Caucasian cuisine is rich in various appetizers, soups, hot and cold dishes. A
great variety of green vegetables is used in making appetizers. They are: egg-plants,
tomatoes, string-beans, cabbage, sauerkraut, cauliflower, beets, potatoes, garlic,
brown onions, spinach and also greens, spices, mushrooms, eggs and walnuts.
The latter are used in making sauces to dishes of all kind. What appetizers can guests
taste? Here are some of them. 1) Egg-plants stuffed with walnuts, garlic, brownonion,
cut small kinza, celery, parsley, dried cinnamon, clove, winy vinegar, cayenne, salt. 2)
Baked egg-plants with walnuts and pomegranate. 3) Fried egg-plants and tomato
sauce. 4) Salted egg-plants and walnuts. 5) Grilled mushrooms and walnut sauce. 6)
Stewed tomatoes and walnuts. 7) String-bean salad. 8) Spinach, garlic and thick sour-
cream etc.
There are soups to any taste but most popular are spicy soup khartcho, tender
chihirtma and thick chanahy.
As for meat dishes, the guests can taste meat-boiled, roast, stewed, grilled and
on a spit. For example: 1) boiled beef in tomato sauce with greens; 2) roast beef and
string-beans with greens; 3)beef fillet stewed in walnut and tomato sauce; 4) pork fillet
stewed with quince; 5) boiled mutton in garlic sauce; 6) liver in pomegranate sauce; 7)
pilaf.
Meat on a spit shashlyk is served everywhere in Georgia. It is suckling, lamb,
beef, chicken and even kidneys.
The poultry dishes are also very popular in Caucasian cookery: 1) oiled
chicken in garlic sauce; 2) roast or boiled chicken in walnut sauce (bazha). The sauce
is made from minced walnuts, garlic, cut small kinza, salt and vinegar. The chicken is
roasted or boiled, then cut in pieces, put on a dish and poured with this sauce. 3)
chakhohbily of chicken; 4) chicken "Tabaka"; 5) satsivy of poultry.
How about fish and fish dishes? The guests can taste: 1) fried fish in tomato
sauce; 2) boiled fish in garlic sauce; 3) satsivy of fish. There are many egg-dishes: 1)
cheese-sulguny and eggs; 2) tomatoes and eggs; 3) string-beans and eggs; 4)
walnuts, pomegranate and eggs and some others.
Let us add a few words about baked items. We all know khachapouri - pies
with cheese and egg filling. But not everybody knows that khachapouri can be baked
with potatoes, kidney-beans or top beets. Then go pies with raisins and walnuts,
honey pies and sweet, delicious gozinaky (shelled chopped walnuts boiling with
honey). Gozinaky is a traditional New-Year dish. For tea you can have a great variety
of jams: apricot, sweet cherries, water-melon, fig, quince and even green tomato jams