Circassian Chicken

This is a dish attributed to the Circassians, a Turkic people originally from the area of Russia to the east of the Black Sea, who had or have communities in a couple of Russian republics as well as in Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. They converted wholesale to Islam in the seventeenth century. This rich and elegant preparation is made by the Turks and the Armenians and is called çerkez tavuĝu (Circassian chicken) in Turkish.