Georgian cuisine in our family love. Satsivi, for example - a mandatory element of any holiday table, as spelled out in the kitchen lobio almost constantly. Because we have in our home gourmet archive wonderful little book. "Georgian cuisine" is called. Released her back in 1988 Tbilisi Publishers Sabchota Sakartvelo.
The Georgian "dzrohis hortsi vharshot", from which went kharcho, literally means simply "going to cook the meat cows. But the East - a delicate matter, can not be a nation with such a rich culinary tradition to be so categorical on kharcho. Sometimes, beef, and mutton, and pork, and chicken, and fish. And even a smoked goose as a basis is used.
If you consult the food guide "Georgian cuisine" on the grub, get 14 different versions of dishes that combine only two elements: rice and Georgian spice hops-suneli. Let me tell you about the main and favorite, tried and tested in our house.
Kharcho Lamb
You can mix kharcho as I described in the article "Want kharcho? Let's cook together! ". It is possible, it admits the Georgian kitchen, replace rice 3 / 4 cup vermicelli "spider". But there is another equally classic version.
Layout
Fatty lamb - 0,5 kg
Onions - 2-3 large heads
Rice - 4 tbsp. spoon
Tomato paste - 100 grams
Garlic - 3 medium cloves
Sweet pepper - 5-6 peas
Green cilantro, dill and parsley - 3-4 sprigs
Hop-suneli, pepper, salt - to taste
Bay leaf - 1 pc.
Preparation.
In the cup round rice soak in cold water.
Cut off the half with mutton fat. Meat cut portions, pour 2.5 liters of water and cook on medium heat for two hours. As soon as the foam rises, it is necessary to remove skimmer, soup spoon. Once the broth is ready, it is necessary to filter.
In a skillet or deep frying pan melt the mutton fat, add chopped onions and cook about 10 minutes, then add the tomato paste and simmer another 15 minutes. Then add the mixture into the soup, give it a boil and put in a pot Fig.
After 20 minutes it's time to put chopped garlic, herbs and hops-suneli, allspice and bay leaf. Let soup boil for about 15 minutes. Then pulls Lavrushka and off the stove.
Kharcho beef with nuts
Eventually, you'll have a thick sauce-type satsivi, so that fans of the first liquid meal, this recipe can be upsetting. Classic Georgian variant involves the use of sour sauce or pita tklapi tkemali. If for some reason you can not find neither one nor the other, it is recommended to use vinegar.
Layout
Fatty beef - 0,5 kg
Onions - 0,6 kg
Walnuts - 2 cups
Corn flour - 1 tbsp. l.
Coriander (cilantro seeds) - 2 tsp.
Hop-suneli - 1 tsp.
Caps, tkemali, garlic, green cilantro, salt - to taste
Preparation
Beef washed, cut into pieces and stew in a saucepan. Juice, with stand out, to merge in a separate dish. It is we still need. The meat add some finely diced onion, how to roast thoroughly. Permissible even the formation of brown onion and meat.
While the process goes, chops nuts, using a blender, coffee grinder or grinder - as you prefer. To these are added in the same manner chopped pepper, green cilantro and garlic.
If the markets in your city cornflour not sell, it will be enough corn finely ground. Prior to her state of flour you can bring in a coffee grinder. Add flour to the nuts, there is - sauce tkemali. I put about 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar. Do not forget the coriander, hop-suneli. If you have saffron, and put it can not hurt.
This whole mixture is diluted to the state of kefir boiling water, hot enough (70-80 degrees), stirring to avoid lumps, and adds to the meat. Let boil about fifteen minutes, and let's go to the table!
Kharcho Chicken
At first glance it seems that this soup reminds satsivi. But it is only at first glance. By the way, instead of the chicken is not forbidden to use goose or turkey.
Layout
Chicken - 1 pcs.
Rice - 1 / 2 cup
Onions - 300 g
Coriander - 4 sprigs
Tkemali Sauce - 2 tbsp. l. (A handful of plum tkemali)
Salt, chilli pepper to taste
Preparation
Medium size chicken (up to 2 pounds) cut into small pieces, put in a saucepan and add water so that it only covered the bird. Try not to miss the moment of formation of foam. It will remove skimmer.
Chicken cooked quickly, but long-term training and we do not need. Fig need crushed, so buy either immediately crushed, or in the process of washing intensively shake long grain. He will turn into mush.
Manage? Add the rice to a bird, put in a saucepan tkemali as a sauce or plum sauce (do not forget about the analog - vinegar?), As well as peppers. Five minutes until cooked soup salt, served on the table, sprinkle finely chopped greens.
While this is all the recipes that I had time to learn. But winter is long, the variations soup kharcho almost limitless. I intend to switch from classical to national exotics. The results necessarily reported prepare notebooks!
If you consult the food guide "Georgian cuisine" on the grub, get 14 different versions of dishes that combine only two elements: rice and Georgian spice hops-suneli. Let me tell you about the main and favorite, tried and tested in our house.
Kharcho Lamb
You can mix kharcho as I described in the article "Want kharcho? Let's cook together! ". It is possible, it admits the Georgian kitchen, replace rice 3 / 4 cup vermicelli "spider". But there is another equally classic version.
Layout
Fatty lamb - 0,5 kg
Onions - 2-3 large heads
Rice - 4 tbsp. spoon
Tomato paste - 100 grams
Garlic - 3 medium cloves
Sweet pepper - 5-6 peas
Green cilantro, dill and parsley - 3-4 sprigs
Hop-suneli, pepper, salt - to taste
Bay leaf - 1 pc.
Preparation.
In the cup round rice soak in cold water.
Cut off the half with mutton fat. Meat cut portions, pour 2.5 liters of water and cook on medium heat for two hours. As soon as the foam rises, it is necessary to remove skimmer, soup spoon. Once the broth is ready, it is necessary to filter.
In a skillet or deep frying pan melt the mutton fat, add chopped onions and cook about 10 minutes, then add the tomato paste and simmer another 15 minutes. Then add the mixture into the soup, give it a boil and put in a pot Fig.
After 20 minutes it's time to put chopped garlic, herbs and hops-suneli, allspice and bay leaf. Let soup boil for about 15 minutes. Then pulls Lavrushka and off the stove.
Kharcho beef with nuts
Eventually, you'll have a thick sauce-type satsivi, so that fans of the first liquid meal, this recipe can be upsetting. Classic Georgian variant involves the use of sour sauce or pita tklapi tkemali. If for some reason you can not find neither one nor the other, it is recommended to use vinegar.
Layout
Fatty beef - 0,5 kg
Onions - 0,6 kg
Walnuts - 2 cups
Corn flour - 1 tbsp. l.
Coriander (cilantro seeds) - 2 tsp.
Hop-suneli - 1 tsp.
Caps, tkemali, garlic, green cilantro, salt - to taste
Preparation
Beef washed, cut into pieces and stew in a saucepan. Juice, with stand out, to merge in a separate dish. It is we still need. The meat add some finely diced onion, how to roast thoroughly. Permissible even the formation of brown onion and meat.
While the process goes, chops nuts, using a blender, coffee grinder or grinder - as you prefer. To these are added in the same manner chopped pepper, green cilantro and garlic.
If the markets in your city cornflour not sell, it will be enough corn finely ground. Prior to her state of flour you can bring in a coffee grinder. Add flour to the nuts, there is - sauce tkemali. I put about 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar. Do not forget the coriander, hop-suneli. If you have saffron, and put it can not hurt.
This whole mixture is diluted to the state of kefir boiling water, hot enough (70-80 degrees), stirring to avoid lumps, and adds to the meat. Let boil about fifteen minutes, and let's go to the table!
Kharcho Chicken
At first glance it seems that this soup reminds satsivi. But it is only at first glance. By the way, instead of the chicken is not forbidden to use goose or turkey.
Layout
Chicken - 1 pcs.
Rice - 1 / 2 cup
Onions - 300 g
Coriander - 4 sprigs
Tkemali Sauce - 2 tbsp. l. (A handful of plum tkemali)
Salt, chilli pepper to taste
Preparation
Medium size chicken (up to 2 pounds) cut into small pieces, put in a saucepan and add water so that it only covered the bird. Try not to miss the moment of formation of foam. It will remove skimmer.
Chicken cooked quickly, but long-term training and we do not need. Fig need crushed, so buy either immediately crushed, or in the process of washing intensively shake long grain. He will turn into mush.
Manage? Add the rice to a bird, put in a saucepan tkemali as a sauce or plum sauce (do not forget about the analog - vinegar?), As well as peppers. Five minutes until cooked soup salt, served on the table, sprinkle finely chopped greens.
While this is all the recipes that I had time to learn. But winter is long, the variations soup kharcho almost limitless. I intend to switch from classical to national exotics. The results necessarily reported prepare notebooks!
