Hen Shawarma Wraps – Emily Bites

These Hen Shawarma Wraps are straightforward to make with a tasty marinade and tons of recent taste! Conventional shawarma meats are cooked stacked on a vertical spit, however as most individuals don’t have that capacity at residence, I roasted my hen within the oven. You might additionally grill the hen on this recipe if that’s your desire! I discovered the marinade for this recipe within the NY Instances cooking app, although I selected to make use of hen breasts as an alternative of the extra generally used thighs to lighten it up a bit. I served my hen sliced and wrapped in a pita with roasted onions, lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, parsley and a straightforward do-it-yourself white sauce and it was so scrumptious. Higher nonetheless, your complete wrap with all these elements is simply 298 energy or 4 WW Factors on the present Weight Watchers plan! To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and observe it within the WW app or web site, click on right here!

Ingredient Notes

• Hen Cutlets: You’re going to wish to use hen breast cutlets which are uniformly thinly sliced to about ½” thick. In case your cutlets are completely different thicknesses they will cook dinner erratically with the thinner elements drying out whereas the thicker elements end cooking. You should purchase hen breast cutlets within the retailer or make them by yourself by slicing full-sized breasts in half horizontally to make two cutlets. If wanted, you’ll be able to pound your cutlets a bit to make sure even thickness.
• Pita: I take advantage of Joseph’s Flax, Oat Bran and Entire Wheat Pita Bread as a result of they style good, are dimension, and are solely 60 energy or 1 WW Level every! I purchase them at Wegmans, however it seems to be like they’re additionally offered at Walmart. In the event you select to make use of a unique pita you could want to regulate the WW Factors and estimated diet info.
• White Sauce: I made a decision to make a white sauce for these Hen Shawarma Wraps, which is often yogurt with lemon juice and garlic combined in for a vivid and creamy topping to the hen. I selected to additionally combine in mayonnaise and tahini for added taste. In the event you don’t have tahini readily available you may make the white sauce with out tahini, however in the event you like a nutty sesame taste then tahini is a really tasty addition! Simply be sure to stir/shake the tahini earlier than utilizing as a result of it will probably separate.
• Non-compulsory Additions: My Hen Shawarma Wraps are stuffed with roasted hen and onions, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, parsley, and white sauce. In the event you’re not a fan of one of many greens I used (for instance, my husband doesn’t like cucumbers) then simply go away it out! You may as well add extra elements to your wrap equivalent to olives, Feta cheese, hummus, bell peppers, or scorching sauce to spice it up.

Recipe Ideas

• Hen Quantity: I weighed the hen after cooking and it was 1 lb 7 oz hen whole which is eight servings of two.875 oz every. Every wrap will name for that a lot hen, but when your slices find yourself somewhat brief or somewhat over you’ll be able to simply consider it as someplace between 2.75 – 3 ounces every.
• Marinating Time: I like to recommend placing the hen within the marinade within the morning after which taking it out to cook dinner at time for supper for optimum taste absorption! Nonetheless, in the event you aren’t capable of do that you could marinate it for much less time and nonetheless get tasty outcomes.
• Different Makes use of for the Hen: I like serving this marinated hen in these Hen Shawarma Wraps, however you could possibly additionally use it in different methods. In the event you don’t have any pita readily available otherwise you simply wish to change it up, undoubtedly attempt serving this hen over salad (I prefer it with a Greek French dressing) or alongside rice or different grains.
• Twine: I used butcher’s twine to tie the wraps up for the pictures simply in order that they’d keep folded the best way you’d maintain them. Be at liberty to do the identical for serving in the event you’d like, however it’s not essential.

Simply earlier than baking!

Monitoring Marinades

As I discussed, I discovered this marinade in The New York Instances cooking app and it’s scrumptious! Marinades make it somewhat tough to calculate WW Factors and diet info because the hen absorbs a few of the marinade, however most of it’s discarded. The best way I usually calculate a marinade is by weighing the marinade earlier than including the hen after which weighing it once more as soon as eradicating the hen after the marination time. Then I calculate a tough share of how a lot marinade was used vs discarded after which calculate the WW Factors and diet info utilizing that share of every marinade ingredient. It’s in all probability not an ideal methodology however it is sensible to me and provides a fairly good estimate of how a lot marinade is definitely getting used/consumed. For this recipe I weighed the marinade within the Ziploc bag earlier than including something after which once more after marinating the hen and tossing the onions in it, and about 60% of the load remained. As such, I calculated the recipe utilizing roughly 40% of the marinade elements as a result of that’s about how a lot was absorbed.

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