Food of the gods: Sharkaseya, aka Circassian walnut chicken
Ingredients
Broth
- 1 whole chicken OR 7-8 cleaned chicken breasts
- 3 cloves crushed garlic
- 1 onion peeled and quartered
- 1 cinnamon stick
- Handful salt & whole pepper
- water
Sauce
- 300g (2.5 cups) shelled walnuts
- 40g (1/3 cup) flour
- 4.5g (2 tsp) ground allspice
- broth from chicken
Instructions
Broth
- Add chicken, garlic, onion, salt, pepper, and cinnamon stick to pot.
- Add enough water to cover chicken (or chicken breasts).
- Leave to cook for about 60 minutes, or until the chicken or chicken breasts are fully cooked and broth is flavourful.
Sauce
- While chicken is cooking, ground allspice if you have whole grains.
- Grab a small frying pan and add flour on medium-high heat. Keep the pan dry, so no fat.
- Keep stirring flour to avoid from burning.
- Once flour starts to change colour, add ground allspice.
- Continue to keep stirring until spice mixture changes colour to a light brown.
- Take off heat and set aside.
- In a food processor or large bowl, add flour/allspice mixture.
- Add walnuts.
- Add one cup of broth to begin with.
- Purée mixture until it is fully blended and has a creamy texture.
- Keep adding small amounts of broth until you get the texture of a creamy sauce.
- Once sauce is done, set aside.
Assemblage
- Take off all of the meat from the chicken, taking sure to avoid any bones or cartilage. Or if using chicken breasts, pull the meat.
- In a large serving bowl, add all the chicken meat.
- Add sauce on top of chicken and mix.
- Serve chicken and sauce with rice and some cooked greens or salad.
