Circassian Chicken Recipe

Circassian Chicken

This classic recipe, which has come down to us from the old Circassian Turks, is a wonderful taste that you can serve as a hot starter or cold appetizer at your dinner table. Be sure to have a large stone pestle at hand to match the original. It will be worth your effort. Bon Appetit!

Ingredients:

For 4 people
🕐 Preparation: 30 min.      🕐 Cooking: 40 min.
For the Chicken:
Chicken Leg (Hipped) 2 Qty
Dry Onion 1 Qty
Lemon Juice 1 Tbsp
Bay Leaf 1 Qty
Grain Black Pepper 1/2 Tsp (large)
Water 5 Cup
For the Walnut Mortar:
Walnut 300 Grams
Garlic 3 Clove
Stale Bread (Intra) 4 Slice
Chicken Broth 1.5 Cup
Salt 1 Tsp
Cumin 1 Qty
For the Over:
Olive Oil 2 Tbsp
Powdered Red Pepper 1 Tsp
Butter 1 Tbsp

Instructions:

  1. Wash the chicken thighs and put them in the pressure cooker. Add 5 glasses of drinking water, an onion divided into 4, bay leaf, lemon juice, salt and black peppercorns and boil for 30 minutes on medium heat.
  2. In a large mortar, if possible, add 1 teaspoon of salt and beat the garlic thoroughly in a stone mortar. Add half of the walnuts and mash well until the oil comes out. Do not use Rondo, because it is these crushed and oiled walnuts that give the recipe its original taste.
  3. If you can pass the crushed walnuts through a fine mesh strainer and extract the oil, you can use it to make red oil for presentation.
  4. Remove the onion and bay leaves from the cooked chicken with a scoop. Clean the skin and bones of the chickens, which you have filtered and separated from the water, and shred them into thin long fibers.
  5. Add the stale breadcrumbs to the crushed walnuts in the mortar and add chicken broth little by little until the breads turn into a thick slurry and mash. Check the taste and flavor it with salt, pepper and cumin.
  6. Mix the shredded chicken and your walnut bread mortar in a deep bowl. Take some of the chickens to use on it, place it on a serving plate and smooth it with the back of the spoon.
  7. For the sauce, put the olive oil and butter in the sauce pan and heat them, add the powdered red pepper and froth lightly without burning. If you have extracted walnut oil, add it to this oil as well.
  8. Place the chicken pieces you have separated on the mixture you bought on the serving plate. Serve warm or cold, garnished with pepper oil, walnut pieces and parsley. Enjoy your meal!
  9. Note: If you are going to serve this recipe as an appetizer, you can also prepare it by adding strained yogurt and a tablespoon of mayonnaise to the walnut mortar and drizzle with cold olive oil during the presentation.

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