Circassian chicken (
Adyghe: ''Jed de ships sch'etu'') is a dish of shredded
boiled chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...
served under or in a rich paste made with crushed
walnuts, and stock thickened with
stale bread. Circassian Chicken is a classic
Circassian dish, adopted by the Imperial
Ottoman cuisine. Although it was typically served as a main course, it became popular as an appetizer, or
meze. Being an Imperial-era dish, it can also be found in other cuisines of the Eastern Mediterranean.
A similar walnut sauce and a chicken dish made with this sauce is known as
satsivi in
Georgian cuisine.
See also
*
List of chicken dishes
References
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Circassian cuisine
Chicken dishes
Walnut dishes
Ottoman cuisine
Meze