Bread
Adjaruli Khachapuri
A boat of bread filled with molten cheese, with an egg yolk and a knob of butter dropped in at the end and stirred…
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Georgian recipes
Walnuts, herbs and cheese-filled bread worth the trip. 8 Georgian recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 8 recipes cover 3 of the site’s categories, among them 5 dinners, 2 appetisers and small plates and 1 bake. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 6, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 3 easy, 3 medium and 2 hard.
As written, 4 are vegetarian, 3 vegan, 4 gluten-free and 4 dairy-free. Another recipe meets a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Georgian recipes — all 8 recipes
Dinner
Khinkali
Large pleated Georgian dumplings with a soupy meat filling, held by the twisted knot and eaten in one go, with the…
Dinner
Lobio
Red kidney beans stewed with onion, coriander, walnuts and blue fenugreek, mashed slightly and eaten hot from a clay…
Dinner
Chakhokhbili
Chicken cooked with no liquid at all beyond what the tomatoes and onions give up, then finished with a great deal of…
Appetizers
Pkhali
Vegetables blanched, squeezed and pounded with walnut, garlic and coriander into small mounds. Georgia's table…
Dinner
Satsivi
Poached chicken in a rich, spiced walnut sauce, served cold or at room temperature. A Georgian New Year dish.
Appetizers
Badrijani Nigvzit
Slices of fried aubergine spread with a garlicky walnut paste, rolled up and topped with pomegranate seeds. A…
Dinner
Azerbaijani Plov
Saffron rice with a golden lavash crust, served with a separate dish of lamb, dried apricots, prunes and chestnuts.