Name: Gayna kon Manzana
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 1 roasting chicken, 4 to 5 pounds, cut into serving pieces, or 8 chicken pieces; 1 cinnamon stick; 3 cups dry white wine, or as needed; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 tablespoon honey; salt; ½ pound dried apricots; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; ½ teaspoon ground mace; 3 pounds tart green apples such as granny smith or pippin, peeled, cored, and quartered; ¼ cup olive oil; ¼ cup sesame seeds, toasted; 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice; 3 onions, chopped; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sephardic Flavors

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2000

About

La table juive calls this Turkish recipe “chicken with apples, ” but the apricots are an integral part of the dish and an important flavoring for the sauce; thus I have included them in the English title. Although the original recipe calls for marinating the chicken and dried fruits in the same bowl, I think it is better to soak the fruits separately. They don’t need much time to soften, but you might want the chicken to marinate longer, even as long as overnight, to pick up the flav