Tsitsibeli

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 45 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Let's start by washing the tomatoes. I would like to clarify right away that it is better to take ripe hard red specimens or a pink variety. We will remove the stalks and, if any, defects. Cut them into pieces of the desired size.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the peppers, peeled from stems and seeds, and cut into small pieces. Let's send them to the tomatoes.

3. STEP 3

   

   Now let’s prepare the chopping device and place the vegetables in it. You need to grind it all so that the consistency of the mass becomes more or less homogeneous.

4. STEP 4

   

   I got approximately this consistency after using an immersion blender to grind the vegetables in just a few minutes.

5. STEP 5

   

   Take a saucepan (or other vessel) with a thick bottom. Pour the resulting mass here, add salt and sugar and boil the tsitsibeli, constantly stirring with a wooden spoon, otherwise the sauce will burn (about 25 minutes). Without cover!

6. STEP 6

   

   Let's not waste time, let's sort out the greens (they can be different, but it is advisable to put cilantro), removing large stems and yellow leaves. All this needs to be crushed, but without fanaticism - i.e. so that the pieces of greenery are visible.

7. STEP 7

   

   Peel and rinse the garlic. If you like spicy tsitsibeli, add twice as much garlic. Grind in a convenient way, up to fine chopping. I use a wide knife to press the garlic as much as possible onto the board, and then finely chop it.

8. STEP 8

   

   About 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add garlic, herbs, spices, salt, oil and vinegar to the resulting mass. Let's boil and cook.

9. STEP 9

   

   Pour the tsitsibel into jars (preferably small ones), which should be sterilized with lids 20 minutes before the end of cooking the sauce. Once rolled up, turn them over and let them cool. This beauty will come in handy in winter! And in the summer, at the height of the season, tsitsibel can be prepared for every day.

Comments on the recipe

♥Evgenia

02.09.2023

4.5

The recipe will come in handy. I wanted to try it, thanks. For the winter, I cook bell peppers and tomatoes using this recipe.

Kassandra 52

02.09.2023

4.7

I make this sauce very often, but I don’t cook it. I just make a new one when it runs out. Everyone loves it, and my husband calls it “vitamin explosion” :))