How to cook chakhokhbili Georgian

If you want to cook chicken in a special way, we offer you the Georgian dish chakhokhbili.Stew with vegetables, it turns out very tender, flavorful and juicy.Cook the meat is easy.We offer traditional recipe chakhokhbili Georgian.

Recipe for

Spices, herbs and vegetables - are products without which no cost, Georgian cuisine.Recipes chakhokhbili can be offered with a variety of ingredients, but in any of them you will find mention of oriental spices and herbs.For today's food you need the following products:

  • large chicken (gutted) weighing about 2 kg;
  • 5-6 heads of medium-sized red onion;
  • ripe tomatoes - 5-6 fruits of medium size;
  • one red bell pepper;
  • one carrot of medium size;
  • few cloves of garlic;
  • the beam cilantro, green basil;
  • vegetable oil - about 100 grams;
  • bay leaf, adjika or hot red pepper, utsho-suneli, salt, black pepper.

Preparation chakhokhbili Georgian

1st step

chicken to cook until half.To do this, first wash the carcass, then place in 2 liters of boiling water.By the time it will take about 40 minutes.Then lay out the chicken from the broth, let it cool and cut into pieces with bones.The remaining broth.

Step 2

Use thick-walled pan or kettle.Preheat the dishes.Fat chicken can be cooked without oil, if a little fat, then pour in the cooking kettle.Make the fire stronger.Quickly fry on all sides of chicken pieces.They must be formed golden brown.

3rd step

Chop the onion into small cubes.Add it to the chicken.All stir and cook about 10 minutes.Onions should redden.

4th step

Bulgarian pepper clean: remove it from the seeds and partitions.Cut into thin slices.Carrot rub in using a coarse grater (you can not put in the dish at all).Put the peppers and carrots in a large kettle.Simmer over medium heat for about 5 minutes.Pour into a glass of vegetables and chicken broth.Kazan, cover with a lid and simmer the dish about 40 minutes.Chicken meat must be completely soft.

5th step

Tomatoes should be released from the skin.To do this at the top of each fruit crosswise incision.Dip the tomatoes in boiling water for a few seconds.Then remove - the skin should be easy to withdraw.Chop the tomatoes in a blender, or use the usual sieve.The resulting tomato puree put in a kettle, add fire to the average power.All stir and simmer chakhokhbili Georgian for a further 10 minutes.

Step 6

Finely chop the cilantro, chop the garlic.Put them in a mortar, sprinkle with coarse salt and mash into a homogeneous mass.It also is possible to use a blender.Add the cauldron.Finely chop the basil and put it to the chicken.There also send a pinch of seasoning utsho-suneli.Thrill suggested to add a little finely chopped hot pepper or adzhika.Put in a large kettle bay leaf.Put out another 10 minutes.Try chakhokhbili Georgian on salt.Then allow the authentic a few minutes.You can then submit.