Easy Authentic Shawarma Completely From Scratch 

Can u turn this into a series? Like do a whole big meal of one type/ style/ culture of food? I think some African regions could result in a really cool and fun challenge.

I know pretty much nobody will end up buying the rotisserie machine, but if you'd still like to make shawarma, the youtube channel Middle Eats has an excellent video with a few suggestions on how to make shawarma or any other kebab style meat with pretty minimal equipment in the oven (great channel overall for anyone who wants to try any traditional Arab dishes btw). The results are pretty great and I no longer go to shawarma/kebab spots and instead make it at home. As Joshua pointed it out, it's a pretty great meal for family or even a group of friends coming over.

As an ex-shawarma chef, I gotta chime in. Thank you for making toum correctly. Tired of seeing people add egg whites! Now I know this is a Turkish/Lebanese combo, but there are elements in here I've never seen before. From a Lebanese stand point: For our rice, we don't put orzo. We put in vermicelli noodles. For pickles, we use pickled turnips for chicken, and green wild cucumber for the beef. No other pickles. For veggies, we use (fresh) tomatoes for chicken and a parsley and onion mix for beef. And lastly for the chicken, we marinate it in yoghurt because yoghurt makes everything better. I recommend coming to Detroit or even Ottawa Canada, or Montreal, to try some amazing shawarma. Better than anything you'll find the avengers eating in New York for sure 😆

As a Turk, I'm actually quite impressed, that you did it the Turkish way. The rice, the gözleme the shawarma aaaaaannddd your pronunciation are all very impressive. Keep up the good work my bro!!

More non fast food recipes like this one please! Those are the ones that made me love this channel

As an Arab I approve this

As a turkish i wanted to thank you. When our so called chefs don't give a crap about our own cuisine you are making some of the turkish foods. Again thank you

Being Lebanese I am partial to our traditional shawarma; flatbread, toum and hummus, pickles (specitically Mouneh), fries, onion and chicken. Just awesomeness to go! Toast that rolled up shawarma in a pan for a bit, making the flatbread crispy, nothing beats it!

Amateur Lebanese Chef here. Your Toum is on point. Glorious. PS: We add a couple drops of orange blossom water in the halva, makes a world of difference. Much love & pitas from Beirut!

As someone who's Turkish, this warms my heart completely! Hats off to sticking to the traditional recipes and nailing them, thank you!

I been missed the longer cooking videos. This video definitely satisfies

I just wanna say thanks for doing alllll this stuff in one vid! So many killer recipes I literally watched vid 2x in a row to absorb it all. Schwarma my fav and we have some good stuff in Detroit/Dearborn area with largest Arab pop in country but I don’t cook it enough

Yes! YES!! *YES!!!* I love Shawarma but have always been too intimidated to try making it at home. You make it look so much easier than I imagined it. I can totally do this.

As a Turkish person i approve this 👌🏻 love your videos man! Keep up the amazing work❤

Omg, loved this, you packed so much into this… I will be making a couple of recipes from this!

This reminds me of the older videos and I love it! Seems like most recent videos were about chicken sandwiches

The efforts exerted to make this meal is outstanding. Keep up the good work

That’s an almost perfect pronunciation of Gözleme, as a Turkish I approved it 🎉

My lebanese living in istanbul soul is VERY impressed. THANK YOU for the toum recognition! This is a Turkish Lebanese feast!! I hope you invited Nour to it :p

As a Türk, I have a couple comments. Cacık is often made by adding water to what you made and served in a bowl to drink alongside the meal Helva made from flour is the least exciting of all helvas. It is much better made from semolina. Bazlama is often thicker and much harder to wrap things in. Flat bread used to wrap things is called pide, and the thinner one is called lavaş Optionally adding kaşar cheese, raw onions or yoğurt+mayo+garlic sauce to the wrap could improve the flavor. Raw meatballs would be a great addition to the table. They are made with bulgur, lots of spice and optionally raw meat. Served with lettuce leaves and pomegranate sauce, or optionally as a wrap.

This looks so good! Always a good day when Papa posts a new video

the toum part made my lebanese heart melt

Awesome vid Josh and team! Such an amazing spread of food here!

loved this video!! the from scratch feasts are so fun and educational

joshua i'm a lebanese watching you and i can say you always nail it and you and that shawarma looks mouth watering

I’ve been waiting for this video my whole life & I didn’t even know it. You made authentic Arab food AND YOU KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT 😭😭😭 I’d pay anything to eat this.

If I could say one thing, it's that your recipes are the absolute easiest to understand. The best structure. The best ideas. I made your bagels yesterday and they were soooooo fire!

Thank You for this recipe, been looking for a good one in months

Sajj bread is also amaaaazing with shawerma! So so so good! Also adding fries and toum and pickls into it and rolling it like a burrito and grilling it so the bread gets a bit crispy is yuuuuummmmmmmmm

I use toum as a non-dairy option for marinating chicken in recipes that normally call for yogurt. Comes out rich and garlicy.

Toum is a gamechanger. Thankfully I learned how to make it at the Lebanese restaurant I used to work at. I actually add it to white rice sometimes, when I want to spice it up with flavor, but don't have time to chop up my own garlic.

This looks amazing as always. Also wanted to say I’ve been watching your videos for years, and as a student at Iowa State University I’m extremely excited to see you next week!

Love these new recipes. I've attempted to duplicate some of them at home, but a few of the more exotic spices are difficult to locate in my local groceries. Wish there was some guide as to the best places to shop for ingredients.

I love your videos they are so amazing✨

Thank you for this and so much more, Joshua. I only discovered your channel recently and love it! Love your sense of humour too! 😉 With the caçik, which is similar to tzatziki, a Greek lady once told me that you MUST squeeze all the water from the cucumber! Any thoughts? Toum is on my bucket list! 🙏💙

I am from Turkey and I have to say you are very very good! The Turkish meals/salads/rice were excactly how we do it at my home.

Fun fact, "Toum" literally just means "Garlic" in arabic

I lived in the Middle East for about 10 yrs and shawarma is one of my favorite foods! I’ve got that verticals rotisserie too and have to say it’s NOT optional if you want the real flavor 😝 Never layered the onion and garlic and will use that for my next cook. Nice job

Ouff, one of your best meal episodes, yumyum 😋, and very good save-time-that-still-pack-a-punch recipes

the narration on this episode especially was beautiful so many parts and ingredients

As a Syrian I'm totally surprised that an international chef like you making the most traditional dish of my culture, I feeling so proudly

So impressed by the level of work and effort at authenticity. It was so much fun to watch you getting so into this. Thanks so much for sharing, this

I want to give a round of applause to you as a Turk. Most of these dishes were accurately made and only few pieces were differently made than what I personally am used to. My mom personally doesn’t make gözleme with garlic and I also haven’t seen a restaurant do that, it still looks good though. Cacik was made well, don’t really have anything to say about that. Most of the times our shawarma isn’t made with garlic and onion in the middle but some might do it like that. We normally don’t eggyolk the bazlama and just let it kind of cook on a superhit pan for like 30seconds. The helwa/helva was done really well but it isn’t the only helva and there are more interesting flavors is what I personally think. All and all a great video with great things!

Meals completely from scratch is my favorite type of Joshua videos

Dang i like this video. I like the big feast recipes cuz i love to shake things up in my kitchen like that and spend alot of time on whole courses and feasts, and not just try a new dish. More of that please. Also i like the new kinda style, b-roll at the end. I like new stuff so i love it

I’d love to see Josh do a Lebanese version with our spices and sides. We do it best 🇱🇧

Joshua has to be THE hardest working RU-vidr ! Appreciate all you do JW !!

Now for Christmas, I very much approve ✅👏 Looks amazing & perfect

Very nice to see some Turkish cuisine featured on the channel. Absolutely delicious choices you made :)

God this looks mouthwatering, thank you papa!

My parents were hoping to go to Israel for their 40th anniversary but had to cancel plans due to the war. So my siblings and I planned an anniversary evening for them and did a middle eastern themed meal last night. My wife and I used this recipe for the most part for our supper and it turned out amazing. My mom kept raving about it! Excellent job Josh!

Great toum Joshua ! Chicken marination is also awesome great job 🙏🏻

This is the stuff I subscribed for 🤤

finally after so many iterations of meat on bread we finally have the greatest one of them all

Ulises' grandmother is amazing! I love how she sends you nice towels and so forth.

As a Turkish-Australian this is amazing waited so long for you to make Turkish food. your Döner Looks so gooddddd!

Fun fact: In Mexico, it can be said that it is a copy and paste of Shawarma, the difference is that they usually use marinated pork with a piece of pineapple on the tip so that it also cooks, just like using a tortilla as is customary to make tacos and goes very well with the hot sauces.

How cute is that shawarma spit?! Your recipes never disappoint! 🤤

This was great. I am waiting for someone to make beef shawarma. Also, keep in mind that often times food processors aren't the best for toum as the heat from the machine can break the sauce. I have used two sets immersion blenders that have been sitting in the freezer.

i'm proud i love seeing you cook any thing that have to do with my cultur and toum is the best

thank you brother joshua, jazak allah khayr for this beautiful meal ma sha allah

The only thing i'd add would be pickled turnip, but that probably would definitely add to the time needed

I don't care about all the other additions but I was waiting to see how you made the toum like 🤨🤨🤨 AND THEN YOU NAILED IT. This is the *best* and most authentic way to make toum aka the best sauce in the world. Kudos Joshua!

I love how he makes theese videos super quiet so they are 3am friendly.

Hey Josh, love your vids! I've been watching them for a couple years but am going to comment on this one because it's shawarma. I'm from Ottawa, Canada arguably one of the biggest shawarma places in the world, where we have basically more shawarma shops than McDonalds here. For me, the two most crucial elements of the shawarma is the toum (garlic sauce) and nice rotisserie chicken shavings that are crispy and browned on the outside and juicy and amazing on the inside. I think you nailed both in this video so hats off to you my man. Being picky, my only two things would be that most of the good shawarma spots here actually use pita rather than flatbread (which is more of a gyro thing in Ottawa from my experience); however, I know a lot of authentic recipes use flatbread so it doesn't really matter. Also the big "pickled-shawarma-vegetable" around Ottawa is pickled turnip (my personal fav), but glad you included a pickled element (cucumbers, carrots, pepper). Good job dude, I'm tired of all the shawarma recipes/shops out there with mayonnaise or sour cream based garlic sauces and chicken that is not in the form of beautiful rotisserie style shavings. 10/10

Amazing recipe , looks tasty 😋

Drink every time Josh calles something 'that bad boy'

LOOKS SO GOOD

josh just made my childhood right there! Masallah!!

Finally, a Joshua Weissman recipe that I can find all of the ingredients natively

Shawarma is really popular where I live with the entire community so watching this made me so happy

Josh is absolutely maximizing the use of this new kitchen and i love it

Idk if youll ever notics this but Joshua itd be so cool if you could look into the cuisine of the carribean most notably trinidad or at least Jamaica as a persom raised around it and who love our food. Its a real crime that no big food channel really seems to ackowledge us

I saw the Amazon mention and I immediately threw all my children into the sea.

as an egyptian bro you’ve done a great job. my mom was impressed

Crazy how, I always watch your videos. But never actually cook this. So pleasing to just watch you cook bud haha

I'm middle eastern and I say; Hats off to you, Joshua, that looks AMAZING. Well done!

i just made myself a shawarma and this video pops up

Amazing sir I love your recipe always

The shawarma place near me puts an onion and a lemon on top. They serve it with some of the lemon zest and it goes perfectly with it

MY SYRIAN HEART!! I LOVE YOU JOSHUA THIS MAKES ME VERY HAPPY :) thank you I’ve wanted you to do a shawarma recipe for so long this makes me super happy! I’ll try this when I can and update how it goes :)

I'd keep the garlic germ when it comes to making toum. I like my toum to have a bit of a kick to it. 😀

As a shawarma lover, I think you nailed it.

As on Ottawan! Which is considered to be the best place to have shawarma in North America, I approve this.

I'll never go to an Amazon Fresh store as long as I fucking live. If anyone actually heeds this ad, you will be doing harm to their soul and body. Great video tho!

Me watching this pretending if ever put in his much work for food: 👁️👄👁️

Omg! This would have been amazing to run into y'all there. Being one of the people that actually got me into wanting to cook.

We add oranges and their zest to our shawarma marination. Also, when marinating shawarmas try as much as possible to stay away from dark seasonings. For example, instead of black pepper, use white pepper. You want your shawarma meat white, not dark looking. Yogurt is a must if you want tender juicy chicken. As for the garlic sauce, we do ours with corn starch. It’s a bit different than the Lebanese version, but much creamier I find. Great video!

Pls make a proper Turkish Shish Tawook and Lahmejun one day. Sick vid as always, we all know we ain't doin this at home.

Love the video. Good mix of a lot of things. However, you can’t have a spread like that without baba ganoush and garlic potatoes. Show us a recipe for something like that.

Great to see something familiar. Thank you Josh for this video.

I'm retired now, but I was a profession cook for many years, so you can only begin to imagine how picky I am. Now for me this is high praise, but you are a good cook, and an excellent teacher!

all of this is basically Russian street food and I absolutely LOVE these recipes :3 though the shawarma could be wrapped like a burrito, it goes even harder that way

How cool that you were at my Amazon Fresh store. Love your recipes thanks for sharing!!

Who wants this man to make a series of cooking dishes from other countries, say AYE!

I made most of this tonight. The fluffy garlic thing was so cool! My son helped me with the garlic (it’s a lot to peel and degerm) and he was amazed at how nice that ended up being. Question. Why remove the germ in the garlic?

I need to see you make some Somali food one day

As someone who lives in the shawarma capital of Canada (and allegedly the world), I will never do this but thank you anyway😌

PAPA FINALLY TEACHING THE ART OF TOUM!!!!!

Never seen a RU-vidr in Illinois, let alone Naperville of all places!! That is awesome.