Georgia
Mushrooms in a Clay Pan
Სოკო კეცზე
Whole mushroom caps filled with sulguni and baked gill-up in a clay pan until the cheese bubbles over the edges.
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Muzhuzhi
Მუჟუჟი
A Georgian jellied pork terrine made from pork trotters, vinegar, garlic and herbs, set in its own broth and served cold.
Guria, Georgia
Nabeghlavi
Ნაბეღლავი
A naturally carbonated mineral water from western springs, lighter and less salty than the country's more famous bottle.
Surami, Georgia
Nazuki
Ნაზუქი
A sweet bread enriched with butter, raisins, cinnamon, clove and vanilla, baked flat in a clay oven and sold hot at the roadside.
Georgia
Offal with Walnuts
Კუჭმაჭი
Chicken or pork heart, liver and gizzard fried with onion and dressed hot or cold in walnut, garlic and pomegranate seed.
Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Georgia
Okureshis Usakhelouri
Ოყურეშის უსახელოური
Okureshis Usakhelouri is a protected red wine from Racha made from the local grape, prized for its small production and fragrant, berry-led palate.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Penovani Khachapuri
Ფენოვანი
Squares of puff pastry folded around salty cheese and baked until they shatter, sold hot from bakery windows all day.
Georgia
Pickled Bladdernut Blossom
Ჯონჯოლი
The unopened flower shoots of the bladdernut tree, salted and fermented, served in oil with onion as a starter.
Georgia
Qvevri Wine
Ქვევრის ღვინო
Wine fermented and aged with skins and stems in an egg-shaped clay vessel buried to the neck in the ground, producing tannic amber whites.
Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Georgia
Rachuli Ham
Რაჭული ლორი
A dry-cured smoked ham from the Racha region of Georgia, made from pork leg, salted and smoked over alder wood.
Kakheti, Georgia
Saperavi
Საფერავი
A deeply coloured red from a grape whose flesh as well as skin is red, giving inky wines with high acid and dark fruit.
Georgia
Satsebeli
Საწებელი
Satsebeli is a pourable Georgian tomato-and-pepper sauce sharpened with herbs, garlic and spices, served with grilled meats and bread.
Armenia
Shashlik
Шашлық
Shashlik is marinated meat grilled on skewers with onion and rendered fat, a shared Eurasian form rather than a single national dish.
Georgia
Shechamandi
Შეჩამანდი
Shechamandi is a thin Georgian soup of flour or cornmeal soured with matsoni or plum and served hot with bread; it is separate from Abkhazura meat patties.
Georgia
Shoti Bread
Შოთის პური
A canoe-shaped white loaf slapped onto the wall of a clay tone oven and peeled off when it blisters, sold within minutes of baking.
Georgia
Sinori
Სინორი
Torn sheets of thin flatbread layered with fresh curd and clarified butter, then warmed through so it collapses into a soft mass.
Georgia
Sour Plum
Ტყემალი
A small sour plum picked green in spring and red later, used for sauce, fruit leather and the spring lamb stew rather than eaten raw.
Georgia
Spicy Veal Stew
Ჩაშუშული
Veal or beef stewed with tomato, onion, garlic, coriander and hot pepper until the sauce thickens around the meat. Ostri is a sharper restaurant-style name for the same spicy tomato-and-beef stew.
Georgia
Sulguni
Სულგუნი
A pulled-curd brined cheese, elastic and salty when young, sold as flat discs and also smoked to a golden brown.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Svan Meat Bread
Კუბდარი
A mountain bread stuffed with hand-chopped pork or beef, onion and the highland spice blend, sealed and baked.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Svan Salt
Სვანური მარილი
Coarse salt pounded with garlic, blue fenugreek, coriander, marigold, dill seed and hot pepper, used on everything from potatoes to grilled meat.
Kutaisi, Georgia
Tarragon Soda
Ტარხუნა
A bright green carbonated drink flavoured with tarragon, sweet and faintly aniseed, sold across the Caucasus since the 19th century.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Tashmijabi
Თაშმიჯაბი
A Svanetian dish of mashed potatoes blended with Imeretian cheese until stretchy, served with a well of melted butter, also called 'Svan elarji'.
Georgia
Tatara
Ტატარა
A Georgian dessert of grape must thickened with cornflour or flour, served warm or set cold, similar to pelamushi but often eaten softer.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi Khinkali
Კალაქური ხინკალი
The city version of the pleated dumpling: minced pork and beef with onion, garlic and coriander, twisted into a thick knot and boiled.
Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia
Tenili Cheese
Ტენილი ყველი
A Meskhetian sheep's milk cheese stretched into very thin threads and braided, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage product from Samtskhe-Javakheti.
Georgia
Tkemali
Ткемали
A thin sour sauce of wild plums cooked down with garlic, coriander, dill and pennyroyal, green when made from unripe fruit in spring and red later in the year.
Georgia
Tomato and Cucumber Salad with Walnut
Ქართული სალათი
Ripe tomato and cucumber in rough chunks with onion, coriander and either walnut paste or just oil and salt.
Kakheti, Georgia
Tsinandali
Წინანდალი
A Georgian white wine from Tsinandali in Kakheti, blended from Rkatsiteli and Mtsvane.
Georgia
Turkey in Walnut Sauce
Საცივი
Satsivi is poached poultry served cold under a thick Georgian walnut sauce seasoned with garlic, coriander seed, marigold and vinegar.
Georgia
Vegetable and Walnut Pâtés
Ფხალი
Blanched spinach, beetroot leaf, cabbage or nettle chopped fine and bound with ground walnut, garlic, vinegar and herbs, shaped into balls. Beet pkhali is one familiar vegetable form among the wider family of walnut-and-herb preparations.
Georgia
Walnut Sauce
Ბაჟე
Ground walnuts thinned with water or stock and seasoned with garlic, coriander seed, marigold and vinegar, served cold over poultry and fish.