This a very tasty and healthy chicken salad - no mayonnaise, instead, walnuts with all the healthy oils! It can be served warm as the main dish, but it is mostly treated as a meze.

Our recipe uses the white meat of a whole chicken, including boiling the chicken to make your own broth. You can simplify the recipe by using commercial chicken broth and cooking just two chicken breasts.

Cook the whole chicken in unsalted water. Just add the onion and black pepper for taste. Use a large, heavy pot suitable for slow cooking. Start with cold water. When the water begins to boil reduce the heat and let it simmer. During the first 30 minutes, skim the scum off the top of the broth regularly - this is essential for a clean, tasty broth.. Depending on its size, 1.5 hours should be sufficient to fully cook the chicken.

If you own a pressure cooker, use it to cook your chicken. In our cooker, a whole chicken is cooked in 35 minutes.

As the chicken cools down, we shall prepare the other ingredients. Soak the bread slices in cold water. Let the bread soak the water for a few minutes and then squeeze the water out. Pass the wet bread slices through a grater. You must use good, artisan bread for this recipe.

Finely chop the walnuts. You can do this easily in a food processor.

Put the bread crumbs, chopped walnut and the other ingredients in a mixing bowl.

Measure 2.5 cups of the chicken broth. Pass the broth through a wire mesh strainer. Add the broth to the bowl and mix well.

Use your fingers to divide the chicken into small pieces - be sure to use just the white meat of the chicken for this recipe. You can save the rest for other dishes.

Gently mix the chicken pieces with the sauce. Spread the mix on a shallow serving plate, garnish with olive oil and paprika.

It is also customary to spread the chicken pieces on the serving plate and then pour the sauce over the pieces without any mixing. If you prefer to do this, sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon salt on the chicken and reduce the salt put in the sauce to 1/2 teaspoon.

Serve at room temperature.