Shawarma chuck roast wrap

  • Ingredients 12 Ingredients
  • Total time 615 min total
  • Servings Serves Serves 6
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Cuisine Saudi Arabian
  • Category Beef
Recipe byThe ZestyPlate Kitchen
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Beef chuck slow-cooked in warm shawarma spices until it shreds, then wrapped in pita with garlic sauce and griddled. Deeply savoury.

A hands-off route to big Middle Eastern flavour: chuck roast braised slowly in warm spices and lemon until it pulls apart, then shredded and packed into wraps. The slow cooker handles it all while you get on with your day. Spread on some garlic sauce, fold, and griddle for a proper handheld meal.
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Ingredients

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  • 1kg Chuck Roast
  • 1 cup Beef Stock
  • 3 tablespoons Lemon Juice
  • 1 tablespoon Ground Cumin
  • 2 tsp Paprika
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Ground Ginger
  • 1 tsp Turmeric
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon Ground Coriander
  • 1/4 tsp Ground Clove
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Shawarma chuck roast wrap

Preparation

  1. Put all the spices, the beef broth and the lemon juice into a Dutch oven or slow cooker and stir to combine.
  2. Add the beef, turn it to coat and spoon a little sauce over the top.
  3. Cover and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours.
  4. Once cooked, lift out the beef and shred it with two forks, discarding any large bits of fat.
  5. Skim the fat from the surface of the remaining liquid.
  6. Stir the shredded beef back into the sauce and keep it warm until you are ready to serve.
  7. Build each wrap by spreading garlic sauce over the pita, then adding beef and the garnishes you fancy.
  8. Fold it up burrito-style.
  9. Heat a grill pan and griddle the wrap.

Tips from the ZestyPlate Kitchen

  • Pick a well-marbled chuck roast, as the fat melts down over long cooking and leaves the meat tender.
  • Keep the heat low and the time long until the beef shreds with two forks.
  • Skim the fat off the sauce, then stir the beef back in so it stays moist.
  • Griddle the finished wraps for a crisp, toasted outside.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Cover it and cook in a low oven, around 150C, for several hours until the beef is fork-tender, topping up the liquid if it gets low.

Chuck roast, sometimes sold as braising steak, is the one. Its marbling breaks down over long cooking into juicy, tender shreds.

Garlic or tahini sauce, pickles, tomato, lettuce, onion and a dab of chilli sauce all sit well together.

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