Everyone should know - Homemade Shawarma, Hummus & Toum Recipes| Easy meal prep and lunch box Ideas!

🥙 Healthy Chicken Shawarma Wrap & Bowl | Creamy Hummus | Authentic Toum | Easy Meal Prep & Lunch Box Ideas | Healthy Eating! If you've ever wanted to recreate authentic Middle Eastern flavors at home, this video is for you! After living in Dubai for 13 wonderful years, Arabic food became our family favourite. Today I'm sharing our favorite homemade recipes that are perfect for meal prep, healthy lunches, weeknight dinners, entertaining guests, or simply enjoying restaurant-quality food at home. In this video you'll learn how to make: ✨ Creamy Homemade Hummus ✨ Authentic Lebanese Toum (Garlic Sauce) ✨ Homemade Shawarma Spice Mix ✨ Juicy Chicken Shawarma ✨ Crispy Air Fryer Pita Chips ✨ Roasted Baby Potatoes ✨ Shawarma Wraps & Healthy Shawarma Bowls ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥣 Creamy Hummus Ingredients 🧆 1½ cups cooked or canned chickpeas (drained) 🥄 ¼ cup tahini 🍋 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice 🧄 2 garlic cloves 🫒 2 tbsp olive oil 🧂 ¾ tsp salt 🧊 3–5 tbsp ice-cold water Garnish • Extra virgin olive oil • Paprika or smoked paprika - optional • Chopped parsley - optional • Whole chickpeas - optional 💡 Tip: If cooking dried chickpeas, gently rub off the skins before blending for ultra-creamy hummus. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧄 Lebanese Toum Ingredients 🧄 Slightly less than 1 cup peeled garlic cloves (stem removed) 🧂 1 tsp salt 🫒 3 cups sunflower or canola oil 🍋 ¼ cup fresh lemon juice 💡 Tip: Slowly alternate adding the oil and lemon juice while blending. If the sauce splits, simply add 2 tbsp ice-cold water and continue blending. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌯 Homemade Shawarma Spice • 2 tsp ground cumin • 2 tsp ground coriander • 2 tsp paprika • 1 tsp turmeric - optional but healthy to add • 1 tsp garlic powder • 1 tsp onion powder • 1 tsp black pepper • ½ tsp cinnamon • ½ tsp cloves • 1 tsp salt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍗 Chicken Shawarma 500 g chicken thighs (or breast) 2 tbsp shawarma seasoning 3 tbsp yogurt 2 tbsp olive oil Juice of ½ lemon 3 garlic cloves, minced Marinate overnight (or at least 2 hours). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥔 Roasted Baby Potatoes 250 g baby potatoes 3 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp oregano 1 tsp salt Bake at 425°F (220°C) for approximately 25 minutes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🫓 Air Fryer Pita Chips 1 pita bread 2 tbsp olive oil ½ tsp paprika or za'atar Air fry at 325°F (160°C) for 1½–2 minutes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ Thank you so much for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE. It truly helps my channel grow and allows me to continue creating intentional recipes and homemaking content for you. #shawarma #mealprep #healthyrecipes #middleeasternfood #hummus #toum #easyrecipes #highprotein #familymeals #simplyintentional