Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce
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
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
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1First 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 -
2Put a griddle pan on medium high heat, cover the peppers with olive oil and start to char.
olive oil
peppers
frying pan -
3Cut 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
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4Place 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 -
5Let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes 1 hour, stirring a couple times, so it starts to exude juice.
juice
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6Tear the lettuce into mouth-siazed peices.
lettuce
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7Cut the red cabbage into thin slices. Grate the carrot.
red cabbage
carrot
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8Mix together in a bowl.
bowl -
9Tear the chicken into large pieces and add to the salad.
whole chicken
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10Remove the tomato salsa from the fridge.
tomato
salsa
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11Drain 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
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12Lay out the salad on a large plate or chopping board.
cutting board -
13Serve with the charred peppers, cacik, salsa vinaigrette and some chilli sauce.
vinaigrette
peppers
chili pepper
salsa