🇹🇷 Turkish

Chicken Imam Bayildi

Name: Chicken Imam Bayildi
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 500 g Chicken; to taste Salt; 2, halved and sliced Onion; 4 Tomato; 4 cloves, crushed Garlic; 2 tbsp Olive Oil; 2 Bay Leaf; 1 handful Fresh Parsley; 500 ml Stock or Broth; 1 tsp Urfa Pepper Flakes

🇹🇷 Turkish

'The Imam fainted' — chicken braised in prodigious olive oil, onions and tomato. 70 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 55 min Serves 4 Hard

Ingredients

Chicken500 g
Saltto taste
Onion2, halved and sliced
Tomato4
Garlic4 cloves, crushed
Olive Oil2 tbsp
Bay Leaf2
Fresh Parsley1 handful
Stock or Broth500 ml
Urfa Pepper Flakes1 tsp

Instructions

1
Brown the chicken deeply in the Olive Oil in a heavy pot — patience here pays off later.
2
Remove it, then let the onion and garlic soften in the drippings with the urfa pepper flakes.
3
Return the chicken, add the stock and bay leaves, and bring to the gentlest simmer.
4
Cover and braise low and slow until the chicken yields to a spoon, about 45 minutes.
5
Skim the fat, reduce the sauce to a glaze, and serve with something starchy to catch every drop.

Chef's tip

Skim the fat from the surface before the final reduction for a cleaner sauce.

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