Georgian Cuisine: Top 13 Dishes With Recipes

Georgian cuisine is famous for spices, herbs, vegetable snacks, cheeses and incredibly delicious meats.

Georgian cuisine is famous for spices, herbs, vegetable snacks, cheeses and incredibly delicious meats. Be sure to cook khachapuri, khinkali, Georgian vegetable salad! We share recipes of Slavic housewives in love with Georgian cuisine.

1. Khachapuri

 

Cottage cheese, cheese, garlic and tender dough! Fluffy warm khachapuri cakes are served as a hearty snack. We will fry khachapuri in a pan, and we will spend just a little more than half an hour preparing four cakes. 

See how easy it is to cook khachapuri (recipe with photo) >>>

2. Khachapuri with egg (Ajarian style)

 

In addition to flour, butter, eggs, you will need sour Georgian yogurt matsoni, as well as two types of cheese - suluguni and feta cheese. At the finished khachapuri, the edge is pinched off and lowered into the hot center with cheese and an egg. Yummy!

Adjarian khachapuri recipe >>>

3. Vegetable salad

 

Rinse three cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as a bunch of fresh herbs and dry with a paper towel. Cucumbers and a purple onion cut into rings, tomatoes into slices, chop the greens. Put 40 g of walnuts in a blender or mortar, add 2-3 cloves of garlic passed through a press, salt, pepper, beat. Then add a tablespoon of wine vinegar, mix. Gradually, stirring, introduce water (2-3 tablespoons) until the consistency of a thick sauce. Pour dressing over vegetables and mix gently. Sprinkle with chopped nuts before serving.

4. Phali

 

The pkhali appetizer is based on any raw or cooked vegetable, herb, meat, fish, cereals. Grind the main ingredient and season with a fragrant sauce of walnuts, chili, cilantro, onions, spices. We sculpt balls and decorate with pomegranate seeds, nuts or herbs. A versatile and budget appetizer for any occasion!

Georgian pkhali recipe >>>

5. Lobio

 

A spicy and fragrant red bean appetizer is very easy to prepare. And to reduce the cooking time of lobio, use canned boiled beans. Of course, we will add walnuts, a lot of greens, garlic and hot peppers!

Step by Step Red Bean Lobio Recipe >>>

6. Dolma

 

Grape leaves stuffed with meat or dolma are stewed over low heat. Dolma is usually served cold. Grape leaves can be bought in supermarkets in canned form or harvested in season yourself.

Dolma step by step recipe >>> 

Learn how to prepare leaves for dolma for the winter >>>

7. Badrijani

 

Badrijani is a Georgian eggplant dish. This includes our favorite fried eggplant rolls with cheese and garlic, and eggplant caviar. Great appetizer for the holiday table!

Eggplant rolls with cheese and garlic >>>

Eggplant rolls with carrots and garlic >>>

Recipe for eggplant caviar slices >>> 

8. Lula kebab

 

Lula kebab is made from lamb and fried on hot coals. Minced meat includes only meat, onions and spices, therefore, to cook this dish on the grill, you need skill and knowledge of some tricks. The meat is delicious!

Step-by-step recipe for making kebab with a photo >>>

9. Ajapsandali

 

Vegetable stew is best cooked during vegetable season. The perfect accompaniment to bread! Ajapsandali is prepared from eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, garlic, onions, and spices. Vegetables are stewed over low heat. Can be served both hot and cold.

Ajapsandali Recipe >>>

10. Khinkali

 

A wrinkled bag of dough with a juicy filling is khinkali. They say that you recognize a skilled hostess by the folds of khinkali: the more folds, the more experienced the hostess. Be sure to cook this dish - khinkali is incredibly tasty!

Watch the khinkali cooking master class >>>

 

Khinkali is eaten with the hands, holding the tail, bite and drink the juice. In no case do not pierce or cut khinkali!

11. Satsivi

 

Chicken with satsivi sauce or simply satsivi is cooked with a lot of walnuts and spices - cinnamon, saffron, suneli hops, garlic, pepper, and wine vinegar. The fragrant dish has dozens of varieties and is very popular in Georgia.

Recipe for chicken satsivi >>>

12. Baklava

 

Nuts, honey, the thinnest puff pastry... The taste of baklava is amazing! True, it is not easy to cook it. Thin sheets of dough are smeared with butter, shifted with chopped walnuts or pistachios, sprinkled with sugar or honey syrup with spices and rose water. Baklava is baked in rolls or in a multi-layered rectangle, which is then cut into diamonds.

Honey baklava recipe >>>

13. Churchkhela

 

Churchkhela is made from nuts strung on a string in pomegranate or grape juice thickened with flour. The delicacy looks wonderful, and its taste is simply amazing! 

See how to cook churchkhela >>>