Chicken fatteh | Recipe | A kitchen in Istanbul

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 dried chillies
• 4 cloves
• 4 pods cardamom (lightly crushed)
• water
• 3 Tbsp olive oil (I use a mild extra virgin)
• 1 large onion (peeled and finely chopped)
• salt and pepper
• 2 Tbsp olive oil (I use a mild extra virgin)
• 2 pita breads (or other white (flat)bread, torn into pieces)
• 6 Tbsp butter
• 40 g pine nuts
• 2 tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper) (Aleppo pepper, or other chilli flakes, to taste)
• 1 kg Greek yoghurt
• 100 g tahini
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 cloves of garlic (crushed into a paste)
• seeds from 1 pomegranate
• chopped flat leaf parsley (Italian parsley) (to taste)