Gayna kon Manzana

Chicken with Apples and Apricots

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Sephardic Flavors: Jewish Cooking of the Mediterranean

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