Low FODMAP chicken shawarma
Today I was in the supermarket and I started to observe what other people were putting in their cart (am I the only one who does that?). Shawarma was one of the things that I saw in people’s carts quite often.
We used to eat that too now and then when I was younger. I loved it and it was so easy. Shawarma in the pan, the pita’s in the oven, a bit of lettuce and loads of garlic sauce and you could eat it.
Mmm. Remembering all this got me craving shawarma too, so I made low FODMAP chicken shawarma.
Sometimes IBS and the low FODMAP diet frustrates me. You can never throw a package of seasoned shawarma in a pan and eat it.
But it doesn’t help to complain about it, if I want to eat shawarma I’ll have to make it myself and that’s what I did. FODMAP and preferably also a bit healthier.
Killed two birds with one stone there!
I used chicken breast and made my own shawarma seasoning, spelt pita with it, yoghurt sauce, some vegetables and my low FODMAP chicken shawarma was ready to eat!
Home-made low FODMAP chicken shawarma
- Total Time: 30 min
- Servings: 4 1x
Description
Low FODMAP chicken shawarma with homemade seasoning mix and yoghurt sauce. Enjoying a shawarma pita, but then low FODMAP. With gluten-free option.
Ingredients
- 4 gluten-free pita’s or spelt pita’s
- 400 g chicken breast
- iceberg lettuce
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 bell pepper
For the shoarma spices
- (I did this without measuring, I will give the proportions of the different spices, but you can best decide for yourself how much of the mixture you want to make)
- 2 x black pepper
- 2 x ground turmeric
- 2 x ground ginger
- 2 x paprika powder
- 2x cumin seed
- 1 x salt
- 1 x red pepper
- 1 x nutmeg
- 1 x dried parsley
- 1 x cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- For the yoghurt dressing
- 6 tablespoons of (lactose-free) yoghurt
- pepper
- salt
- dried parsley
- a splash of lemon juice
Instructions
- Mix all spices together and add the olive oil. Cut the chicken breast into strips and put them in a bowl. Add the spices mixture and mix this together well. Leave the chicken to marinate a bit.
- In the meantime cut the tomatoes and the bell pepper in small pieces and cut some iceberg lettuce in strips.
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (or according to the instructions on the package of the pita bread) and bake the pita’s
- Heat some olive oil in a pan and bake the chicken while continuously stirring it through. Add the pieces of bell pepper and bake this too.
- In the meantime, you can make the yoghurt dressing by adding all ingredients together in a bowl and mixing it together.
- Put some lettuce and tomato in the pita’s, add the chicken mixture and serve with the yoghurt dressing. Goes very well with some baked potatoes!
- I also ate a low FODMAP bbq sauce with it, you can buy this in the supermarket. Make sure to check the ingredients and avoid sauces with high FODMAP ingredients such as garlic and onion.
- Prep Time: 30 min
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1 Comment
This was very tasty – thank you. Never used dried parsley in a marinade before – what a great addition!