Chicken with Turkish Walnut Sauce

Name: Chicken with Turkish Walnut Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 45 min
Total time: 4 h 5 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 1 carrot, thinly sliced; 1 celery stick, thinly sliced; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 onions, 1 halved and 1 thinly sliced; 1 handful of coriander, with crushed stalks; 1 oven-ready chicken, about 1.5 kg/3 lb 5 oz, any fat in the cavity removed; 2 bay leaves; salad, to serve; 100 g/3½ oz/1 cup walnut halves; pomegranate seeds, to serve; chopped dill sprigs, shredded coriander leaves or chopped parsley leaves, to serve; freshly ground black pepper; ½ tsp salt; a pinch of sweet paprika, or to taste; 125 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup single cream; 55 g/2 oz day-old bread, crusts removed and torn into pieces

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
4 hr 30

Appears in

I Love My Slow Cooker

By Beverly LeBlanc

Published 2012

About

Ingredients

2 onions, 1 halved and 1 thinly sliced
1 handful of coriander,

Asia
Turkey
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Put an upturned heatproof saucer in the slow cooker. (Check that the chicken will be able to sit on top of the saucer with the cooker lid in place.) Preheat the covered cooker on HIGH.

Put the halved onion and coriander in the chicken’s cavity and season with salt and pepper. Secure the opening with wooden cocktail sticks. Put the chicken in the cooker, breast-side down, then push in th