Turkish-style chicken with tomatoes is a bright and juicy dish that many will like. Find out a step-by-step recipe with a photo and be sure to cook a colorful and tasty chicken. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step-by-step cooking of chicken with tomatoes in Turkish
- Video recipe
Turkey is a country of temperamental and emotional people. Most likely, for this reason, their national cuisine is so bright and juicy. Almost all Turkish dishes are a real find for sophisticated gourmets. The Turkish chicken and tomato recipe is easy to prepare, requires a minimal and affordable set of ingredients. At the same time, the combination of poultry and vegetables gives an amazing result. The chicken comes out very juicy and tender, and the fleshy tomatoes soak the bird with their juice. Turkish housewives prepare this dish only with fresh tomatoes. However, in the European version, they can be replaced with tomato juice.
If you like to experiment in the kitchen, you can add other vegetables to the dish. For example, in Turkey they like to use eggplants, zucchini, green beans, red pepper. There is nothing complicated and tricky in the recipe, everything is refined and refined here. The main highlight of the dish is the use of Turkish spices and herbs. They can be found in sachets in the supermarket or by weight in the market. Aromatic spices help to complement and reveal the taste of the treat. And the step-by-step cooking stages are quite common for our kitchen and are familiar to every housewife.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 95 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken thighs - 2 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Cumin - 1 tsp
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Sumak - 1 tsp
- Saffron - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step cooking chicken with tomatoes in Turkish, recipe with photo:
1. Wash chicken thighs and cut into slices. Instead of thighs, you can use other parts of the bird: wings, drumsticks, legs or breasts. If you want to get a more dietary meal, then remove the skin from the bird. It contains the most harmful cholesterol.
2. Wash the tomatoes and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut them into 4-6 slices, depending on the original size of the fruit.
3. Pour a thin layer of vegetable oil into the pan and heat. Add the chicken and fry on both sides over moderate heat until golden brown.
4. When the chicken is sufficiently browned, add the chopped tomatoes to the skillet.
5. Season foods with salt, pepper, saffron, cumin and sumac. Other Turkish spices can be added. For example, red hot peppers, mint, paprika, cardamom, turmeric, ginger. Then add some drinking water and boil. Reduce heat to minimum, cover and simmer poultry for 45 minutes. Serve the cooked chicken with tomatoes in Turkish to the table on its own, sprinkling with sesame seeds, as they do in Turkey. Boil pasta or rice as a side dish, if desired.
See also the video recipe on how to cook chicken in Turkish sauce.
