2020-08-13 / test@t

Black shawarma with chicken, cabbage and cucumber salad and spicy sauce

"Charcoal" bread is very popular in European countries: activated charcoal is a more budget-friendly option compared to cuttlefish ink, no less useful and does not have such a pronounced taste as ink. We prepare the dough for tortillas in the standard way, add tablets of the most common activated carbon in the process, after grinding into dust. Cabbage-cucumber salad with spicy sauce is suitable as a crispy filler for black shawarma with chicken.

Ingredients

1 chicken weighing 1-1.2 kg
2 cubes Gallina Blanca Reduced salt chicken broth
half a head of young cabbage (about 500 g)
4 medium cucumbers
3-4 stalks of green onions
juice and zest of 1 small lemon
3 tbsp olive oil
salt
250 g very thick homemade mayonnaise
125 g thick natural Greek yogurt
1 tsp - 1 tbsp. l. red Abkhaz adjika
20 tablets of activated carbon
500 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp. l. olive oil
1 tsp salt
melted butter

STEP-BY-STEP COOKING RECIPE

Step 1

Cook the chicken in boiling water with 2 cubes of Gallina Blanca Reduced Salt Chicken Broth until cooked through. Remove chicken from heat and let cool in broth.

Step 2

At the same time, prepare the tortillas dough: grind the charcoal in a coffee grinder to "dust". Sift flour with baking powder with a slide on the work surface, make a depression in the slide. Pour salt into it and pour in 200 ml of lukewarm water with olive oil. Add charcoal very carefully.

Step 3

Sprinkle flour from the sides, knead a homogeneous dough. Roll the dough into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and leave for 30 minutes. Divide the dough into 50 g pieces, round each piece, cover with plastic foil and leave for 20 minutes.

Step 4

Melt the ghee, brush a well-heated frying pan with a brush and fry the cakes one by one, rolling them out as thin as possible, for 40–50 seconds. from each side. Place the finished tortillas in a saucepan under the lid so that they become soft.

Step 5

For the filling, chop the cabbage thinly. Cut the cucumbers into strips, finely 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.

Step 6

Heat up a waffle iron or sandwich maker. For the sauce, combine the ingredients until smooth, adding the adjika to taste.

Step 7

Remove the chicken flesh from the bones and disassemble into fibers. Season the chicken with 3-4 tbsp. l. sauce.

Step 8

Put a spoonful of sauce on each cake, spread it, not reaching the edges of 1 cm. Put the chicken and salad along the edge closest to you, roll it into a roll and heat in a waffle iron / sandwich maker for about 2 minutes. Cut the shawarma in half before serving.

Preparation time

Cooking time

2h 30m

Servings

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