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Adjarian Khachapuri with flour, egg and butter — Georgia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

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

Adjika with hot red peppers, blue fenugreek and ground coriander — Georgia recipe

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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

Ajapsandal with eggplant, tomato and garlic — Georgia recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Ajapsandal

Ajapsandal (also spelled Adzhapsandali or Ajapsandali) is a Georgian vegetable stew of eggplants, bell peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, seasoned with cilantro, basil, parsley, garlic and hot pepper. The eggplant is fried first, then everything simmers together under a lid for 20 to 25 minutes. It is served hot as a main course or cold as an appetiser, and many people think it tastes better the next day. The 70 minutes cover chopping, frying and stewing; salting the eggplant adds 20 to 30 minutes of waiting, and the finished stew rests another 15 to 20.

70 min470 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Bazhe with walnuts, blue fenugreek and ground coriander — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪GeorgiaMedium

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

Chebureki with Meat (Georgian Style) with flour, minced meat and onion — Georgia recipe

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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

Chicken Tabaka with chicken, garlic and butter — Georgia recipe

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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

Chikhirtma with chicken, egg yolks and fresh cilantro — Georgia recipe

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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

Georgian Khinkali with wheat flour, ground beef and ground pork — Georgia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Georgian Khinkali

Khinkali are large Georgian dumplings built to hold seasoned meat and its own hot broth. The dough must be sturdy enough to pleat without tearing, yet thin enough to eat around the thick top knot. They are boiled, showered with black pepper and eaten by hand while the broth is still hot.

150 min610 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Grilled Trout in Pomegranate (Georgian Kalmakhi) with trout, pomegranate juice and onion — Georgia recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Grilled Trout in Pomegranate (Georgian Kalmakhi)

Kalmakhi is trout grilled whole over high heat and dressed Georgian-style with a reduced pomegranate sauce. The skin is crisp, the flesh tender, and the fish is finished with raw onion, cilantro, and pomegranate seeds. The sweet-tart pomegranate sets off the rich trout — simple and bright.

30 min340 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Kharcho with beef, walnuts and rice — Georgia recipe

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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

Mtsvadi (Georgian Pork Shashlik) with pork neck, onion and pomegranate juice — Georgia recipe

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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

Satsebeli with tomatoes, walnuts and fresh cilantro — Georgia recipe

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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

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