Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce

Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce

  Ready in : 45 mins

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce a try. This recipe serves 4 and costs $4.48 per serving. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 643 calories, 67g of protein, and 30g of fat per serving. 9 people found this recipe to be tasty and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up lebanese cucumber, roast chicken, garlic, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It is brought to you by Foodista. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 95%. This score is outstanding. Similar recipes include Spicy Lamb Kabobs With Turkish Cacik, Jerk Rubbed Chicken Thighs with Home-Made Mango-Habanero Hot Sauce, and Yogurt and Cucumber Dip Cacik.

Ingredients

carrot

carrot

1

cucumber

cucumber

1

garlic

garlic

3 small pieces

pickled cucumbers / gherkins

pickled cucumbers / gherkins

2 large

jalapeno peppers

jalapeno peppers

2 large

juice of lemon

juice of lemon

1

lebanese cucumber

lebanese cucumber

1 small

lemon juice

lemon juice

4 servings

i gem lettuce

i gem lettuce

1 large head

olive oil

olive oil

1 cup

parsley

parsley

1 Handful

cabbage

cabbage

0.25

onion

onion

1 small

roast chicken

roast chicken

1

salt & pepper

salt & pepper

4 servings

tomatoes

tomatoes

2

yoghurt

yoghurt

250 ml

Cooking in Steps

  1. 1
    First prepare the Cacik: For the Cacik: Chop the cucumber into tiny pieces, as small as you can, and place in a bowl. Cover the cucumber with salt and set aside for 30 minutes. The cucumbers will start to exude their juices which will flavour the yogurt nicely.

    cucumber

    cucumber

    yogurt

    yogurt

    salt

    salt

    bowl
    bowl
  2. 2
    Put a griddle pan on medium high heat, cover the peppers with olive oil and start to char.

    olive oil

    olive oil

    peppers

    peppers

    frying pan
    frying pan
  3. 3
    Cut the tomato and cucumber into medium pieces. Slice the red onion as thin as you can. Chop the parsley fine.

    red onion

    red onion

    cucumber

    cucumber

    parsley

    parsley

    tomato

    tomato

  4. 4
    Place all ingredients in a bowl and cover with a the juice of 1 lemon. Season with salt and pepper.

    salt and pepper

    salt and pepper

    juice

    juice

    lemon

    lemon

    bowl
    bowl
  5. 5
    Let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes 1 hour, stirring a couple times, so it starts to exude juice.

    juice

    juice

  6. 6
    Tear the lettuce into mouth-siazed peices.

    lettuce

    lettuce

  7. 7
    Cut the red cabbage into thin slices. Grate the carrot.

    red cabbage

    red cabbage

    carrot

    carrot

  8. 8
    Mix together in a bowl.

    bowl
    bowl
  9. 9
    Tear the chicken into large pieces and add to the salad.

    whole chicken

    whole chicken

  10. 10
    Remove the tomato salsa from the fridge.

    tomato

    tomato

    salsa

    salsa

  11. 11
    Drain the juice and keep for later. Now add the tomato, cucumber, parsley onion mix to the chicken salad, as well as the sliced gherkin.

    cucumber

    cucumber

    whole chicken

    whole chicken

    parsley

    parsley

    tomato

    tomato

    juice

    juice

    onion

    onion

  12. 12
    Lay out the salad on a large plate or chopping board.

    cutting board
    cutting board
  13. 13
    Serve with the charred peppers, cacik, salsa vinaigrette and some chilli sauce.

    vinaigrette

    vinaigrette

    peppers

    peppers

    chili pepper

    chili pepper

    salsa

    salsa