The food is made by alternately stacking strips of fat and pieces of seasoned meat whether its lamb, beef or marinated chicken, is sliced razor-thin, layered into freshly baked pita bread, and topped with onions, tahini sauce, lettuce and tomato. These are ingredients that make up the Mediterranean cuisine, shawarma.
The meat is roasted slowly on all sods as the spit rotates in front of, or over a flame for hours.
Tahini sauce is made from ground sesame seeds is also can be added to many popular dishes, such as a fish and falafel.
Shawarma is eaten as a fast food made up into a sandwich wrap with pita bread or rolled up in an Armenian Lavash flatbread together with vegetables and dressing.
Shawarma: Middle Eastern Arabic-style sandwich
