Georgia
Georgian Marigold
Ყვითელი ყვავილი
Dried and ground marigold petals used as a colouring and mildly bitter seasoning, standing in for saffron in Georgian cooking.
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Georgian Mixed Pickles
Მწნილი
Green tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and garlic fermented in brine rather than vinegar, served with bean stew and corn bread.
Adjara, Georgia
Georgian Pakhlava
Ფახლავა
A Georgian baklava of thin, crunchy layers of filo filled with nuts and soaked in sugar-honey syrup, an Adjarian specialty.
Guria, Georgia
Georgian Sausage
Კუპატი
A coarse sausage of pork, offal, pomegranate seed and blue fenugreek in a natural casing, grilled or fried until the skin splits.
Georgia
Georgian Skewered Pork
Მწვადი
Chunks of pork neck grilled over grapevine cuttings without marinade, then thrown into a bowl with raw onion and pomegranate. Kakhetian versions are associated with grilling over grapevine wood, a preparation style rather than a separate canonical.
Georgia
Georgian Yoghurt
Მაწონი
A tart set yoghurt made with a distinct culture, thick, slightly effervescent and eaten plain or thinned as a drink.
Georgia
Ghomi
Ღომი
A stiff white porridge of coarse cornmeal cooked in water without salt, served in a mound as the starch of a western Georgian meal.
Georgia
Grape Must Pudding
Ფელამუში
Grape must thickened with corn flour, poured into moulds and set, then eaten cold with walnuts.
Georgia
Grape Must Syrup
Ბადაგი
Fresh grape juice boiled down to a dark sweet syrup at the autumn harvest, the base of churchkhela and pelamushi.
Georgia
Guda Cheese
Გუდის ყველი
Sheep's milk cheese matured inside a sheepskin bag in the high pastures, coming out pungent, salty and crumbly.
Georgia
Gupta
Ქუფთა
Gupta are Georgian meatballs simmered in a spiced sauce or light soup, made from seasoned minced meat and served as a home-style main.
Guria, Georgia
Gurian Khachapuri
Გურული ხაჭაპური
A crescent-shaped folded cheese bread with hard-boiled egg inside the filling, made for Christmas Eve. The same crescent is also called Guruli Gvezeli, especially around Christmas.
Georgia
Herb Pie
Მხლოვანა
A flat bread filled with chopped wild greens, herbs and cheese, made in mountain villages when the spring greens come up.
Georgia
Honey Walnut Brittle
Გოზინაყი
Walnuts chopped and cooked in honey until the honey darkens, then spread thin and cut into diamonds while still warm.
Imereti, Georgia
Imeretian Cheese
Იმერული ყველი
A young white brined cows' cheese, mild and lightly sour, the cheese that goes inside most khachapuri.
Imereti, Georgia
Imeretian Khachapuri
Იმერული ხაჭაპური
A flat round bread with young sour cheese sealed inside the dough and cooked on a griddle, cut into wedges like a pie.
Georgia
Khabizgina
Ხაბიზგინა
An Ossetian-style round khachapuri from Georgia's mountain regions, stuffed with cheese and mashed potatoes, baked into a filled flatbread.
Georgia
Khachapuri
Хачапури
Georgia's cheese bread, in a dozen regional shapes: sealed and flat in the west, open like a boat with an egg on the coast, layered in puff pastry in the city.
Georgia
Kharcho
Харчо
A thick beef soup soured with tklapi plum leather, thickened with ground walnut and rice, and heavy with coriander, garlic and Georgian spices.
Georgia
Khashi
Ხაში
Beef tripe and trotters simmered overnight into a thick white broth, eaten at dawn with garlic, salt and a shot of chacha.
Kakheti, Armenia
Khashlama
Խաշլամա
Lamb or beef and whole vegetables layered in a pot with beer or water and left to steam for hours without stirring.
Georgia
Khinkali
Хинкали
Large pleated dumplings of spiced minced meat and broth, twisted into a thick doughy knot, boiled and eaten by hand with black pepper.
Georgia
Khmeli suneli
Ხმელი სუნელი
A Georgian spice blend of ground coriander, blue fenugreek, marigold and pepper.
Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Georgia
Khvanchkara
Ხვანჭკარა
A semi-sweet Georgian red wine from the Khvanchkara micro-region of Racha.
Kakheti, Georgia
Kindzmarauli
Ქინძმარაული
A naturally semi-sweet red from Saperavi grown in one appellation, the sweetness left by stopping fermentation rather than by adding sugar.
Kutaisi, Georgia
Lagidze Waters
Ლაღიძის წყლები
Carbonated water mixed to order with fruit and herb syrups — cream, chocolate, tarragon, grape — poured from tall glass cylinders.
Georgia
Lamb and Vegetable Pot
Ჩანახი
Lamb layered in a sealed clay pot with aubergine, tomato, potato and herbs and baked slowly with no added liquid.
Georgia
Lamb in Tarragon and Green Plums
Ჩაქაფული
Lamb or veal stewed in white wine with vast quantities of tarragon, spring onion and sour green plums, cooked only in spring.
Georgia
Layered Sweet Pastry
Ქადა
Layers of yeasted dough spread with a filling of butter, flour and sugar cooked to a crumb, rolled up and baked.
Georgia
Lobiani
Ლობიანი
The same flat round bread as khachapuri, filled with mashed spiced kidney beans and often bacon fat instead of cheese.
Georgia
Mchadi
Მჭადი
A flat, unleavened cake of coarse cornmeal and water cooked on a griddle or in a clay pan, eaten hot with cheese and beans. Walnut-enriched mchadi is a recognised form, but the plain corn bread is the canonical item here.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Megrelian Khachapuri
Მეგრული ხაჭაპური
The round khachapuri with a second layer of cheese melted over the top as well as sealed inside, baked until the surface blisters.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Mint Curd Rolls in Cheese
Გებჟალია
Sheets of stretched cheese rolled around a mint-and-chilli curd, sliced and served swimming in seasoned milk.
Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia
Mountain Khinkali
Მთიულური ხინკალი
The original highland dumpling: lamb or beef chopped by hand with nothing but onion, salt and pepper, no herbs.
Georgia
Mtsvane pamidori
Მწვანე პომიდვრის მწნილი
Georgian Green Tomato Pickle is made from firm unripe tomatoes brined with garlic, herbs and spices until sharply sour.
Kakheti, Georgia
Mukuzani
Მუკუზანი
A dry Georgian red wine from the Mukuzani appellation in Kakheti, made from Saperavi.