dinner

[cellio]

This was tasty (even though it involved neither garlic nor ginger) and easy.

Pull bag of frozen schwarma out of freezer. Conclude that there's not enough to be a main course for two people. Decide to improvise.

Dice some red potatoes and set to boil for about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat oil in a skillet and fry schwarma. While that's happening, cut up some summer sausage to supplement.

Remove schwarma; add sausage and cook. Meanwhile, dice a couple of white onions.

Remove sausage; add onions, which pick up a nice flavor from being cooked in the meat fat. Dice half a red bell pepper and add that. Cook until the onions are getting limp.

The potatoes should be softening by now. Add them to the skillet. Dump in some pepper too.

Look at skillet and plate of meat and decide that putting it all in the skillet and then "poaching" eggs in that (the original plan) may make over-cooked meat. (And is it really poaching without significant liquid? So that might not have worked anyway.)

Add meat to skillet; meanwhile, fry eggs in another skillet.

Apply skillet contents to plates and top with eggs.

Comments

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Ooh.
Sounds delicious.

[cellio]

Thanks. I wasn't sure if combining those meats would work, but it did. Belatedly, I realized that for Shabbat at Pennsic I was served a sort of stewed chicken with bits of sausage in it and that certainly worked fine.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Frozen shawarma? Cool. Did you make-ahead and freeze or did you buy it pre-made?

If homemade, could you share your recipe?
If storebought, please tell what store. There's a best-shawarma challenge going on over here.

[cellio]

Store-bought, from the freezer section of the local kosher store.

[steven.livejournal.com]

That sounds very tasty!

[cellio]

Thanks. I suspect that the vegetarian pseudo-sausage would be a reasonable substitute for the summer sausage (you might want to add a little extra oil), but I don't know if there's anything you could do for the turkey.

[eclectic-1.livejournal.com]

Shawarma? (Pardon my ignorance.)

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Yes, please elucidate. I've seen it in the chow hall here from time to time, and I don't want to try because I don't know what it is.

[cellio]

Seasoned strips of turkey, fried in oil (see other reply below).

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Oo, sounds yummy. I'll have to try them next time I see them.

[cellio]

Shwarma is a middle-eastern rendition of turkey. The turkey is cut into thin strips, seasoned (I'm not sure with what and the packaging doesn't help), and fried.

I don't have a lot of experience with it, so that description matches every shwarma I've encountered but there might well be variations out there. I actually only ate it for the first time last month; I'd never ordered it in a restaurant before going kosher (and we have no kosher shwarma-producers here now), and I've never encountered a recipe that grabbed my attention long enough to make me investigate.

[magid.livejournal.com]

The felafel places I've been that also make shwarma first have the turkey (sometimes other meat? I mean, turkey's a new world bird, so at some point this was likely done with beef or lamb or something else) layered on a big vertical spit that rotates around in a 180-degree vertical heating element surrounding it. Then the outer crispy bits are sheared off (a sharp knife and something with a handle that looks a bit like an old-fashioned dust pan to catch the pieces), sauteed a bit, then put in a pita with diced vegetables and such just like felafel.

Yummy.

I haven't tried the frozen kind yet. Oh, and I think I saw something called "shwarma spice" at the local kosher market; maybe I should try to make some myself.

vertical skewer

[magid.livejournal.com]

Looking something like this (http://www.ida.net/users/rdk/ces/Lesson12/market_shwarma.JPG).

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

Where do you buy frozen schwarma? What's the brand? This is something I *must* look out for! Sounds like a mighty tasty meal (mouth waters)

[cellio]

Kosher Mart. The brand -- or at least the only name-like text on the package -- is "Shor Bahor", which is otherwise meaningless to me.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, "shor" is an ox...

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm! Sounds yummy. It also reminds me of a quote from one of our friends down here (Isabella Benalcazar in the SCA) a while back. When asked what her favorite foods were, she responded: "sister_devora's Refrigerator Surprise and montuos's Refrigerator Surprise." Let's hear it for improvisation!

[cellio]

I like "refrigerator surprise". I'll have to remember that for the next relevant time that Dani asks me what's for dinner. :-) (Actually, usually he doesn't ask and just eats what I put in front of him...)