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Georgian food: Ojakhuri recipe

Today it was not me who cooked but Priya. She made us a dish that her mom from Georgia often makes: Ojakhuri.

Yeah ok, the photo is not very instagramable but god it was so good!

Important:

What gives all its flavor to this recipe is a sauce called Adjika in Georgian that you can find in Turkish grocery stores under the name of Acuka. If you can’t find one, you can do it yourself:

Adjika recipe :

INGREDIENTS

  • 3 tbsp tomato puree
  • 2 tbsp sweet pepper concentrate
  • 5 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 3 tbsp ground walnuts
  • 2 tbsp breadcrumbs
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 2 crushed garlic cloves
  • 1 pinch of pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. in a saucepan, cook the tomato concentrate and the pepper concentrate for 3 minutes.
  2. add the garlic, lemon juice, and all the other ingredients, mixing as you add them.
  3. you must obtain a kind of fairly compact dough
  4. let cool before serving. Store in the refrigerator.

If you have any left over, you can eat it as an aperitif tapenade.

Ojakhuri recipe:

Ingredients:

  • Sunflower oil
  • 3 tbs adjika
  • 500g of cooked meat, here there was a rest of roosted chicken (for a vegan version use 1kg mushrooms)
  • 1kg potatoes cut into bite-sized dices
  • 1 medium red onion
  • 2 roasted and peeled red bell peppers cut into strips
  • 1 tomato cut into dices
  • 4-5 cloves of garlic smashed and peeled.

Instructions:

  1. In a large bowl, brown the garlic and the onion then the potatoes in the oil.
  2. When they begin to brown, add the shredded meat or cut into bite-size pieces (if they are mushrooms, cut them into 4), add the tomato and the peppers.
  3. Once the potatoes are well cooked, add the adjika and then serve.

I hope you enjoy this dish as much as I do. It was a great discovery. See you soon!