| In , most shawarma is made with dark meat and is commonly served with tahini sauce because serving sauce with meat would violate the Jewish of not eating together | Kraig, Bruce; Sen, Colleen Taylor 2013 |
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| It is often garnished with diced tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions, pickled vegetables, hummus, sauce or mango sauce |
| Shawarma in , 1950 Although the roasting of meat on horizontal spits has an ancient history, the shawarma technique—grilling a vertical stack of meat slices and cutting it off as it cooks—first appeared in the 19th-century , in what is now , in the form of | Bursa is the town that gave birth to the world-famous doner kebab, meat roasted on a vertical revolving spit |
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| [Doner fever even in Hoyerswerda] | Lamb fat may be added to provide extra fat for juiciness and flavor |
| A motorized spit slowly turns the stack of meat in front of a heating element, continuously roasting the outer layer | Thin slices are shaved off the cooked surface as it continuously rotates |
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| Shavings are cut off the rotating stack for serving, customarily with a long, sharp knife | Shawarma, in turn, led to the development during the early 20th century of the contemporary Mexican dish when it was brought there by |