Georgian Recipes

[RMS]

Does anyone have any Republic of Georgia recipes?

[urmaniac13]

Interesting question!! I found this site, seems authentic enough and bookmarked for myself, too... obviously their cuisine is big on meats, but there are also interesting vegetable recipes too... I hope you will enjoy!

http://sisauri.tripod.com/ref/cuisine/cuisine.html#4

[CharlieD]

Actually the site looks very interesting. Georgian cooking is complecated and rewarding. They are most hospitable people I know. There other sites you can find, but this one looks very comprehencive, so try it, let us know how you liked it.

[buckytom]

man, this topic has been on my mind for some time now...

i would recommend picking up the book "a georgian feast", by darra goldstein.


here's one, for georgian egg salad, aka azelila.
http://www.recipezaar.com/121404

another, chicken with tomatoes, aka chakhokhbili:
http://www.kartuli.com/site/modules....rticle&sid=180

and another, georgian candied walnuts, gozinaki, and cheesebread, khachapuri
http://kartuli.com/site/modules.php?...rticle&sid=177


btw, your member name is also a mathematical value for effective average, or root mean square, rms.

[RMS]

Thank you for the web site. It does look interesting. I see at the bottom there is a link for a place that sells Georgian wines. They are just delicious.
If anyone knows of any other sites I'd love to see those too.
Thank you again, much appreciated!

[RMS]

Thanks to you also Bucky! I think we posted at the same time!

[urmaniac13]

Your welcome RMS! I never tried Georgean wine, but I noticed some similar characteristics in their cuisine to those of mediterranean. So it is quite possible that they also produce excellent wines... Now we must try some of the recipes and exchange the results

[CharlieD]

Here is onother one. I found the recipe on this site true to the original ones.

http://www.millionmenu.info/eng/book...ook17/rbook17/

[buckytom]

i have had georgian wines, and they were good, but fairly sweet, and extremely potent. most oenophiles would turn their noses up at it, but it goes really well with russian/turkish/armenian/azerbaijani inspired foods.
they did come in very interesting bottles. handpainted ones, and others were ceramic.

[urmaniac13]

Now I got curious about their wine bottle and I found these... Were they something like this? How cooool!! this is really a work of art!!

[buckytom]

yup, some were like the ones on the right. hand made bottles, so they were'nt perfectly symmetrical. like the person at the kiln was dipping in to the "profits"...

[urmaniac13]

Now I would like to see what happens if you were the kiln attendant...

[RMS]

The wine I tasted wasn't in a fancy bottle. (Those are gorgeous) The bottle was fairly plain but written in georgian. Yes, it was sweet. (I like sweet wine) It would make a good desert wine. (the one I tasted was red)

I'm going to try to make something georgian this weekend.

[urmaniac13]

Yum, we also love sweet red wines!! I will try and see if we can find it around Rome...

RMS let us know how your georgian dinner turns out... we would like to do that too when a opportunity arises!!

[CharlieD]

here is a phone number I found for Georgian wine supplier 1-718-369-9200.Did not try to call.

[RMS]

I'll let you know how it turns out!