Chicken Shawarma is so intensely flavorful you will find yourself making Chicken Shawarma and only Chicken Shawarma.  It immerses your taste buds in the four essential elements of cooking: salt, fat, acid, and heat combined with exotic Middle Eastern spices. There are a lot of spices going on in this Chicken Shawarma recipe to create its signature well-rounded profile, but the most dominant ones include: - Cumin:  warm, earthy, nutty, with a hint of both sweet and bitter  - Coriander: earthy, tart, and sweet - Cardamom:  minty, citrusy, herbal and spicy  - Smoked paprika: rich, mild, sweet, and smoky made from smoked pimento peppers dried over oak fires - Cinnamon and cloves or allspice:  strong, spicy, warm and sweetly pungent with peppery overtones and hints of juniper and peppercorns The Chicken Shawarma recipe is further rounded out by lemon juice and balsamic for essential acid, cayenne pepper for heat as well as salt, garlic powder and onion powder.