🍮 Tavuk göğsü (chicken breast pudding)

Name: Tavuk göğsü (chicken breast pudding)
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Turkey · Istanbul
Ingredients: 1 small chicken breast (about 150 g); 1 l milk; 150 g sugar; 60 g cornstarch; Ground cinnamon to serve

Origin: Turkey · Istanbul

195kcal

per serving · 150 g

130kcal

per 100 g

6 gProtein4.1 g / 100 g

4 gFat2.5 g / 100 g

34 gCarbs22.9 g / 100 g

Tavuk göğsü is one of the most surprising Turkish desserts: a smooth, stretchy milk pudding thickened with cornstarch and finely shredded chicken breast. The chicken has no savoury taste in the finished dish — it simply gives the pudding its unique chewy, elastic texture. It is served chilled in squares, dusted with cinnamon.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

Not vegetarianbecause of: chicken breast

Not veganbecause of: milk, chicken breast

Contains dairybecause of: milk

Not keto22.9 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Milk

What it is made of

milkchicken breastsugarcornstarchcinnamon

Recipe

6 servings60 min

Ingredients

1 small chicken breast (about 150 g)
1 l milk
150 g sugar
60 g cornstarch
Ground cinnamon to serve

Method

Poach the chicken breast in water until cooked, then rinse and pull into very fine threads, rubbing them apart.
Whisk the cornstarch with some cold milk, then heat with the rest of the milk and sugar, stirring constantly.
Add the chicken threads and keep stirring for 15–20 minutes until very thick and elastic.
Pour into a wet dish, cool and chill for several hours.
Cut into squares and dust with cinnamon.

How to make it lighter

Reduce the sugar by a quarter; cinnamon keeps the flavour rounded.
Use semi-skimmed milk for a lighter pudding.
Cut smaller squares — a dessert portion does not need to be large.

History

The dessert is often linked to medieval 'blancmange'-type dishes of milk, sugar and chicken, and it is associated with Ottoman palace cuisine. Today it is sold mainly in Turkish muhallebi shops, especially in Istanbul.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →