At the words “Georgian salad”, a Russian person associates with a huge amount of spicy greens, fresh vegetables, various sauces with nuts and pomegranate seeds, as well as with Suluguni or Adygea cheese and olives. But no one will give you a clear single recipe. And this is right, because there are so many salads in Georgia. And they all have an amazing taste and a huge selection of vitamins.
Below are a few recipes that Georgian cuisine is especially famous for . Salads can be purely vegetarian, as well as meat. For each recipe you can submit your favorite sauce - both authentic, Caucasian, and your favorite. So, let's begin.
№ 1. Georgian kebab salad
Peel two sweet peppers (ideally red and yellow) from seeds and cut together with two tomatoes and two cucumbers into slices. One hundred or a little more grams of Suluguni cheese is cut into cubes. Lettuce leaves should be washed and torn by hand. In a deep bowl we put leaves and vegetables, we throw pitted black olives (whole) and finely chopped herbs: basil, cilantro, dill. The amount of the last ingredients is chosen based on our own preferences. Season the dish with olive oil with a few sprays of balsamic vinegar. It is perfectly washed down with "Khvanchkara".
No. 2. Georgian salad with nut dressing
We cut three cucumbers and onions into circles, and three tomatoes into large slices. Put in a bowl. Blue basil and mint with any other herbs, to your taste, manually chopped on top of vegetables. In a blender, grind 40-50 g of walnut kernels, an incomplete teaspoon of salt, red pepper on the tip of a knife and chopped 2-3 cloves of garlic. Put the nut mixture in a separate bowl, add 2 tablespoons of wine vinegar and dilute with water so that the sauce has the consistency of liquid sour cream. 10-15 minutes before serving mix salad with sauce so that all ingredients have time to mix well.
№ 3. Georgian salad "Traditional"
Tomatoes for this dish (3 pieces) are cut into cubes. 200 grams of smoked sausage is cut into strips, and 100-150 g of hard cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater. Squeeze two cloves of garlic into a total mass, mix and let stand for 10 minutes. After that, season with mayonnaise mixed with fresh herbs to your taste. You can decorate such a cute dish with seeds.
pomegranate and basil leaves. For lovers of spices, you can use tarragon grass along with fresh herbs. But getting it on the shelves of our food markets is problematic.
№ 4. Hearty Georgian salad with beef
Due to its calorie content, it can be served as an independent dish as a cold dinner. 400 grams of beef tenderloin need to be boiled with herbs, cool and cut into small cubes. Boil two carrots in a peel and cut into circles. Fry 300 grams of mushrooms and chop coarsely. Add 300 g canned peas, 3-4 cloves of garlic squeezed under a press, a bunch of spicy greens. In a separate bowl we make the sauce: mix a jar of mayonnaise with 50 g of Tkemali, add a handful of ground walnuts, mix. Dressing our salad with sauce. Serve it only with pita bread or bread. Beef can be replaced with smoked chicken.