How to make shawarma with frying pan

I want to share with us how to make shawarma with frying pan. Shawarma can be made without an oven or microwave. My kids want homemade, I want to make it for them but there is no electricity. This is Nigeria!

What we are going to do to make this  a success is use an old pot or my old frying pan as an oven and bake.  It doesn’t take long to cook and doesn’t really need too much heat. The ingredients in any  good shawarma have to be crunchy and nutritionally alive.

Once pita bread is heated. It’s ok to eat because every ingredient in there should be that vegetable that can be eaten raw.

Watch this video of me making shawarma with a frying pan. Please watch on Youtube and subscribe to my channel updates or you can watch below. If you prefer the written recipe, you can scroll down to read and enjoy making the simple frying pan shawarma at home.

MY MAIN SHAWARMA VEGETABLES

My major shawarma vegetables are onion and cabbage. With just onion, cabbage and the proteins beef or chicken with sausages) my food is ready and I love them with few ingredients. Though sometimes we add tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables for a change.

To make shawarma, you don’t need much. Just a stove, a pan, what to place on the bottom of the  pan and another pot or deep lid to cover and bake a little.

Once the it’s is heated and the shawarma placed in there. We place another pot on  there to retain the heat and the yummy shawarma  is made.

It’s that simple.

We have many shawarma recipes here already but this post here is just to show us that any of those shawarma recipes can be used. You can make homemade  chicken shawarma using a frying pan. Beef shawarma too can be made with a frying pan. Just any Shawarma at all. It’s only the heat that we need and if a frying pan on a stove can generate that heat, why not. That’s what I’m going to do here right now.

Below are the steps…

EASY STEPS: How to make shawarma in frying pan

1. Wrap your shawarmas with the  bread (Naan or pita bread).
2. Place an empty frying pan on a burner, keep the heat low. I used a heavy base frying pan for this.
3. Place a wire rack in the fry pan. I use  the wire rack that came with my microwave. It doesn’t fit into the pan very well but is manageable.
4. Turn on the heat and place a deep lid or another large pot on the frying pan. Leave to heat up for about 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Take off the lid and place shawarmas on the rack ( Doesn’t have to be a wire rack, if you have any other item that can be used, use it to prevent them lying flat in the pan and burning easily. Almost every microwave oven comes with a rack… use it.
6. Place them, cover the pan and leave to cook for about 2 minutes or more depending on how you want yours.
7. Take off the lid and you can use a tongue to pick them out because they are hot right now.

That’s how to make shawarma with a frying pan. It’s very easy.

Did you know that you can make shawarma with a toaster?

 

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Frequently Asked Questions about shawarma making (FAQ)

1. How do you make shawarma at home without an oven?   ANSWER; To make shawarma at home without an oven, you need kitchen equipment that can create heat to heat up your shawarma for eating. I have made shawarma at home without oven, so many times. What I use is a toaster or cooking. Most times when there is no oven, I make my shawarma in a frying pan like I just did on this post. The video above shows me making delicious shawarma without an oven. I used my frying pan as my shawarma oven to trap the heat and cook the shawarma excellently well. To make shawarma without oven, I supplement my pans, pots, and even toaster. Your microwave oven can also be used to make shawarma when there is no oven. What the shawarma needs is the heat to cook with or without an oven.
2. What is the name for shawarma bread? ANSWER: Shawarma bread is known as pita bread. Pita bread is the original name for shawarma bread. Naan bread can also be used to wrap shawarma. Many people also call it shawarma wrap. In supermarkets over here, the name on shawarma wraps is either pita bread or shawarma bread.