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Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce

45 min
4 servings
Health Score: 82/100
4.48 per serving
9 likes
Lunch Main Course Main Dish Dinner Gluten Free
Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1 handful of carrots (grated)
  • 1 cucumber
  • 3 cloves of clv garlic
  • 2 pickled gherkins thinly (sliced, large)
  • 2 jalapeno peppers (large)
  • 1 juice of lemon
  • 1 lebanese cucumber (or, small)
  • 4 servings juice of lemon
  • 1 leaf of the of 2 x little gem lettuce (green)
  • 1 cup olive oil plus
  • 1 bunch of parsley (chopped)
  • 1/4 purple cabbages (red, thinly sliced)
  • 1 onion thinly (red, small)
  • 1 roasted chicken (whole)
  • 4 servings kosher salt & pepper
  • 2 slices of from a tomato
  • 250 ml yoghurt (plain, turkish or greek-style)

About

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.

Nutrition (per serving)

643kcal
Calories
27g
Carbohydrates
30g
Fat
7g
Fiber
67g
Protein
16g
Sugar

Instructions

  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.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    Tear the lettuce into mouth-siazed peices.

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    Mix together in a bowl.

  9. 9

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

  10. 10

    Remove the tomato salsa from the fridge.

  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.

  12. 12

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

  13. 13

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

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Preparation Details

Total Time: 45 minutes

Servings: 4

Very Healthy

Dietary Information

Vegetarian: No

Vegan: No

Gluten Free: Yes

Dairy Free: No

Low FODMAP: No

Source: foodista.com

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