Georgian cuisine - 212 cooking recipes

Georgian cuisine recipes are quite varied. Among them you can find the preparation of several types of cheeses - feta cheese, suluguni, Imeretian cheese, various variations of the national soup kharcho and the popular tomato soup, khachapuri and barley with various fillings, famous Georgian sauces, delicious salads, khinkali, snacks and baked goods. To prepare main dishes, you can use almost any meat: pork, beef, chicken and lamb.

The main distinctive feature of Georgian cuisine is considered to be the presence in almost all dishes of a traditional contrasting combination of piquant hot and intriguingly spicy flavors. Not a single salad, meat dish or side dish is served without chopped greens. Vegetables are widely used - tomatoes, beans, eggplants, etc. Walnuts, garlic and pomegranate are often added.

Interesting recipe: 1. Cool the boiled fillet and disassemble it into fibers 5-7 cm long.2. Fry the peeled walnuts until lightly browned and cool.3. Wash and tear the green salad leaves into pieces with your hands.4. Finely chop the greens and cooled walnuts.5. Mix matsoni with ground cumin and garlic powder. Salt.6. Peel the films and peel of the tangerine.7. Mix the ingredients.8. Place the lettuce leaflets on a wide plate.9. On top is a mixture of nuts, fillet, matsoni and tangerine.10. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

Helpful tips:• Matsoni can successfully replace unsweetened thick yogurt, sour cream and even mayonnaise.• Herbs such as basil, mint, cilantro, and tarragon are considered traditional for Georgian cuisine. It is best to use them to give a national flavor to the dish.• Chicken can be replaced with beef or turkey.