Not always a person, especially in big cities, has the opportunity to eat at home or in special institutions: canteens, cafes and restaurants. Sometimes you have to do it right on the street. You can buy some pie or bun, but it is better to eat a more satisfying and tasty dish. For example, shawarma.
Juicy, hot meat wrapped in a thin tortilla with cucumbers and sauce is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. A dish can easily replace even breakfast or dinner. Moscow has a large number of establishments where you can buy it without fear of poisoning.
Where is the most delicious shawarma in Moscow? What does it consist of? How to cook? What Moscow establishments do it? First things first.
What does shawarma consist of
- Any meat: chicken, beef, pork, lamb.
- Thin cake: pita bread, savory pancake, pita.
- Vegetables: onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage.
- Carrots, you can take Korean or fresh.
- Mayonnaise, ketchup.
- Sometimes the composition of the most delicious shawarma or shawarma, as it is sometimes called, may include other products, such as: cheese, beef or chicken liver, crab sticks.
Shawarma Recipes
This dish can be prepared at home. There are many recipes. Most importantly, do not be afraid to experiment. The advantage of cooking shawarma at home is that the products can be taken at your discretion and only fresh. On the street, we can not always be sure of this. Some popular recipes for making shawarma.
- With chicken hearts. Boil half a kilogram of chicken hearts, then cut into several pieces and salt. Grate fresh carrots, salt, add a little vinegar, pepper, sunflower oil. Cut into pieces one or two pickled cucumbers. Take two pita bread, one will be too thin. Lubricate it with ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise. Put chicken hearts in the middle, carrots on top, then cucumbers. Wrap the shawarma. Now you need to fry it on both sides in a pan.
- With pork or chicken. Cut the meat into pieces and fry it until cooked. Cut into small cubes fresh cucumbers (2-3 pieces) and tomatoes. On a coarse grater we rub one large carrot, cut the onions into rings. Grease pita bread with mayonnaise. We spread meat, vegetables, onions. Add the sauce on top. You can cook the one you like best. Or take ketchup, mayonnaise and add garlic, mix everything well. Sprinkle with herbs: parsley, dill, green onions. Wrap pita bread.
Cooking shawarma on the streets of Moscow
How to cook street shawarma? For cooking, as a rule, they take pita bread, chicken, vegetables, ketchup, mayonnaise and greens. Fried and cut into pieces the meat is spread on a thin pancake smeared with mayonnaise. Then put chopped cucumbers and tomatoes, Korean carrots, onions. They are greased with ketchup and mayonnaise, then wrapped, and one of the favorite dishes of Muscovites and visitors is ready.
If you decide to buy shawarma on the street, then pay attention to several points:
- Mandatory availability of gloves from the seller.
- No unpleasant odors.
What meat is suitable for shawarma
Once upon a time, only lamb was used for this dish. There is nothing surprising in this, because the homeland of shawarma is East, and there this type of meat was the most popular. Lamb has a very low cholesterol level and a lot of useful substances and vitamins.
Today, for the preparation of shawarma use different meat: chicken, pork, beef, lamb, turkey. Use even minced meat and chicken stomachs. There are a lot of recipes for cooking. The main condition, which in no case should be forgotten: fresh and specially processed meat.
Top 5 places to buy shawarma
There are many places where the most delicious shawarma in Moscow is sold. We bring to your attention the rating of the most popular institutions:
On the 5th place is a retail outlet near the Universitet metro station, on 23 a. Students really love this place. Everything is always the freshest here: meat, vegetables, greens. And importantly, they cook shawarma with gloves.
In 4th place - cafe "Mug" on the street Nizhnyaya Radischevskaya, nearby is the metro station "Taganskaya". The shawarma here is very juicy, and the prices are affordable: from 130 to 250 rubles.
The third position at the cafe "Mirage". The place, stylized as a medieval institution, makes you want to come here as often as possible. Tasty and aromatic dishes, discounts for regular customers attract a large number of visitors.
The second place is occupied by the outlet near the Kuznetsky Most metro station. You can choose the meat for the filling yourself: pork or chicken.
In the first place - cafe "Beer 46". It is located on Novoslobodskaya street. Let us dwell on it in more detail.
"Beer 46"
The working hours of one of the most popular establishments in Moscow are very easy to remember. It is open to visitors around the clock. It is so easy and carefree to rest after a working day.
Also, its advantages include:
- good music, usually in live performance;
- cashless payments;
- the ability to access the Internet;
- there are separate places for smokers;
- large selection of fresh draft beer;
- shawarma is cooked on charcoal;
- prices, in comparison with other Moscow institutions, are low.
Speaking of prices, I want to highlight another place where you can not only buy delicious shawarma at a price of 100 rubles, but also other dishes at very affordable prices.
Cafe Laffa Laffa
The name is taken from a thin cake in which shawarma is wrapped here. There is a cafe not far from the district, which Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov glorified in the novel "The Master and Margarita". It is called Patriarch Ponds.
You can order takeaway food, or you can spend several hours here. A cozy, clean cafe and excellent food have a long feast. Any order is completed within 10 minutes.
The institution can not be called big, just one room and a kitchen. But it is precisely its size that makes it so cozy that for some reason you do not want to leave. For you, the most delicious coffee will be brewed here, and not in a coffee machine, but, as it should be, in a Turk.
Here you will be offered shawarma with lamb meat, cooked according to a special recipe, in compliance with all necessary technological procedures, which eliminates a specific smell. In addition, you can order a vegetarian filling: vegetables, cheese, potatoes.
The basis for the shawarma here is a flat cake - laffa, despite the fact that it is very thin, its strength is very high. Serving size can also be chosen by yourself. Polite and smiling workers will make visiting the cafe pleasant and unforgettable.
The most delicious shawarma in Moscow
Places where you can buy it, and which deserve special attention:
- Fast food cafe "MOS DONER". Shawarma is made on charcoal. The institution works seven days a week, it is always very clean and comfortable.
- Cafe "Sinbad" in the Arbat area. Here you can buy real shawarma, rubles for 400. For lovers of the traditional version, in pita bread, it will cost half the price.
- Gorky Park. It sells the largest variety of shawarma species. In addition, it is seasoned not only with ketchup and mayonnaise, but with an unusually tasty white sauce, the recipe for which is kept in great secret.
- Cafe "Barakat No. 1". If you want to try shawarma cooked incredibly tasty and impeccably, then here you are. They use the freshest meat for cooking, and guests from Central Asia who know a lot about good shawarma often come here.
- Another institution in the Arbat region is called the "Eurocafe". They say that the only drawback of the shawarma that is cooked here is very fatty meat.
I want to warn lovers of shawarma. Do not buy it in unfamiliar places. After all, you can become a victim of scammers who prepare it without observing sanitary rules and norms. In addition, they do not always use fresh products. The most delicious shawarma in Moscow in 2016 is sold only in proven places that you read about in this article.
If you are not sure about the quality of the shawarma sold, then cook it better at home. Given the tastes of your family, you can come up with an exclusive recipe. And then the household will be happy to eat shawarma, and ask if there is still a piece left.