Today, in any restaurant you can taste Georgian dishes, including such as canahs. The recipe for its preparation is quite simple, and therefore, having studied the secrets of its preparation, you will soon be able to please your family with a new dish.
Georgian national dishes are very peculiar and tasty. Residents of this southern republic use lamb and poultry meat for cooking. In addition, various spices and hot sauces are actively added to Georgian dishes.
At least once you try Georgian cuisine, you will become its adherent and admirer for many years, as all recipes are unique and unique. But the dish with the unusual name "chanahi" is considered a classic.
The word "chanakhi" in translation from Georgian is translated as "roast". The dish itself appeared in the fifteenth century. In those ancient times, it was made from lamb and potatoes. However, subsequently, the recipe began to change. Today, many housewives add vegetables such as carrots, onions, eggplant, tomatoes, greens, salt and ground pepper when cooking canahas. But each Georgian family has its own unique recipe for a chanakhi. The hostess passes family secrets of his cooking from generation to generation.
Now let's talk about how to make a canah and what ingredients are included in this wonderful dish.
Chanahi - the recipe for its preparation is quite simple. You will need the following products:
- four eggplants,
- two onions,
- two carrots,
- seven hundred grams of mutton,
- four tomatoes
- four potatoes,
- greens.
Rinse and peel all vegetables thoroughly. Cut the eggplants into small cubes, salt well and leave them in a sealed container so that all the bitterness is gone. Chop the meat into small pieces, tomatoes into medium cubes, and grate the carrots. Onions must be cut into small cubes.
Take clay pots and lay out slices of meat, chopped potatoes, onions, eggplant, carrots and tomatoes. Add some water to the pots. Cook in a pot at 185 degrees for two hours. 20 minutes before being ready, put one bay leaf and greens in pots.
The next recipe for this amazingly delicious canahi dish is no less simple than the previous one.
Take the following ingredients for chanahi:
- five hundred grams of mutton,
- two or three large potatoes,
- tomatoes or tomato paste,
- one hundred and fifty grams of eggplant,
- twenty grams of fat tail fat,
- one onion,
- cilantro,
- parsley
- one clove of garlic,
- pepper
- salt.
You can use one clay pot to prepare this dish. Put potatoes, chopped onions, small pieces of lamb, eggplant, tomatoes or tomato paste, fat tail fat, parsley, garlic and spices into it. Stew the dish until it is ready in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Modern housewives add beans and carrots to such a simple dish as canahi, the recipe of which we offer you. Previously, these foods were not part of the classic Canahi recipe. If you want to enjoy a truly authentic and classic dish, do not add these vegetables. When using fat tail fat, do not forget that it requires preliminary heat treatment. It should first be melted in a deep frying pan over low heat. Do not mix fat during warming. Lamb meat is best used young and lean.
We hope that with the help of our tips you can cook an incredibly tasty dish of Georgian cuisine - chanakhi. The recipe for this dish is simple, it is prepared quickly, and tender lamb in a pot of vegetables will appeal not only to you and your loved ones, but also to many friends and relatives whom you will certainly want to treat with an unusual meat dish.