Kazan Dibi (Caramelized Turkish Cream)

evelyn/athens's Note:

I love Kazan Dibi and never fail to order it when I go to my favourite Anatolian Restaurant. A 'kazani' is an iron pan, and I guess 'dibi' is pudding or cream? Who knows? Anyway, the pudding is 'singed' (caramelized) on one side and is totally delicious - and yes, that IS chicken breast in the list of ingredients. Interesting, yes?

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 ¼ cups heavy cream
• 3 ½ cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 boneless skinless chicken breast
• 5 tablespoons rice flour or 5 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon butter

Directions:

1. Place the chicken in a saucepan filled with water and allow it to come to the boil. Reduce the temperature and let it simmer until the chicken is fully cooked, approximately 20 minutes. Remove the chicken from the saucepan, cool, pat dry and shred into very, very fine shreds. Mix the rice flour or corn starch with some milk. Add the cream, sugar and the rest of the milk to a pot and boil.
2. Once the mixture reaches boiling, add a few spoonfuls of it to the rice flour slurry, to temper it, and then slowly empty the slurry into the pot and add the extract. Whisk the mixture constantly. As soon as it starts to thicken, add the shredded chicken and continue stirring until it is thick and set.
3. Melt the butter in a heavy skillet and pour the pudding inches Cook, over medium-low heat, without stirring for 8-10 minutes, until it is caramelized (singed) underneath.
4. Allow the Kazan Dipi to cool in the skillet and serve from there. To serve - cut into pieces and 'flip' a piece onto a plate - the singed part should be on top.
5. Delicious served with either Whipped Cream or Ice Cream. (plain is good, too).

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Just to clarify the meaning of kazan dibi... kazan is a large iron (or it can be many other metals, such as copper) pan and dibi means "the bottom of." The caramelization happens at the bottom of the pan, thus the name.