Ingredients:
- 1 pound of chicken (breasts are fine, but usually it's better on the bone)
- 1 cube of chicken stock
- 1/4 onion, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 loaf of day old french bread (leave it out to sit for a day so it gets dry)
- 2 handfuls of walnuts
- Walnut oil or olive oil (optional)
- Sweet pepper powder (optional)
Cheating the Chicken:
- In a large pot, boil enough water with the cube of chicken stock to fully cook the chicken
- Remove the chicken from the water and allow to cool
- Sautee the chopped onion
- In a food processor, chop the walnuts, onion and garlic
- Remove some of the broth from the water that was used to cook the chicken and in a separate bowl, pour the milk and enough stock to get the bread soggy
- Combine the bread into the walnut mixture in the food processor
- When the chicken has cooled, remove it from the bone and shred into small pieces
- Throw that all into the food processor (you may need to add a splash more of the broth and milk)
- Swish it all around
- Transfer to a serving tray
- (Optional) in a small shallow skillet, on low heat take about 1/4 cup of walnut oil and a teaspoon of sweet pepper powder and when the oil starts to turn reddish, drizzle over the cerkez tavugu
Afiyet olsun!
