The Georgian dish of Satsivi is rather mysterious. Some people think that this is a special sauce from walnuts, and others understand this dish as a chicken dish. In addition, it is believed that each region has its own way of preparing satsivi in Georgian.
How to cook satsivi from a chicken?
Georgian recipe offers to take a kilogramchicken meat, a half a kilogram of fresh walnuts, four hundred grams of onions, a pair of cloves of garlic, a teaspoon of spices - coriander, hops-suneli, half a teaspoon of saffron, cinnamon, cloves, two tablespoons of vinegar, salt. Put the cooked chicken. This is best done in advance - the real satsivi in Georgian is eaten with the sauce from the remaining broth. Half-finished chicken should be put on a baking sheet and sent to the oven, from time to time, watering it with juice to make it ruddy. Nuts clean and grind (as small as possible). Brush and chop onion and garlic. You will need about three liters of broth per half a kilogram of nuts, since they absorb the liquid in it no worse than ordinary flour. Fry the onion on fat from the chicken in a deep frying pan. Cool chicken broth and pour walnuts. Add the garlic, pepper, salt, saffron, mix everything thoroughly to the consistency of the liquid sour cream and cook with the onion for a quarter of an hour.
Imeretian Satsivi in Georgian
Another recipe for cooking this dish,connected with the region of Georgia, such as Imeretia. Take a carcass of chicken or turkey, five to seven bulbs, a couple of eggs, about twenty cloves of garlic, a teaspoon of saffron, red pepper, cilantro, hops-suneli, four tablespoons of vinegar, a pound of chopped walnuts, six clove rods, salt. Boil the meat and take it out of the broth. Salt only the chicken, do not add anything to the broth. Leave it overnight, after which remove the fat from the surface and put it in enamelware.