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Chicken Chigirtma
Also known as: Toyuq çığırtması
Azerbaijani chicken braised with onions and tomatoes, then covered with softly set egg.
About Chicken Chigirtma
Chicken Chigirtma, or Toyuq Chighirtmasi, is an Azerbaijani chicken dish finished with beaten egg. This profile follows Feride Buyuran's tomato-and-onion family version, which she distinguishes from regional versions that boil the chicken or add lemon.
Browned chicken, butter and onion give the dish a savoury, rounded base, while ripe tomato cooks down into a mellow sauce. Black pepper adds gentle warmth and cilantro brings a fresh herbal finish.
Chicken pieces sit in a soft red tomato-and-onion sauce beneath a thin layer of set golden egg. The meat is tender and the egg is softly firm rather than scrambled into separate curds.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chicken Chigirtma
Feride Buyuran's Toyuq Chighirtmasi.
- Vegetable oilBrowning medium
- ButterRich browning fat
- OnionSweet savoury aromatic
- ChickenTender poultry base
- SaltSeasoning
- Ground black pepperPeppery seasoning
- Ripe tomatoesSoft sauce base
- EggsSoftly set finish
- Fresh cilantroOptional fresh garnish · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Vegetable oil: . The source names generic vegetable oil without identifying its plant source
- Butter:
- Onion:
- Chicken:
- Salt:
- Ground black pepper:
- Ripe tomatoes:
- Eggs:
- Fresh cilantro (optional): . The Azerbaijani-language version specifies cilantro to taste; the English version offers cilantro or parsley, so cilantro is retained as the selected optional garnish
Origins & food traditions
Azerbaijani cookbook author Feride Buyuran identifies Toyuq Chighirtmasi as a classic and popular Azerbaijani dish, supplies this complete tomato-and-onion family formula, and explains that chigirtma dishes are united by egg added at the end. A Ministry-cited culinary summary independently corroborates chicken, onion, egg and cooking fat as the chicken form's defining structure.
Countries
- Azerbaijan
- AzerbaijanCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Azerbaijani Cuisine
- Azerbaijani CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.