Dietary Shawarma at home: recipes

I'm Sure many of you love to pamper yourself with this rich treat, as the Shawarma. Ready to eat her for Breakfast, and for dinner? But what about those who “sits” on the diet and adheres to a power system? The variant "to refuse from delicious" really does not suit you? Then there is a solution – dietary Shawarma.

Today we will share with you a recipe that will be a godsend to those who adhere to a proper diet and does not want to eat anything from fried and greasy. Dietary Shawarma, the recipe for which we today offer you not scare a high caloric content, high content of fat and heaviness in the stomach.

Yes, even a dish like Shawarma, can be low-calorie. And, incidentally, a fairly inexpensive set of products that can be customized if you want, that is a big plus for meals.

Ingredients for the first recipe

• Pita bread (one piece per serving).
• One small tomato.
• Two tablespoons of pickled mushrooms.
• One salted cucumber.
• 200 grams of chicken breast.
• Cheese (if desired and without breaking the barrier of calories).

Ingredients for the second option

• 200 grams of bread (better to buy thin Armenian lavash. Do not take thick cakes, which are sold in supermarkets).
• One Hundred grams of tomatoes.
• 180 grams Chinese cabbage or any green leafy salad.
• One small fresh cucumber.
• Boiled chicken.
• Processed “sausage” cheese (optional).

Yogurt sauce

As you know, diet is the Doner kebab can not be prepared with the participation of fatty or high-calorie mayonnaise tomato paste with starch etc. Therefore we offer you to cook low-calorie sauce. It will consist of:

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• Kefir-250 ml.
• Three cloves of garlic.
• Half a teaspoon of salt.
• Small bunch fresh herbs (dill, parsley).
• Pinch of ground black pepper.
• One Hundred grams of pickles.
• Hot red pepper (optional).

The Process of making homemade Shawarma. The first option

The first step is to prepare all the necessary ingredients. Preparing this dish as dietary Shawarma with chicken, the first thing to give attention to this ingredient. The chicken breast should be cleaned from the skin (if any) and boil in lightly salted water. After that, take out the meat and allow it to cool completely at room temperature.

Shawarma diet at home preparing of those foods that are in season in the fridge. Today we are preparing a “winter” option and take the marinated cucumber, tomatoes and pickled mushrooms. All the ingredients you need chopped.

Spread out on the table the pita. As a rule, the standard recipe for sauce there is a mixture of mayonnaise, ketchup, fatty sour cream and yogurt. But since we are preparing a home diet Shawarma, pita to grease kefir, we will sauce. For lubrication you can use a special silicone brush or a regular tablespoon.

Next on the list is the addition of meat. Chicken breast is recommended not to cut, and tear with hands into small pieces. After the meat comes a layer of tomatoes, then – pickles and mushrooms. You can optionally add some pickled vegetables, for example eggplants or cabbage. Will also be very tasty and yet low in calories.

It Remains only to wrap the sheet of lavash in a big roll and put it in the microwave for a few minutes. You can also use a special oven-grill, on which it is possible to heat the Shawarma without the use of oil.

Homemade Shawarma. The second option

If someone would think that pickled vegetables and mushrooms - still the food is quite hearty and nutritious, offer a second, even more easy option. This dietary Shawarma may be called (as opposed to the first) “summer”. There will be only fresh vegetables.

As in the first recipe, all the ingredients are chopped into fine pieces. Cabbage torn by hand into small pieces. Do the same thing with chicken boiled meat. Sausage cheese grate on a coarse grater. You can certainly use regular cheese, but the caloric content it will be much more unwholesome than processed. Take your pick.

Spread out the pita bread. Smear his yogurt sauce and then put all the ingredients in layers: chicken, tomato, cucumber, cabbage, cheese. Turn the loaf and in the oven for two to three minutes.

Variations on the theme “dietary Shawarma”

If you are not liking the first two prescriptions or did not have some ingredients in the fridge, we offer you a list of options of cooking this dish. Among them you are sure to find your that will and a calorie to make and taste.

• Greens, boiled chicken breast, hard cheese, garlic, yogurt for dressing.
• Greens, cheese, garlic, yogurt sauce.
• Pan-Fried mushrooms (champignons), garlic, greens, cheese, yogurt.
• Fresh cucumber, salted fish (red), greens, yogurt sauce.
• Chicken breast boiled, Korean carrot, cucumber, yogurt dressing.
• Boiled brown rice, boiled egg, greens,garlic, seasoning – low-fat yogurt.
• Fresh tomatoes, cucumber, a few slices lean ham, mustard and cream for filling.
• Sweet Red onion, chicken breast, pickled cucumber, a few cloves of garlic kefir dressing.
• Low-fat hard cheese, sweet pepper, garlic, yogurt sauce.
• Fresh carrots (on a coarse grater), crushed walnuts, boiled beets, garlic, low fat sauce of cream and yoghurt.
• Mushrooms with onion, boiled eggs, garlic sauce.
• Fried chicken liver, fresh salad, cucumber, yogurt sauce.
• Roast eggplant, cucumber, sweet peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, fried with onions.
• Boiled shrimp, garlic dressing.

Sauces for homemade Taco

So, if you decided in our Council to prepare this dish as dietary Shawarma (recipe with photo attached), take note of a couple of tips. Once you choose a specific set of low calorie products that you will use for cooking kebabs, I advise you to stock up and recipe sauces. As a rule, "sitting" on a diet and allowing yourself to just certain foods a person feels that these should quickly begin to pall. In this case, to save the situation can only a variety of sauces and dressings.

Mustard sauce

A Very specific taste to the dish will give the mustard sauce. It is prepared from dry mustard and low-fat cream. Mix in equal proportions mustard and cream. If you want to make the dish more spicy, reduce the amount of cream. If you don't like spicy, then, accordingly, reduce the content of mustard powder.

Orange

Fans of exotic colors in the taste of familiar dishes we recommend to prepare the orange dressing. Home Shawarma with sauce will be very unusual, but definitely very tasty. By the way, this sauce is perfectly suitable for any meat dishes, not only for Shawarma at home.

Squeeze the juice from one large orange. Adding half a teaspoon of liquid honey, a pinch of dried ginger, Basil, parsley, and cilantro. Then add one teaspoon of burning mustard. If you like it hot, add mustard instead of red pepper.

Also for home Shawarma is perfect Armenian pomegranate sauce. It has sweet and sour taste and goes well with the meat. To cook it is not necessary, it is sold in almost every supermarket. It will save you the cooking time, which is a big plus for busy Housewives.