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Say hello to the bacon, egg, and cheese of Detroit! In this video, Chef Roscoe shows you how to make Detroit shawarma, a bite of soulful comfort food all wrapped up in tinfoil. This chicken shawarma sandwich combines pickled turnips, dill pickles, and French fries before crusting up with a red pepper sauce, giving it that signature bright color. Which regional sandwich should Roscoe make next?
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00:00This is the bacon, egg, and cheese of Detroit.
00:01One chicken shawarma coming up.
00:03Garlic sauce, mixed leather, french fries.
00:05After that, some dill pick, some pickled turnip,
00:07chicken shawarma, red pepper sauce.
00:09Close it up.
00:10Now watch what happens.
00:11The glaze is a beautiful mix of red pepper paste
00:14and tomato paste.
00:16It's just to add some acidity to the bread.
00:18It gives it a beautiful color.
00:19First time I ever saw this beautiful sandwich
00:21that I'm making right now was a farmer's market in Detroit.
00:25I was hungry, had a little bit too much to drink.
00:27It cured my hangover.
00:28I ate two of them.
00:29First one just like enamored by the flavor profile.
00:32And then the second one I ate was just for fun.
00:34This is one of those sandwiches where you don't even look
00:37at the people around you.
00:39You just focus on not messing up your shirt
00:41and you focus on the sandwich, okay?
00:43Oh man.
00:44Oh!
00:46You better prove yourself.
00:48Shout out to the good people in Detroit making this shawarma
00:50and the good people who support them.
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