Georgia
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Khachapuri
Georgia's cheese boat: a yeasted dough canoe filled with molten sulguni and imeruli cheese, finished with a knob of butter and a raw egg yolk to stir in. Ingredients: flour, yeast, milk, sugar (dough); sulguni and imerul…
Khinkali
Georgia's giant soup dumplings: twisted dough purses of spiced minced meat and broth, held by the stem, flipped, peppered and eaten by hand — the stem never eaten. Ingredients: flour, water, salt (dough); filling: beef,…
Pkhali
The walnut jewels of the supra feast: vegetables — spinach, beet greens, eggplant — bound in a spiced walnut paste, rolled or moulded and crowned with pomegranate seeds. Ingredients: spinach or beet leaves, eggplant, wal…
Churchkhela
The candle-shaped sweet of the harvest: walnuts threaded on strings and dipped again and again in thickened grape juice until they become glossy, chewy churchkhela. Ingredients: walnuts (or hazelnuts), grape juice (badag…
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