In 2023, our La-Cadiere kitchen was visited by renowned masters of Georgian cuisine, Ruben and Irina Gilanovs. They prepared this incredibly delicious dish.
satsivi

Ingredients:

  • Chicken / Guinea fowl / 8 quails
  • 1 cup walnuts (pecans)
  • 1 tablespoon wheat flour
  • Vegetable oil
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 onions – turnip
  • Carrots
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • Utsho-Suneli (blue fenugreek)
  • Vinegar
  • Salt
  • Paprika
  • Ground black pepper
  • Black pepper
  • Laurel leaf

Recipe:

Boil chicken (put into boiling water with 1 onion and 1 carrot, bay leaf, pepper) until tender. Salt – to taste.
After cooking, pull the chicken apart from bones.
Cut it into pieces to taste.

Sauce

Pound nuts in blender.
Add 2 egg yolks and mix together. Add a tablespoonful of ush-Suneli (if you like this spice, you can have more), half a teaspoonful of paprika, ground black pepper (to taste), a pinch of ground nutmeg.

In a pan, fry the flour until golden. Pour the ready flour from the frying pan into a small bowl.
Fry finely chopped onion and 2 cloves of garlic until golden.
Add 2 cups chicken stock.
Bring to the boil, add a tablespoon of wine vinegar.
Dilute the flour in a small amount of broth and add to the pan. After 2-3 minutes add nut and egg mixture.
Stir continuously.
Taste – add salt, spice, spice to taste.

Pour the hot sauce over the chicken, stir and leave in a cold place to solidify.

Let cool – garnish with pomegranate seeds, a sprig of coriander and ….. enjoy!