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Georgian cooking

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Adjarian Khachapuri

Boat-shaped bread filled with molten cheese, finished with a raw egg cracked into the center and a pat of butter. The yolk stays runny — you break off the crust, stir everything together and dip. Georgia's most iconic dish.

90 min580 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian💪High protein

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Sauces and Dips

Adjika

A fiery Georgian-Abkhazian spice paste of hot red peppers, garlic, salt, walnuts, and Caucasian spices like blue fenugreek and coriander. Authentic adjika has no tomatoes; it is ground raw into a red pesto-like paste and used as a rub or condiment.

25 min25 kcal20 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Ajapsandal

Adzhapsandali is a traditional Caucasian dish — a flavorful stew of eggplants, tomatoes and peppers, seasoned with fresh herbs and spices. Ideal both as a cold appetizer and a hot main course.

35 min375 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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Sauces and Dips

Bazhe

A cold, uncooked Georgian walnut sauce, often called the king of Georgian sauces. Ground walnuts, garlic, and spices like blue fenugreek and marigold are loosened with vinegar and water into a creamy, tangy sauce served with poultry, fish, and vegetables.

15 min130 kcal10 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Chebureki with Meat (Georgian Style)

Large half-moon deep-fried pastries with an incredibly juicy spiced meat filling. The thin unleavened dough blisters into a golden, crispy shell. Beloved across the Caucasus, chebureki are best eaten hot, straight from the pan.

120 min600 kcal8 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

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Meat Dishes

Chicken Tabaka

Georgia's iconic dish: a whole small chicken is butterflied, seasoned with khmeli-suneli, adjika and wine vinegar, then pressed flat and pan-fried under a heavy weight until both sides are deeply golden and crispy. Named after the tapaka — the traditional cast-iron pan with a heavy lid.

60 min450 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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Soups

Chikhirtma

A Georgian chicken soup with almost no vegetables, thickened with egg yolks to a velvety, golden creaminess and soured with vinegar. Saffron colours it and cilantro gives it its Georgian character; it is a Kakhetian winter dish and a famous hangover cure.

75 min260 kcal6 serves

Grilled Trout in Pomegranate (Georgian Kalmakhi)

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Grilled Trout in Pomegranate (Georgian Kalmakhi)

Kalmakhi is grilled mountain trout under a pomegranate glaze, one of Georgia's oldest dishes. The fish is grilled whole until the skin is crisp, then dressed with reduced pomegranate juice and scattered with raw onion, cilantro, and pomegranate seeds. The sweet-tart pomegranate sets off the rich, tender trout — simple and bright.

30 min340 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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Soups

Kharcho

A rich Georgian beef soup from Mingrelia, spicy and sour. Fatty beef simmers long with rice and ground walnuts, and the signature sour note comes from tkemali (sour plum sauce) rather than tomato. Garlic and fresh cilantro are stirred in at the end.

90 min320 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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Meat Dishes

Mtsvadi (Georgian Pork Shashlik)

Mtsvadi is Georgian pork shashlik grilled over charcoal. You want a fatty cut — pork neck — with a short marinade of onion, pomegranate juice, and khmeli suneli, then grapevine coals until the edges char and the center stays juicy. It comes off the skewer onto lavash, with pickled onion and pomegranate seeds.

150 min490 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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Sauces and Dips

Satsebeli

A Georgian tomato-and-walnut sauce whose name means for dunking. Ripe tomatoes are reduced and blended with walnuts, garlic, cilantro, basil, and Georgian spices like blue fenugreek into a tangy, pourable sauce served with grilled meat, potatoes, and bread.

30 min55 kcal12 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Satsivi (Georgian Chicken in Walnut Sauce)

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Meat Dishes

Satsivi (Georgian Chicken in Walnut Sauce)

Satsivi takes its name from the Georgian word for cold, and that's how it's meant to be eaten — poached poultry buried in a thick, pale walnut sauce that sets as it chills. Ground walnuts, softened onion, and garlic are loosened with the poaching broth and spiced with blue fenugreek, marigold saffron, coriander, and clove. It's a fixture of the Georgian New Year table, made a day ahead so the flavours settle and the sauce thickens.

120 min590 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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