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Home Easy Mexican With Cooked Chicken

Cerkez Tavugu -circassian Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Simmer chicken and 1 onion water for 35 minutes or until tender; drain. Reserve broth. Bone chicken. Remove skin.
  • Cut or tear into 5-6 cm (1-1 ½ inch) long and 1-1 ½ cm (1/4-1/2 inch) thick strips.
  • Arrange leaves and pita bread around the side of the dish/platter.
  • Then arrange the chicken into the center of the serving dish or large platter just to the edges of the pita and romaine.
  • Set aside.
  • Combine walnuts, bread slices (soaked in reserved chicken broth and squeezed dry) garlic; chopped crisp shallots, mix well.
  • Place into blender or a food processor container. Process until well blended.
  • Add salt, black pepper and chicken broth gradually blending thoroughly until it gets medium white sauce consistency.
  • Pour over chicken.
  • Heat oil. Stir in red pepper.
  • Remove from heat.
  • Sprinkle over walnut sauce.
  • To make the red-tinted oil: Gently reheat the cooked chicken in a 350° F oven until warm. Heat the walnut oil in a very small saucepan, add the Near East pepper, and swirl to combine; heat just to a sizzle. Remove from the heat and allow the pepper to settle. Dribble the red-tinted oil over the surface of the dish, making decorative swirls.
  • Garnish with a little chopped parsley
  • Serve at room temperature
  • Cerkez Chicken (Circassian Chicken) is a favourite mezze o ours. It is served with pita bread triangles and small romaine or endive leaves
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    " It was excellent "
    rhianna ate it and said...
    Delicious! I highly recommend this. The walnut sauce & the red chile-tinted oil take this dish into the realm of the exotic. I made this marvelous dish twice: at first with leftover chicken, then with chicken breasts boiled in water with onion. Either way is nice. I followed the recipe exactly, except I had to substitute for the Aleppo pepper: once with N.M. red chile powder, & then with the Peruvian red pepper paste "Rocoto". Both were tasty, but only the powder actually tinted the oil red. The first time I poured the excellent creamy walnut sauce over the minced chicken. The next time I mixed the chicken with the sauce before slightly warming it in the toaster oven. I served the plates with all components separated, as suggested. When I ate mine, I first stuffed the pita pocket triangle with a little bit of everything. Excellent meal! ~~~~ I actually made fresh pita bread with Kutadkubilik's own Pita recipe ~ another excellent recipe! When the bread was fresh, we ate it fresh with the Circassian Chicken meal. Later I tried the pita as directed: brushed with olive oil & then pan-fried. Once I even heated up a buttered flour tortilla to try it that way. Every way I had this chicken dish was great.
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    " It was excellent "
    rhianna ate it and said...
    Oh my goodness ~ here is another of your great recipes which I will try very soon! What other peppers can one substitute for the Near East or Aleppo pepper? UPDATE: Kutadkubilik answered that: Any red pepper powder can be substituted, such as red chile powder from the Southwest of USA; cayenne; paprika.
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