total time50 min
Prep30 min
Cook20 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyMedium
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ChefHana Musa Naama

Homemade Beef Shawarma

Delicious homemade beef shawarma — an authentic, carefully made recipe. Homemade shawarma is lighter since it doesn’t contain much fat. This recipe includes tips to make it extra tasty — don’t forget the parsley salad and tahini (tartar) sauce.

Homemade beef shawarma — tastier, cleaner, and lighter at home

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Ingredients

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  • 1 kg beef fillet or tender chuck steak — any beef cut sliced thin suitable for shawarma
  • 100 g fat, sliced
  • red tomatoes
  • Marinade
  • 2 tbsp white vinegar
  • salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp beef shawarma spice mix
  • Parsley salad (or biwaz)
  • parsley
  • onion wedges
  • salt
  • sumac
  • Tartar / Tahini sauce
  • tahini
  • water
  • lemon juice
  • For shawarma bread click the link: Shawarma bread
  • Mini flatbread is also great for serving shawarma — here’s the link: Mini batoot bread

Method

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  1. Put the meat in the refrigerator overnight... Do not season it with anything.. This step is important to make slicing into strips easier
  2. The next day, cut it and marinate it for at least 6 hours
    Timers: 360 min
  3. Grind the fat in the meat grinder until smooth
  4. Put it in a pan over low heat until it melts
  5. Preheat the oven to 180°C and place the beef shawarma tray on the middle rack and leave it for 15 minutes... then add the melted fat on top and stir well so the meat and fat mix
    Timers: 15 min
  6. Pierce the red tomatoes all over and place them in the tray... this will give us a tasty broth for the shawarma
  7. Leave the beef shawarma tray for an additional 15 minutes.
    Timers: 15 min
  8. Prepare the tarator (tahini) sauce.. whisk all the ingredients together, preferably whisk the water and tahini first before adding the lemon juice so the tahini does not clump
  9. Prepare the parsley salad.. chop the parsley finely and cut the onion into wedges.. mix and season with salt and sumac
  10. Serve the beef shawarma with parsley salad or onion salad and tarator
  11. Hana Moussa Naameh
  12. To make chicken shawarma here is this great recipe: Easy Chicken Shawarma preparation method
  13. To make shawarma bread click on the link
  14. Small flatbread (batbout) is great for serving shawarma as well — here is the link: Mini Batbout Bread

Recipe tags

MainsLevantVegetarianVeganDairy freeNut freeEgg freeMediumBalanced time

Notes and serving ideas

  • Easy chicken shawarma recipe
  • Shawarma bread
  • Mini batoot bread

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Hana Musa Naama

Hana has loved cooking since childhood and delights in creating recipe after recipe.

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