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.

Diets

GLUTEN FREE

Ingredients

carrot

1

cucumber

1

garlic

3 small pieces

pickled cucumbers / gherkins

2 large

jalapeno peppers

2 large

juice of lemon

1

lebanese cucumber

1 small

lemon juice

4 servings

i gem lettuce

1 large head

olive oil

1 cup

parsley

1 Handful

cabbage

0.25

onion

1 small

roast chicken

1

salt & pepper

4 servings

tomatoes

2

yoghurt

250 ml

Cooking in Steps

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

yogurt

salt

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

olive oil

peppers

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

red onion

cucumber

parsley

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

salt and pepper

juice

lemon

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

juice
6
Tear the lettuce into mouth-siazed peices.

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

red cabbage

carrot
8
Mix together in a bowl.

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

whole chicken
10
Remove the tomato salsa from the fridge.

tomato

salsa
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

whole chicken

parsley

tomato

juice

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

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

vinaigrette

peppers

chili pepper

salsa