Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce

Name: Turkish Chicken Salad with Home-made Cacik Yogurt Sauce
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 1 piece Carrot (1 carrot, grated); 4 pieces Cucumber (1 cucumber + 2 large pickled cucumbers / gherkins, sliced + 1 small lebanese cucumber (or 1/3 of a large one)); 3 pieces Garlic (3 small pieces garlic); 2 pieces Jalapeño Pepper (2 – 2 large Jalapeno peppers); 1 piece Lemon (Juice of 1 lemon); 0 pieces Lemon Juice (Lemon juice); 1 piece Lettuce (I large head green gem lettuce); 1 cup Olive Oil (1 cup olive oil); 1 handful Parsley (Handful chopped parsley); ¼ piece Red Cabbage (1/4 red cabbage, thinly sliced); 1 piece Red Onion (1 small red onion); 1 piece Cooked Chicken (1 whole roast chicken); 0 pieces Table Salt (Salt & pepper); 2 pieces Vine Ripened Tomato (2 tomatoes); 250 ml Yogurt (250ml plain Turkish or Greek-style yoghurt)

45 minMexican

Servings4

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Steps

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.
2Put a griddle pan on medium high heat, cover the peppers with olive oil and start to char.
3Cut the tomato and cucumber into medium pieces. Slice the red onion as thin as you can. Chop the parsley fine.
4Place all ingredients in a bowl and cover with a the juice of 1 lemon. Season with salt and pepper.
5Let it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes 1 hour, stirring a couple times, so it starts to exude juice.
6Tear the lettuce into mouth-siazed peices.
7Cut the red cabbage into thin slices. Grate the carrot.
8Mix together in a bowl.
9Tear the chicken into large pieces and add to the salad.
10Remove the tomato salsa from the fridge.
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.
12Lay out the salad on a large plate or chopping board.
13Serve with the charred peppers, cacik, salsa vinaigrette and some chilli sauce.