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This walnut chicken, associated with the heritage of Caucasian migration, has become one of the delicacies of the meze table in Turkey.
The sauce should have a creamy consistency that clings to the chicken, rather than being a runny soup.
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Taste: spice
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Haydari is made with strained yogurt. If it weeps water on the plate, the yogurt was not strained.
How to order
On a meze table balance beats variety: one yogurt-based, one olive-oil, one sharp is enough.
From 19th-century migrations to today
Circassian chicken is the form, widespread in Türkiye, of a walnut-and-chicken tradition associated with Caucasian migration heritage. It is not the unchanged transmission of one community's recipe but an example of migrant cooking entering the city table; the body of the walnut sauce is the measure of skill.
Source note: göç mutfağı bağlamı; topluluk varyantları ayrıca belgelenmeli
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Venues serving this cuisine, distinguished in the Michelin Guide 2026 selection. An external distinction; not a GustoScore assessment. Full selection