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i-merani · 5 months

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if you haven't already talked about Georgian food, would you like to share some of your favourite or worth mentioning traditional side dishes and desserts? I'm trying to connect more with cuisine and I only know salad with pomegranate):

Not sure if these qualify as side dishes, we just put everything together at the same time lol but I love Pkhali!! Its like vegetables, herbs and walnuts chopped up and mixed together. Usually we eat it with Mchadi (it's kinda bread but not really? Idk how to explain this lol) and with Georgian cheese. It also comes with eggplant with walnuts. Well it's walnuts and herbs pressed and mixed together and wrapped in eggplant.

This is Pkhali and it can have different colors based on what herbs you use (pomegranate seeds are a must!)

This is walnut paste with herbs wrapped in eggplant (also with fancy pomegranate seeds lol)

To be honest I can't think of much side dishes because everything is kinda its own dish. We also love pickled vegetables (mtsnili/მწნილი) and they come as kind of snacks on the table. My favorite is Jonjoli (ჯონჯოლი), it is very sour.

This is Jonjoli, it doesn't look that tasty but it is😌

More main dish type of food is baked mushrooms with georgian cheese. Usually it is baked on a ceramic plate that you see below and is served with that plate so you have to be very careful not to burn yourself at the beginning.

For the sweets, we don't really have traditional cakes i guess but there are four must know georgian traditional stweets, these are Churchkhela, Pelamushi, Tklapi and Gozinaki.

This is Churchkela. You have walnut or any other nut (usually walnuts) on a string and you dip it in a sort of paste-like mixture made out of different fruits.

Pelamushi is just that paste like mixture but made even more dense in texture, more like a jelly.

Tklapi is also made out of fruits, usually it is either sweet or sour.

And finally, traditional new years sweets that every home makes for new years is Gozinaki. It's roasted nuts glazed in honey.

As you can see Georgians love all sorts of nuts😌😂😂 we use them in lots of dishes.

This is all i could think about but my Georgian mutuals can add some too because there's definitely more stuff.

#tumblr crashed multiple times when i tried to answer this🥲#asks

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petersfoodadventures · 5 years

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Fruit Leather Recipe (Пастила)

Homemade Fruit Leather made from Apricots or Plums. Naturally sun dried without any nasty ingredients. A healthy and tasty snack for your family. Pastila Fruit Leather (Пастила) #fruitleather #apricots #fruitrollup

This homemade Fruit Leather recipe is one of my childhood favorites that we used to make every single summer. Alongside fresh Kompot Juice, it’s a great way to use up summer fruit. Dried fruit is a sweet treat for the kids that is authentic and less processed than store bought. Therefore it’s healthier and a lot of fun to make. A great summer project with your kids. In Russian, we call this…

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dato-georgia-caucasus · 4 years

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Tklapi, traditional Georgian puréed fruit roll-up leather

#ქართული სამზარეულო

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nhouvang-blog · 5 years

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A spread of Georgian food.

Let’s Toast!

Vendors at a cheese market.

Say Cheese

Walnuts are big in Georgia

A hearty stew.

Soup-er foods

Tklapi.

Go wild for the plums

Adjaran Khachapuri by the oven.

World-famous

Classic Adjaran Khachapuri.

Lobiani.

Bean there

This Khinkali photo by Sean and Jen, the Venturists.

Heavenly Dumplings

Mtsvadi.

Shashlik time

Churchkhela for sale.

Georgian Snickers

A Kveri, one of the massive clay jars used to ferment wine underground. This photo by Sean and Jen, the Venturists

Time for Wine? Or is it Chacha Time?

Pkhali/Mkhali (minced vegetables and pureed walnuts).

Georgia, and perhaps neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan as well. With the help of our local staff, you’ll eat at Georgia’s best restaurants and markets, while perhaps learning to cook some treats yourself.

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cook-the-beans · 4 years

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Georgia is a stunning country to travel to and the vegan food is abundant, fresh and delicious. When you find your way around the meat and cheese, you discover a whole world of beans, veggies, bread, potatoes and mushrooms.

One of the reasons Georgian food is so vegan-friendly is because of the Orthodox fasting periods, that many adopt, where they can’t have any food from land animals. You will find that many restaurants have a ‘fasting menu’.

Many local Georgian dishes just happen to be vegan, making our life easier while travelling. In Tbilisi, you have some choices of restaurants and cafes serving specifically vegan food, but outside the capital, the reality is different.

I assure you will not have any problems to eat vegan even when visiting small villages.

Here is a list of some of my favourite vegan dishes that you can get from a regular place in Georgia serving local food.

Vegan-friendly Georgian food

Veggie pâtés

Pkhali – different coloured balls of vegetables minced with walnuts and seasonings, normally with garlic, onion, herbs. The most common are spinach, aubergine and beet.

Eggplant with walnuts (Nigvziani Badrijani) – Slices of eggplant that filled with walnuts, coriander and garlic, served cold topped with pomegranates.

Red pepper stuffed with walnuts – as the name says is a red pepper filled with hearty walnut paste.

Beans and bread

Lobio – It’s a bean stew served in a clay pot, made with red beans, onion, garlic, herbs, and local seasonings. Mchadi – cornbread that is usually eaten with Lobio. Comes in fried and non-fried varieties.

Acharuli, Stew boats – a boat-shaped bread from Georgia, is the most popular filling melted salty cheese and egg. Although I found other options, from aubergine stew, wild mushrooms, spinach and other greens and even with tomato and cucumber salad.

Georgian Pastries: Lobiani – Is a mashed bean-filled bread easily found everywhere. Similar to lobiani is the Mkhvlovani- made with a mixture of different kinds of herbs. I did find other pastries that were vegan but could memorise the names.

Georgian traditional dumplings

Khinkali – The easiest vegan ones to find are the ones with potato and mushroom fillings, but I also had found some with beans and spinach.

Mushrooms

There are several dishes with mushrooms served in clay dishes.

They also have mushrooms cooked in different ways. Wild mushrooms stewed, fried mushrooms, grilled mushrooms, etc.. If you are a mushrooms lover like me Georgia is heaven on earth. Ojakhuri with mushrooms – instead of the traditional potatoes with pork, this one is with mushrooms.

Shilaplavi – Kind of a Georgian risotto with mushrooms.

Vegetable stews

Ajapsandali – is a vegetable stew made with onion, potato, aubergine, bell pepper, tomato, parsley and other seasonings, a little bit like a ratatouille.

Salads

The most common one is Cucumber and Tomato Salad with a creamy walnut and herb sauce, but there are various other kinds of salads too. The Georgian beetroot salad with tkemali (plum sauce) is also quite easy to find.

Mexican potatoes – Thickly cut potatoes with lots of seasoning. They can be fried or baked depending on the restaurant.

Pickles – you can order mixed pickles or plates of specific pickles.

Vegan Georgian Sweets

Churchkhela – also known as the Georgian Snickers is a traditional sweet made from nuts and fruit juice. It is extremely delicious, nutritious, healthy and energizing. To prepare it the string of nuts is repeatedly dipped in concentrated fresh fruit juice.

Tklapi – Thin fruit sheet.

Pelamushi – reminds a frozen pudding prepared with grape juice and walnuts.

Markets

There is no best place to explore Georgian food culture than visiting some of their markets.

Here you can find the best deals to buy fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, dried fruit and grains, coffee and tea, spices and much more.

Georgian Street food

Street food is not a strong concept in Georgia by any means, but you can occasionally find small stall selling, fresh fruit, fresh cold-pressed juice and Turkish coffee.

Have you been to Georgia and tried any of these dishes? Do you know any other traditional Georgian dish that is accidentally vegan?

Travelling vegan in Georgia Georgia is a stunning country to travel to and the vegan food is abundant, fresh and delicious.

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