Perfect Shawarma: Takeout vs Pro Chef | Taking on Takeout | Bon Appétit

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We challenged chef Harold Villarosa to make a chicken shawarma sandwich in the Bon Appétit test kitchen that outclasses the options he sampled from 4 local takeout spots. Does Unkle Harold have what it takes to not only reproduce the complex flavors but elevate them all into something even better than takeout restaurant shawarma? Hard to imagine, but Harold is ready.
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@mstrasser 2 года назад

Love this series and Harold. But can't un-see how he's dressed as a sriracha bottle . EDIT: not everyone might have a broiler or grill < brings out Searzall> heck yes! lol

@billypilgrim1 2 года назад

Lol that's genius

@TheSteveStrom 2 года назад

Can’t unsee.

@mstrasser 2 года назад

@@TheSteveStrom yeah. sorry! haha

@tahoforbreakfast 2 года назад

Perfect! I love Harold and I love Sriracha!

@cluster027 2 года назад

Love both of them!

@redsnow123456 2 года назад

The real Lebanese shawarma has garlic sauce which is not mentioned in most of the videos on youtube. The sauce is lots of garlic thrown into a blender while adding oil and lemon juice until it becomes like mayonnaise (no egg whites needed).

@careybuchanan 2 года назад

can you add sesame paste or yoghurt into the blender as well?

@redsnow123456 2 года назад

@@careybuchanan no. The tarator sauce is for meat shawarma not the chicken. There is staples in Lebanese cuisine that we are strict to it when it comes to shawarma...chicken shawarma is with pure garlic sauce. Meat shawarma is with tarator (tahini, lemon, water, salt, pepper). And the tarator should be white thats why some of the ingredients should be added to the tahini first to make it white.

@culodesobra 2 года назад

They call it Alioli in some places

@yahyainsider 2 года назад

THANK YOU redsnow! Finally some sense in the comments section

@yahyainsider 2 года назад

@@culodesobra nope! Alioli is something totally different

@ryephil 2 года назад

"some people dont have a grill or broiler at their crib" pulls out a flamthrower*

@kimbarbeaureads 2 года назад

I think I'll stick with my cast iron grill pan. Lol

@mt3776 4 месяца назад

Don’t most people have one of those?

@kevinblessing4257 2 года назад

I love how he's like, ya'll might not have a vertical spit to roast with, here's a funky burner that you definitely don't have. Haha dope recipe thought

@zahidkhadri8149 2 года назад

For all shawarma lovers out there: Go find a Syrian style shawarma! It's a street style shawarma with spit roasted chicken, fries, garlic toum and pickles! Simple yet so good!

@SalamBustanji 2 года назад

Nothing beats authentic Levant shawarma with toum and pickles mmm

@chadd990 2 года назад

bro, I'm american. I found a guy that puts grilled chicken in a flour tortilla with some hot sauce. I can't even locate syria on a map, but I'm pretty sure it's in russia. idk.

@AlbanZap 2 года назад

This is every shawarma

@808_murda2 Год назад

@@chadd990 ??? How do you not know geography syria is a country...

@chadd990 Год назад

@@808_murda2 twas a joke, my good man.

@Sam_Perman 2 года назад

I just want to be friends with Harold.

@3zvx99 2 года назад

Same

@nottheoneyourelookingfor0504 2 года назад

Guy has no personality. Might as well be phoning it in. Dude’s putting me to sleep.

@jonathancramer9623 2 года назад

Swear to God I was bout to say this.

@broadwaywes 2 года назад

Can we like…. All be friends with Harold?

@jillmorgan8138 2 года назад

@@3zvx99 you

@ArmandoPenblade 2 года назад

Only thing I'd add for new cooks is to smash the cardamom pods with a knife and take out the little black seeds inside. Only grind those up, not the whole green pod. If you've got a really powerful spice grinder it can def take care of the pods, but they don't add a ton of flavor and are very woody in texture. If you're using a weak grinder or doing it by hand in a mortar and pestle, save your future self and set them seeds free!

@theforeverpuddle8754 2 года назад

Yooo he is such a good cook. What a great addition to the BA kitchen. Dude is 100% new york. Fire!

@Lkmsundastood 2 года назад

I would love to see him make his own version of Chicken over rice

@remidurant4802 2 года назад

when making the tahini and white sauce, I like to macerate the garlic with the lemon juice first. The acid helps to mellow out the raw garlic flavor so it doesn't just overtake everything else.

@mongedbongjovi7817 2 года назад

Wow cheers that's a hot tip, I think I always worry too much about garlic being too aggressive when you use it uncooked.

@cozyvamp 2 года назад

Actually, in this, you don't wat the garlic mellowed out -- it's another element of heat.

@JSaltyfabricator 2 года назад

I like to mash the garlic in a mortar and pestle with lemon juice and salt. The salt helps get the water out of the garlic and gets it to emulsify better 🤙

@jumbo1701 2 года назад

I absolutely love this guy. Want to see more of him.

@jessicasutherland151 2 года назад

I'm living for the heavenly music over the searing chicken with the Searzall. YAAAAAS!!! I needed that in my life today! Thank you, BA!

@benderalrubaian6491 2 года назад

Arabic guy POV: That’s a lot for a shawarma... keep it simple . Chicken and garlic sauce,shatta (hot sauce) and always wrap it with the bread, don’t put it inside .

@kjdude8765 2 года назад

Salty as pasta water in these comments. Everyone thinking their experience is the only one that matters.

@gpcarnage4881 2 года назад

One thing I noticed in earlier episodes that is underappreciated is Harold's knife skills. The dude is a surgeon with that thing.

@scottmclagan4276 2 года назад

Harold...you so rock. "Finger...sometimes it don't grow back" LOL. Can't wait for this.

@garcipat 2 года назад

Looks delicious. People eat a lot Kebab in my country and I always wish they would prepare it with more love.

@jonto9453 2 года назад

Döner !

@CallMeGenius318 2 года назад

Yes Man, bring the Germans!!

@sean7139 2 года назад

I love to get Turkische pizza whenever I get döner. Pineapple and siracha just makes it 😘🤌

@thaddeuseliasdecaprio4148 2 года назад

This is definitely something, but it is not shawarma 🧐

@nicholaspetrie1658 2 года назад

Should do a Pro Chef vs Ethic Mum (because you know Mama always cooks best) do a blind tasting with someone and they can prefer there fav

@MrSimonj1970 2 года назад

Great recipe, I usually use a Lebanese prepacked shawarma spice blend, it's really good! MSG always helps 😅

@lindholmaren 2 года назад

The searzall bit was great lmao I, when I don't feel like going onto my -25C balcony in the winter or into a cabin in the woods just to char some chicken, personally just get a cast iron pan or two and get them screaming hot to sear off the chicken, it's not the same but it works in a pinch.

@cozyvamp 2 года назад

I preheat mine under the broiler, throw in the chicken and right back under the broiler.

@SpaceQueefs 2 года назад

Harold cusses like he cooks, perfectly, he sprinkles it in with purpose and to enhance the sentence. Wish they didn't have to bleep it

@AceADore 2 года назад

Swearing is like adding flavour to language. Shakespeare was a brilliant chef.

@umsami 2 года назад

Best shawarma is in Bay Ridge...Karam's. Have to have the toum (garlic sauce) and the left (bright pink pickled turnips). Tzatziki is a second choice. Tahini is usually on beef/lamb.

@DieTreppenwitz 2 года назад

Little trick for the marinade, instead of putting the onions like he does, you fry the onions until they go crisp and golden. If you do it right it'll be crispy and can crumble into a powder, which you mix into the marinade. Its really good and KINDA but not exactly traditional.

@anticalgary 2 года назад

Loved this guy. So chill, such confidence, and great flavours. More please

@crazyrobots6565 2 года назад

Really? Everyone seems to love this guy. I guess I'm just immune to his charms. I find him obnoxious if not unbearable.

@allroundlad 2 года назад

@@crazyrobots6565 What's so unbearable? He's just a super chill guy who has a calm, positive energy to him that's why people are saying they wanna be friends with him.

@crazyrobots6565 2 года назад

@@allroundlad he strikes me as a BSer. He strikes me as the one friend who loves the sound of his own voice, and just talks, and talks, and talks even when he has nothing interesting in the world to say. He strikes me as someone who makes it up as they go, trying to convince you they are an expert at it. I find all of those things obnoxious. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, I'm just saying I'm not struck by his charm or whatever else.

@Rocioslane 2 года назад

Harold stay out here killin’ the game! 👌🏼

@joezzieez 2 года назад

If you add the lemon to the tahini first it fluffs it up and creates a more smooth form texture .

@RocketToSleep 2 года назад

Harold, you done sold me on that Searzall. I hope they compensate you for that! I always appreciate your videos.

@lemondrop8703 2 года назад

I thought he was really gonna give a hack and than pulled out a torch 😭😭

@soldierofmankind 2 года назад

Much respect to his version of Shawarma. It would also be great if he can do a homemade version of the lot with less ingredients. Cheers mate.

@wowTasteThis 2 года назад

This is a staple in our house. Pretty much the same recipe. Almost everything is regular groceries or pantry items.

@burritodoge8450 2 года назад

U can probably buy a pre mixed spice blend for shawarma out there. Harold is just showing us how shawarma is made using raw ingredients because nowadays everything is pre made and convinient for us. Heck you can even buy minced garlic/onions in bag, chopped veggies, etc.

@charlesmills6621 2 года назад

What he's making looks good, but it's not shwarma, nor is it doner kebab.

@KawaRider88 2 года назад

You can take all the ingredients, throw it in a bowl and mix it up and then add it to pita. When you bite into the sandwich you want all the flavors. Not a big bite of lettuce.

@AceADore 2 года назад

Not YOU maybe. Personally I like about half a head. Was a rabbit for sure in a previous life.

@noorie3381 2 года назад

i love harold in these videos hes the goat fr

@itsmetonylei2540 2 года назад

I do a whole chicken with shawarma seasoning. Something about cooking the whole chicken gives it a deeper flavor.

@marieanne7569 2 года назад

That sounds amazing!

@hidecki 2 года назад

How low are you wearing your Rolex while cooking? Harold: YEs!

@aj-og9pc 2 года назад

i absolutely love him

@CA_88 Год назад

Harold is what we need 2023

@Elionsfreak11 2 года назад

Harold got that signing bonus on his wrist

@Judas3rd 2 года назад

That is not shoarma in Holland, Its called döner. Here in Holland shoarma is pork. Döner is chicken or veil.

@eymiR99 2 года назад

10:03 I died when the music distorted 😂 shoutout to the editors ahaha

@noneyabid 2 года назад

"I'm not 6'7" though..." Actual spit take.

@kaylasalcedo5533 2 года назад

Inlove with Harold ! 😍😍

@Anyoneplease 2 года назад

WE LOVE HAROLD

@rgooske 2 года назад

Been watching Bon Appetites videos for a while Harold takes the cake the best next level.

@sih1095 2 года назад

I just kept shouting MINT MINT when he was making the white sauce.. 😊

@fernandacortes4796 2 года назад

Harold looks like he enjoys cooking and making things the best way possible.

@katjaalsheimer 2 года назад

Its called Döner in Germany and you can get it everywhere. Love your Version

@alexanderstark5192 2 года назад

Called donairs in canada

@call_me_ping Год назад

I loveeeeee Harold LOL! He's such a vibe

@DlaBrouedansleToupet 2 года назад

I love this series and this chef 💜

@SugarHimRly 2 года назад

Yo the color on his, CRAZY! 👌🏽

@clixmania 2 года назад

Habibi shawarma is a simple concept... in my Lebanese opinion you're take on it was an overkill

@stevenmcgovern2121 2 года назад

Harold is my favorite.

@evleevle4538 2 года назад

I love Harold so much

@benjamindouglas862 2 года назад

I live in the rural South, but there is a university town maybe, 60k ppl, about 20 miles away. I don't know why but there is a fairly large Sunni Iraqi immigrant population here, about 5 to 10k, we have the only mosque for a 150 miles. This allows me to get top quality shawarma, it's absolutely awesome and the perfect working lunch for $7.82. May the God of Abraham bless us all.

@arlenesolis024 2 года назад

South Bronx all the way Harold you are a beast in the kitchen. I’m drooling 🤤

@huitrecouture Год назад

Without a doubt, BA's most accomplished, interesting, funny and educational chef - gone.

@harayaespadrilles6108 2 года назад

Harold is lit! 🔥

@apzdanbrok 2 года назад

Looks amazing and I definitely want to try to remake this but add my own twist on it lol you know every chef does🤍 can’t wait I loooove shawarma and Gyros 🥙

@jermainebryant96 2 года назад

I'm a simple man: I see Harold, I click

@SeriousKween 2 года назад

3am drunk me wants the takeout shawarma. Day 2 of healthy living me wants the bon appetit shawarma.

@lsmc8909 2 года назад

Ok I’m on board with these ingredients, but not with the assembly, you need to roll it in a thin pita and all the ingredients are in each bite, not adding them into a single opening.

@relo999 2 года назад

Than it stops being a Kabab, but becomes a Darum.

@lsmc8909 2 года назад

@@relo999 I don’t know darum, but this is shawarma

@relo999 2 года назад

@@lsmc8909 Shawarma is what the Americans call Doner Kebab (or a mix of shoarma and Doner Kebab). Shoarma is marinated rotisserie meat that's not sliced but cut in square strips and than baked. Doner Kebab is rotisserie meat sliced and put in bread with vegetables/salad. What Harrold shows is a weird mix between them both. While making a weird mix of both (though probably quite tasty mix). As for Durum is using Doner meat or shoarma (most often doner) and filling a lahmacun with it and salad and veggies. lahmacun being "Turkish pizza", a wrap with a thin layer of minced meat and some very small minced veggies and spices. What Americans call "Shawarma" is basically a bastardized version of a Doner Kebab.

@lsmc8909 2 года назад

@@relo999 Shawarma is called shawarma in Syria and Lebanon, I’ve had doner kebab in Turkey, it’s not as good. But this video isn’t authentic to Syria/Lebanon either

@relo999 2 года назад

@@lsmc8909 What Harold is trying to recreate here is Doner Kebab though. Granted I imagine what you get in NYC is adjusted to american tastes rather than taste original culture, I've seen this happen a lot on American cooking shows (including bon Appetit). But what you describe in your OP most closely matches a Durum Doner.

@anandroy8437 2 года назад

this is more like a chicken doner.. shawarma is completely different!!!

@adwoaagyemfra2038 2 года назад

Can we get a falafel wrap with Chrissy? 🥺🥺

@platoonutzeyz88 2 года назад

I need a friend like Harold in my life.

@escapist83 2 года назад

Man, that thumbnail has the saturation absolutely cranked for the right hand side.

@bartender4877 2 года назад

How does a pro chef use store bought pita bread and products?

@lexxdiamondz 2 года назад

The Goon with The Spoon!

@AsianThunder0 2 года назад

this dude cracks me up. the julia child bit was gold

@LilDimSumBoy 2 года назад

really disappointed he didn't make toum or make his own pickled turnips

@DrLili-DrawnByTheDevil 2 года назад

Honestly just looks like a gyro made by someone who only ever read what a gyro was in cook books...

@willie530 2 года назад

As soon as Harold showed up on screen, I was a fan.

@leenyousef9565 2 года назад

Looks good but a traditional Arabic shawerma is a lot simpler than this. Just chicken,garlic sauce, and pickles wrapped in thin bread not pita

@Mira_Vos 2 года назад

I love Harold!

@TheBakanec 2 года назад

Dude looks like if Big Smoke quit the gang life and opened up a restaurant 😁

@jmason61 2 года назад

Great video... I've never had one of these, only the Greek version of a pita sandwich. Looks delicious I'm crazy hungry now

@Jeanology 2 года назад

I agree with you on using Chicken thighs instead

@rethinkcps2116 2 года назад

That looks like a prestige watch. Anyone know what it is: make & model?

@mentat1341 2 года назад

Harold is very entertaining

@dghaily 2 года назад

I respect what you did, it looks like a great chicken sandwich, but please don’t call it shawarma. A real chicken shawarma sandwich looks nothing like the five sandwiches here. Check out Sohla’s video on how to make toum, which is essential to a chicken shawarma sandwich. Also check out Anthony Rahayel’s video series on Lebanese shawarma. Both videos are on RU-vid.

@anitamartinez9309 Год назад

He's copying the restaurants there it's not just him

@formofjon 2 года назад

What's the name of the fourth take-out place that Harold liked so much???

@laurentimko9834 2 года назад

Harold is the man

@philontour 2 года назад

welcome to the world of german döner.

@kayleighskitchen646 2 года назад

Hey. This looks so good. Where can I get the list of the ingredients. My mouth was watering watching it. X

@michaelhope666 2 года назад

Harold! Killing it.

@TheStallion234 2 года назад

This brings me back to 4am after the bar in NYC

@sherlocklourembam1903 2 года назад

The marinade is his take on the original version. Put sumac and cinnamon next time. And for the white sauce, it's actually called 'toum' which is an emulsion of garlic, lots of oil and lemon juice.

@MsCafecito 2 года назад

Been looking for this recipe. I trust Harold’s version.

@basbosaize 2 года назад

His shawarma is all about the salad Which actually has nothing to do with a shawerma

@jesshgip 2 года назад

Thought on using both vinegar and lemon in the white sauce? Too much acid?

@mtalhaawais 2 года назад

Lol, this is not shawarma. 😂

@adedow1333 2 года назад

"Everybody loves the halal guys." This is truth

@pokerbosscycler 2 года назад

could be they pile the stuff on a flat iron its not on a spit. ugly stuff here in las vegas.

@french1375 2 года назад

I’d love to know where the other 3 spots were.

@IanMRadcliffe 2 года назад

big homie harold 🔥🔥

@demazin2000 2 года назад

I love this guy!

@Jeanology 2 года назад

Where can I get #3 and #4?!?

@harayaespadrilles6108 2 года назад

Same question. 🤤

@missingabyme 2 года назад

nyc --- 3- Miriam 4-Zyara

@fiercepandaz 2 года назад

The fact that this dude didn't bother to make a fresh pita (and wears a toque in the kitchen) says all I need to know.

@ZaEnthusiast 2 года назад

bro that Sharma look so good when you were putting it together. it might be cause ima bit smacked but i wish i could pull it through the screen and take a bite, nice recipe bro