Making homemade shawarma spice blend is easy and cheap

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Homemade shawarma spice blend Vegan

Name: Making homemade shawarma spice blend is easy and cheap
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: world
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; Half a teaspoon pepper; Half a teaspoon ground cumin seeds; Half a teaspoon ground coriander seeds; Half a teaspoon paprika powder; Half a teaspoon ginger powder; Half a teaspoon cayenne pepper; Half a teaspoon ground cinnamon; Half a teaspoon garlic powder; 1 teaspoon oregano

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Making homemade shawarma spice blend is super easy, you don't even need a mortar! This delicious spice mix can be used for a shawarma sandwich or chicken shawarma.

5 minutes

4 persons

Vegetarian recipes

Vegan recipes

Spice mixes

Nutrition balance score

Great

9.1/10

Glycemic Index

Glycemic Load

5.44 (Low)

0.08 (Low)

Nutrition per serving

Kcal

10.41 kcal

Carbohydrates
Of which sugars

1.50 g
0.04 g

Total fat
Of which saturated fats

0.32 g
0.05 g

Proteins

0.38 g

Fiber

0.61 g

Sodium

601.54 mg

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With this shawarma spice mix, you can season about 600 grams of meat. Need more? Just multiply the recipe as you like.

Homemade shawarma spice blend ingredients

Recipe homemade shawarma spice blend

Made by Véronique

Published at 2025-08-24, this recipe is for 4 persons and takes 5 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 2025-09-19

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Preparation time

5 minutes

Time cooking

0 minutes

Total time

5 minutes

Usually, you buy shawarma ready-made in the supermarket. But did you know that it's actually just strips of pork in a spice mix?

You can make this spice mix yourself, without additives, just pure spices.

This spice mix is enough to marinate 600 grams of pork. Use these spices to make a delicious shawarma sandwich.

The spices for this mix are all already ground, so you don't even need a mortar for this.

Mix all the spices in a small bowl, and your spice mix is ready. Store it in a well-sealed jar, like a small preserving jar.

Enjoy this delicious spice mix!

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Nutritional values

Per 1 serving / piece:

Pay attention! These indicated nutritional values are based on standard tables and are therefore an estimated total. No rights can be derived from the data in the nutritional value table.

General

Kcal

10.41 kcal

Carbohydrates
Of which sugars

1.50 g
0.04 g

Total fat
Of which saturated fats

0.32 g
0.05 g

Proteins

0.38 g

Fiber

0.61 g

Sodium

601.54 mg

Show vitamines & minerals

Minerals

Iron

0.53 mg

Calcium

16.53 mg

Magnesium

6.52 mg

Potassium

6.52 mg

Phosphorus

6.73 mg

Copper

0.01 mg

Zinc

0.05 mg

Iodine

0.00 µg

Selenium

0.08 µg

Vitamins

Vitamine C

0.88 mg

Vitamine D

0.00 mg

Vitamine A

0.04 mg

Vitamine B1

0.01 mg

Vitamine B2

0.01 mg

Vitamine B6

0.01 mg

Vitamine B12

0.00 µg

Folic acid

0.08 µg

Vitamine E

0.01 mg

Vitamine K

1.46 µg

Vitamine K1

0.00 µg

Handy! Scroll this table horizontally to see all nutritional values per ingredient

Amount		Ingredient	Kcal	Carbs	Carbs of which sugars	Fat	Fat of which saturated	Protein	Fibers	Sodium	Iron	Calcium	Magnesium	Potassium	Phosphorus	Copper	Zinc	Iodine	Selenium	Vitamin C	Vitamin D	Vitamin A	Vitamin B1	Vitamin B2	Vitamin B6	Vitamin B12	Vitamin B11	Vitamin E	Vitamin K	Vitamin K1
0.25	teaspoon	salt	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	600.00 mg	-	0.15 mg	4.35 mg	0.08 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.13	teaspoon	pepper	0.77	0.13 g	-	0.01 g	-	0.03 g	0.05 g	0.10 mg	0.07 mg	1.00 mg	-	3.25 mg	0.45 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.13	teaspoon	ground cumin seeds	1.59	0.13 g	-	0.08 g	0.01 g	0.07 g	0.04 g	0.64 mg	-	3.38 mg	-	6.75 mg	0.24 mg	-	-	-	-	0.03 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.13	teaspoon	ground coriander seeds	1.12	0.20 g	-	0.07 g	0.01 g	0.05 g	0.16 g	0.13 mg	0.06 mg	2.66 mg	1.24 mg	4.75 mg	1.12 mg	0.01 mg	0.02 mg	-	-	0.08 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.04 µg	0.01 mg	1.16 µg	-
0.13	teaspoon	paprika powder	1.32	0.13 g	-	0.05 g	0.01 g	0.06 g	0.08 g	0.11 mg	0.09 mg	0.67 mg	-	9.00 mg	1.31 mg	-	-	-	-	0.26 mg	-	-	-	0.01 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.13	teaspoon	ginger powder	1.26	0.27 g	0.01 g	0.02 g	-	0.03 g	0.05 g	0.08 mg	0.04 mg	0.43 mg	0.69 mg	4.95 mg	0.63 mg	-	0.01 mg	-	0.02 µg	0.02 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.04 µg	-	-	-
0.13	teaspoon	cayenne pepper	1.39	0.11 g	-	0.06 g	0.02 g	0.04 g	0.10 g	0.11 mg	0.03 mg	0.56 mg	-	7.88 mg	1.09 mg	-	0.01 mg	-	-	0.30 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.30 µg	-
0.13	teaspoon	ground cinnamon	0.79	0.14 g	-	0.01 g	-	0.01 g	0.06 g	0.08 mg	0.10 mg	3.00 mg	0.15 mg	1.25 mg	0.15 mg	-	-	-	-	0.08 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.13	teaspoon	garlic powder	1.24	0.27 g	0.02 g	-	-	0.06 g	0.04 g	0.24 mg	0.01 mg	0.68 mg	0.09 mg	4.47 mg	1.23 mg	-	-	-	0.05 µg	0.12 mg	-	0.03 mg	-	-	0.01 mg	-	-	-	-	-
0.25	teaspoon	oregano	0.93	0.13 g	-	0.03 g	0.01 g	0.03 g	0.04 g	0.05 mg	0.13 mg	4.00 mg	-	4.00 mg	0.50 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
			10.41	1.50 g	0.04 g	0.32 g	0.05 g	0.38 g	0.61 g	601.54 mg	0.53 mg	16.53 mg	6.52 mg	46.38 mg	6.73 mg	0.01 mg	0.05 mg	-	0.08 µg	0.88 mg	-	0.04 mg	0.01 mg	0.01 mg	0.01 mg	-	0.08 µg	0.01 mg	1.46 µg	-