Georgian meat dishes recipes. Georgian cuisine dishes

No, friends, we are not turning into a culinary site. The thing is that when talking about Georgia, it is simply impossible to bypass the topic of food or touch it superficially: the food here is so amazing that it is worth coming here just to eat.

This is another article about Georgian cuisine, this time - as many as 30 dishes that you must try. Read, take note and be sure to come try.

1. Puri

No wonder they say that bread is the head of everything. Georgian cuisine begins with bread, bread is special here and is one of the main components of the diet. Puri is the most recognizable pastry in Georgia due to its shape - this bread cannot be confused with anything.

Georgians bake bread in traditional clay ovens called tone. The fire burns at the bottom of the oven and heats its walls, on which the Georgian baker “slaps” the cakes so that they are attached and baked in a vertical state.

2. Khachapuri

Georgian cheese bread or tortilla with cheese is another important part of Georgian cuisine. There are several versions of khachapuri preparation, which depend on the region. Everything you need to try:

Imeretinsky - round with cheese inside.

Megrelian - similar to Imereti, but contains cheese and butter not only inside, but also outside.

Adjarian - boat-shaped khachapuri containing cheese, egg and butter.

Khachapuri on a skewer - cheese and dough are wound on a skewer and cooked on a barbecue.

3. Science

- This is Georgian spicy bread, which can be tasted far from everywhere. It is also baked in tone, but is interesting in that it has the aroma of cloves, cinnamon and contains raisins. This pastry is typical for the city of Surami. There are many small roadside bakeries where you can buy science hot right out of the oven.

4. Chvishtari

Chvishtari are Georgian cornbread. They come from Svaneti. Inside chvishtari - cheese, served with sauce.

5. Suluguni

Georgian cheese similar in texture to mozzarella. It is salty, viscous, divided into "strings". It is eaten just like that or added to various dishes (for example, khachapuri).

6. Nadugi

This is an original Georgian appetizer, consisting of fresh cottage cheese with a delicate creamy taste, wrapped in thin suluguni cheese.

7. Jonjoli

A traditional Georgian appetizer, plain in appearance, but very interesting in taste. These are pickled flowers. Slightly reminiscent of sauerkraut and salted olives.

8. Salad

The word "salad" in the menu of Georgian cafes often refers to a salad of cucumbers and tomatoes. Additional ingredients and dressing may vary by establishment. The photo shows a salad of cucumbers and tomatoes with onions and walnuts. It also turns out very tasty with Kakhetian oil.

9. Georgian chicken salad

Another salad that often appears on the menu of most establishments is listed as qatmis salati. It is a simple chicken salad with onions, mayonnaise and spices.

10. Olivier or Russian potato salad

Olivier is considered a traditional dish of Russian cuisine here. This salad is quite popular, it is served almost everywhere. But this is not quite familiar to us Olivier. Here it is cooked without sausage. And often confused with vinaigrette - ask the waiter what exactly is called Olivier in the institution.

11. Badrijani

One of the most favorite snacks of tourists is eggplant rolls. The filling can be very varied, but always contains cheese and walnuts.

12. Phali

Pkhali is an original appetizer in the form of flatbreads, the main ingredient can be almost any vegetable or herb, the most popular are beets and spinach. It is served as a side dish for meat dishes, as an independent dish, as an appetizer.

13. Dolma

This is an appetizer in the form of a rice-meat mass wrapped in a cabbage or grape leaf. In Georgia, it is traditionally served with yoghurt garlic sauce. Strictly speaking, this is a dish of Armenian cuisine, but in Georgia they love dolma and know how to cook it.

14. Khinkali

This is boiled meat in dough, reminiscent of dumplings. You need to eat only with your hands, holding them by the ponytails. In each region, they are prepared differently and with different fillings. In Tbilisi, we recommend trying the city recipe with meat and herbs. If you are traveling along the Georgian military road, stop in the village of Pasanauri. It is considered the birthplace of khinkali and here they are excellent.

15. Chikhirtma

Unusual chicken soup, which includes meat, herbs, egg, flour and vinegar. From the habit it may seem a little sour due to vinegar, but in general the taste of the broth is rich and harmonious. If you went too far with wine yesterday, chikhirtma will be your salvation.

16. Mtsvadi

Served with plum sauce tkemali or tomato satsebeli. As a rule, the meat is cooked without marinade at all, but generously flavored with onions and pomegranate seeds.

17. Fried potatoes

A classic side dish that can be ordered everywhere is fried potatoes served with tkemali sauce.

18. Lobio

A dish of beans with onions and herbs. Depending on the institution, it may differ slightly both in composition and in consistency. Served most often in a small clay pot. Try drowning a pod of hot pepper in a pot and popping lobio along with mchadi (corn tortilla).

19. Chashushuli

A traditional Georgian dish is veal stewed with onions and peppers.

20. Chakapuli

Again, meat stewed with herbs and spices. Lamb is used as meat, sour plums, cilantro, tarragon, white wine are used as additives.

21. Kharcho

Traditional Georgian first course with beef, can be served with or without rice. There are also vegetarian versions of kharcho with eggplant, zucchini, walnuts. Be careful - kharcho is always a very spicy dish.

22. Trout in pomegranate sauce

Trout is fried whole until crispy, served in sweet or salty pomegranate sauce.

23. Matsoni

This is Georgian yogurt. It has a pleasant delicate taste, served at room temperature. Also widely used in sauces and dressings.

24. Churchkhela

This is a dessert in the form of a string of nuts in thick caramelized grape syrup. It is sold on every corner, but do not buy churchkhela on the street - there it has dried up, absorbed all the delights of road dust. Buy in stores. The correct churchkhela is not hard, but stretchy, like nougat.

25. Chiri

Chiri is dried persimmon. Such a delicacy can be found in the same shops where they sell churchkhela. Sliced persimmons are strung on threads and hung until completely dry for several weeks.

26. Borjomi

This is a popular mineral water not only in Georgia, but also far beyond its borders, which is extracted from the source of the same name. You can buy it in any store and cafe, as well as drink directly from the source if you find yourself in Borjomi.

27. Lemonade

If Georgians do not drink Borjomi, wine or beer, then they drink lemonade. There are many variations of lemonade here, it can be different in taste and color.

28. Waters of Lagidze

This is sparkling water with syrups that awakens warm nostalgia in tourists. There are many flavors: cherry, cream, lemon, pear, tarragon, grapes, vanilla and even chocolate.

29. Traditional wine

Namely, made in qvevri (large clay jugs buried in the ground) according to the traditional recipe, as the ancestors did eight thousand years ago. You will not taste such wine in any other country in the world, so take a moment - taste Georgian wines and take them home.

30. Chacha

Traditional grape vodka, which is made from the remains of wine materials. Try chacha if you like hard liquor. The main thing is to calculate your strength and do not interfere with other alcohol.

This list is far from complete, there are many more delicious dishes in Georgian cuisine. When you find yourself in Georgia, eat everything and more - it is better to gain a couple of extra pounds than to regret the missed opportunity to know one of the most amazing cuisines in the world.

By Katherine Belarmino and Romeo Belarmino.

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Georgian cuisine or national cuisine of Georgia is a mixture of spices and spices that are invariably present in every dish. Desserts are the only exception to this rule. Georgian cuisine throughout the history of its existence has been able to maintain a unique identity and it has remained almost unchanged to this day. This means that by visiting a restaurant or cafe of traditional Georgian cuisine and choosing one of the offered dishes from the menu, you can enjoy a real delicacy, which is prepared according to an old homemade recipe that is at least a hundred years old. The only change that has been made to the national recipes of modern Georgian cuisine is new utensils, as well as new kitchen appliances. But this is just an additional help to the skillful hands of the cook!

So what does traditional Georgian home cooking actually consist of?! These are snacks, first courses (all kinds of soups), hot second courses, salads, preparations for the winter, desserts and all kinds of pastries. In general, the peculiarity of the national cuisine of Georgia lies in the variety of its dishes, which we have to deal with!

Since Georgian cuisine traditionally uses a lot of spices and spices in the recipes of its dishes, we will start with them. The most famous are dry adjika (used in the preparation of meat dishes), dried barberry berries (they are added to various side dishes, as well as to meat), suneli hops (this is a mixture of dried herbs: mint, parsley, bay leaf, celery, basil, saffron , marjoram and red pepper), saffron (this spice is used in the preparation of fish, poultry, and fish; it gives the dish a characteristic orange tint), dried ginger (used in the manufacture of sauces and various pastries), cinnamon (it is traditionally used for cooking desserts, as well as for the preparation of first and hot meat dishes). As for spicy fresh herbs, basil, cilantro, parsley, mint and wild garlic are most often used. Of course, this list can be continued for a very long time, and therefore this is a topic for a separate article. We will continue to deal with the features of traditional Georgian cuisine.

Snacks in Georgian cuisine are very diverse. They are cold and hot. The former include, for example, the famous Lobio (stewed beans - white, red or green green beans). Also, cold appetizers are represented by vegetable stew (Ajapsandali), eggplants and tomatoes in various culinary treatments, Pkhali (a dish of spinach, young nettle leaves, beet leaves with dressing of walnuts, onions, garlic, hot peppers, cilantro, salt, hops - suneli and wine vinegar). As for hot appetizers, the most famous among them is Kuchmachi. These are either boiled chicken gizzards or boiled pork giblets with peanut sauce.

There are salads in Georgian cuisine, and there are a lot of recipes for their preparation, but usually Georgians simply serve fresh vegetables and herbs to the table.

The abundance of first courses in the national cuisine of Georgia strikes the imagination of even an avid gourmet. The most famous soups are:

Kharcho (prepared on a sour base of tkemali with the addition of beef, rice and walnuts);
Chikhirtma (this is a rather unusual and difficult dish to prepare; its peculiarity lies in the complete absence of vegetable grounds, the density is achieved by adding flour and egg white);
Khashi (a soup consisting of a broth on beef tripes and legs, to which bread soaked in milk is added);
Shechamandy (vegetarian first course, which does not include cereals and vegetables; it is prepared on a sour-milk base, a fruit-sour base and a nut-green base, which is thickened with the addition of flour).

Second courses are, as a rule, meat dishes, for the preparation of which lamb, beef, pork, chicken meat, and offal are used. The most striking example of such a dish is Khinkali. In fact, these are large dumplings, the filling of which is minced lamb, beef or pork, seasoned with black pepper. Satsivi can also be called a fairly well-known second course. Satsivi is a spicy stew with the addition of poultry meat and walnuts. Also, the previously named category of dishes includes fried sausages, kebabs and tobacco chicken, which you have probably not only heard about, but also tried them!

The variety of sauces in Georgian home cooking is also amazing! There are many of them, it seems even that all the names can not be remembered. The most famous are Adjika, Satsebeli and Kindz-dzmari.

Georgian pastry is also quite famous all over the world. By the way, it differs in contrast to the region of the country. So, for example, in Western Georgia, corn flour cakes are most common, while in Eastern Georgia, wheat bread is baked. Yet, when it comes to traditional Georgian pastries, the first thing that comes to mind is Khachapuri - delicious tortillas with cheese.

As for desserts in Georgian cuisine, they are represented by Churchkhella (nuts in thickened grape juice), kozinaki, pelamushi (thick jelly based on grape juice, which is invariably served cold), baty-buty (cornflake balls poured with sugar syrup ) and a rather large number of dishes, which you can talk about endlessly, because, as we noted earlier, Georgian cuisine is simply amazing with its variety of dishes!

And in the end, we would like to mention the homemade preparations for the winter that Georgians make year after year! Since ancient times, these people have accumulated a lot of ways to preserve fruits, vegetables, cheese and meat for quite a long time. Although you will learn about this in more detail from those recipes that are given in this section in a large variety!

We have completed a short introductory course into the specifics of real Georgian cuisine, so now we invite you to join the study of the photo recipes presented on this site. These are the most detailed master classes on creating real culinary masterpieces. They are written not only in a simple accessible language, but they are also equipped with step-by-step photos, which will simplify the cooking process as much as possible. Thus, with our recipes you can easily cook any Georgian dish!

Create real culinary masterpieces at home and delight your loved ones with them!