Dearborn-Style Shawarma Plate

Name: Dearborn-Style Shawarma Plate
Prep time: 240 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 280 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Halal Cart & American Muslim
Ingredients: 1 kg chicken thigh or beef (thinly sliced, stacked); shawarma marinade (seven-spice, garlic, lemon, yogurt for chicken); 1 toum (whipped garlic sauce); pickled turnips, fattoush, rice or pita

Metro Detroit's Arab American standard: spit-roasted chicken or beef shaved onto rice or into pita with garlic toum, pickled turnips, and fattoush — Levantine cooking that became Michigan's own regional cuisine.

4 hr 40 min · Serves 4 · Medium

Recipe by Halal Gourmet Editorial Team

Ingredients

Meat

1 kgchicken thigh or beef (thinly sliced, stacked), halal-certified

Marinade

shawarma marinade (seven-spice, garlic, lemon, yogurt for chicken)

Sauce

1 toum (whipped garlic sauce)

Serve

pickled turnips, fattoush, rice or pita

Method

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Time: Prep 240 min · Cook 40 min · 280 min total
Difficulty: medium

1
Marinate the sliced meat in the seven-spice mixture for several hours.
240 min
2
Roast on a vertical spit (or stacked in a tin), then crisp the shavings on a hot surface.
35 min
3
Serve over rice or in pita with toum, pickled turnips, and fattoush.
10 min