Tkemali at home - 3 cooking recipes

This word has two distinct concepts, and both are directly related to Georgian cuisine: 1) A type of uncultivated cherry plum, a wild plum, strongly sour in taste. It is used as an ingredient for sauces and seasonings, usually served with meat. 2) A sauce made from the cherry plum of the same name. It contains aromatic herbs, garlic and red pepper, but tkemali is not necessarily spicy, and it is normal for it to have a sweetish aftertaste. The sauce also varies in degree of acidity, which depends on the specific recipe for preparing tkemali.