What if I make a dinner with the classic Thanksgiving ingredients adding Turkish tastes? Stuffed turkey, apple pie, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, and stuffings are all traditional dishes. With all these fall season fruit and veggies possibilities are endless to make different tastes.
I watched other cooking channels like @NYTCooking and @FoodNetwork and they are sharing new recipe ideas as well as classics. So I prepared a menu inspired by Thanksgiving: Instead of stuffed turkey, I am making an Ottoman cuisine dish "Piliç Topkapı" stuffed chicken thigh. We don't have cranberries much in Turkiye but have lots of sour cherries. And another famous Ottoman dessert of ours is "ekmek kadayıfı" that are still widely available. So using similar ingredients you can have where you live I am making "Vişneli ekmek tatlısı" Bread pudding with sour cherries.
Finally finish the menu with arugula, beetroot salad with crumbled cheese and a quick potato puré.

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Give your ideas and comments on what you think about my menu, which recipe would you try first, or maybe all of them together? :)
Ingredients For Piliç Topkapı:
6-10 pieces of boneless chicken leg with skin (The filling is enough for more then 10 chicken, you can get as much as chicken as you want to serve and eat the rest of the pilav filling as a pilaf)
salt, pepper, olive oil to season
For the filling:
1+1/2 cup long grain rice sokaed in 1 tbsp salt and enough warm water to cover for 30-45 minutes
2 tbsp butter, 2-3 tbsp olive oil
2-3 tbsp pinenuts (or try slivered almonds or skip)
2 medium size onion
2 tsp dried mint
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp each all-spice, black pepper, cinnamon
2+1/4 cup hot water
handful of chopped parsley and dill
1/4 cup water (for the baking dish)
To brush the chicken skins:
1 heaped tsp tomato paste
1 tbsp olive oil
2-3 tbsp water

Ingredients For Arugula Beetroot Salad
1 bunch of arugula
3-4 beetroot cooked with skin until soft
about 50gr. or more Turkish white cheese (preferably aged) or feta
For the dressing:
juice of a lemon
1/4 tsp or more salt
about a tbsp pomegranate syrup
about a tbsp olive oil
clove of garlic (crushed)

Ingredients For Cherry Bread Pudding:
1 package ready toasted bread (unsalted) as seen in the video
250 gr. frozen of fresh cherries (if not pitted, pit after cooked)
2+1/2 cup water
1 to 1+1/4 cup sugar
For the pudding:
1 egg yolk
6 tbsp sugar
1 heaped tbsp corn starch
2+1/2 heaped tbsp flour
1 liter milk
3-4 pieces mastic gum (optional)
vanilla powder or essence
Also whipped cream or cream shantili powder whipped with cold milk as directed on the package

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