1 sprig dill
3—4 pomegranates
1 red pepper
Mince walnuts, onions, garlic, coriander, dill, and red peppers; add salt and mix thoroughly. Boil some water, cool it, mix with pomegranate juice, and add in the minced seasoning. Pour in some walnut oil.
Products:
1 kg fatty mutton / lamb meat with bones
1/2 kg onions
1 bunch estragon
Coriander and parsley, 5 sprigs each
1 teas glass fresh tkemali
2 glasses white wine
Pepper and salt to taste
Take fat mutton or lamb meat with bones, cut it into small pieces and put into a saucepan. Pour in some water to cover the meat and cook on a slow fire, then add shredded onions and stew. Add shredded parsley, coriander, estragon, cook for approx. 5 min. and put in some fresh tkemali. When the tkemali is done, pour in some white wine and season with salt and pepper.
Enjoy with “Tsinandali” wine or “Mukuzani”
Products:
1 hen, approx. 800—900 g
4 eggs
2 tablespoons vinegar
4—5 bulbs onions
3 teaspoons wheat flour
1 teaspoon dry saffron (“yellow flower”)
1/2 glass finely shredded coriander
Salt to taste
Cut up a fat chicken, put the pieces into a saucepan and stew in their own juice until the chicken meat turns pink. Add onions and finely shredded coriander and stew on a low fire, stirring carefully. Salt to taste, add approximately 10 glasses of cold water, and boil. Mix in some wheat flour and boil for 10 more minutes. Pour in 4 yolks, stir thoroughly and pour in some white vinegar. Dilute 1 teaspoon of dry saffron in 1/3 glass of hot water and leave for 2 hours, then filter. Serve chikhirtma while hot.
Georgian Solyanka (Meat with Pickles)
Products:
1 kg beef meat
0.5 kg onions
Celery, savoury, parsley, basil – 1 sprig each
4 cloves garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
Take some boneless beef meat, beat it and cut into pieces. Sprinkle the meat with salt and black pepper. Fry with shredded onions in its own fat. When the meat and onions turn slightly brown, pour in tomato sauce, vinegar or lemon juice; add minced garlic and pickles (in summer add peeled and chopped tomatoes). Solyanka is better when it has some juice and is a little stinging. Before serving, add shredded dill or parsley.
Enjoy with “Saferavi” wine.
Products:
1 kg beef / mutton
1 kg aubergines
1 kg potatoes
4—5 bulbs onions