Pinoy food trip favorite Shawarma Rice. Ang sarap ulit ulitin! Make it at home for some guilty pleasures or why not venture into a small food business? Swak na swak sa food trip negosyo. Happy Cooking!
SHAWARMA RICE RECIPE
INGREDIENTS:
- For Beef Tapa:
- 500g beef sirloin, tapa cut
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Bird’s eye chili, optional
- For Cucumber Salad:
- 1 pc cucumber, seeded, halved & sliced thinly
- 4 pcs tomato, seeded, sliced
- 1 medium white onion mince and cubed
- shredded cabbage
- For Garlic Yogurt Sauce:
- 1 small tub yogurt (125ml)
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp minced fresh garlic
- 1/8 tsp salt
- For Shawarma Rice:
- 2 cups long grain rice (Jasmine or basmati)
- 2 cups water
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 1/2 tsp kasubha (crocus in english or dried safflower) alternatively use turmeric powder
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Arrange the cucumber salad ingredients together in a bowl, serve on the side of shawarma rice.
- For the White Shawarma Sauce: In a bowl combine together all ingredients for garlic yogurt sauce. Keep mixed sauce in the chiller until ready to use.
- Rinse rice, put in a rice cooker together with water, margarine and kasubha. Cook rice as we would normally do. Once cooked, fluff rice to distribute color. Set aside and keep warm.
- For the beef: In a bowl, marinate beef in soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic powder and black pepper for 20 minutes or overnight.
- Pan fry marinated tapa in oil until browned. Chop into pieces.
- To assemble, put rice on plate, cucumber salad on the side. Top minced tapa over rice. Drizzle garlic yogurt sauce all over the beef & rice.
- For the Pink yogurt sauce: Just put a drop of hot sauce over your garlic sauce. And your diner can choose from regular sauce or hot sauce. Serve and Enjoy!
YOU MAY ALSO TRY OUR:
Homemade Beef Tapa
Credits @Loidiman, @JnnyRoseglz and @Rafik
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