2 chicken thighs
Mitsides Traditional Cyprus Macaroni (enough for two people)
1 lemon
grated “anari” cheese (if you don’t have “anari” cheese it will be hard to replicate this! I would probably replace it with hard halloumi if I had to, but it is really the “anari” that gives this dish its taste … in my opinion!)
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1. Boil about 4 to 6 cups of water on the stove (basically just over enough to cover the two chicken thighs) and add the two chicken thighs. Let the chicken thighs boil and cook until well done. I think I left mine for about 30 minutes, but you will need to cut open the chicken to check it has been properly cooked.
2. Once the chicken has cooked, remove it and place it in a bowl to let cool. Add the pasta to the chicken broth and salt to taste. Cook until the pasta is ready. Meanwhile, chop the cooked chicken into slices which you will serve with the pasta.
3. Serve the pasta with chicken slices (toss the chicken in with the hot pasta to ensure that the chicken is warm when it is eaten). Squeeze a quarter or half a lemon on each serving (depending on how lemon-y you want it) and add grated “anari” cheese to taste. I like A LOT of “anari”.
hi. are You sure You’re speaking from anari cheese?
i’m not long in Cyprus, but everytime i ask for anari, its look not so hard like at Your picture. its look more like quark
hi – yup. It comes in two forms – when it’s freshly made it’s soft. When it dries, it becomes hard. In the supermarkets, they sell both types. The hard version is wrapped in plastic. The softer version is usually sold with liquid in a little bucket or in plastic wrap with liquid.
So glad I found this recipe! It’s absolutely beautiful and I’ve been looking for hearty meals to cook as since we moved to Cyprus we live off salad or McDonald’s haha! Thankyou for sharing!
A Cypriot friend told us about this simple dish when we moved to Cyprus. It’s his favourite.
I make it with fresh Anari and lots of lemons picked locally by myself. It’s delicious!
You can jazz it up a bit by adding different seasonings to the chicken as it boils for a change too.