Tsakhton Sauce
A sauce from Ossetian cooking that's tender and spicy all at once. Tsakhton isn't just for meat — spoon it over pasta and you'll discover a whole new side to an everyday dish.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather all your ingredients.
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Step 2:
Spoon the sour cream into a deep bowl. Wash and chop the cilantro and stir it into the sour cream.
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Step 3:
Peel the garlic and press it through a garlic press (or grate it on a fine grater).
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Step 4:
Wash and dry the walnuts, then grind them fine (in a blender, coffee grinder, with a pestle, or however you like).
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Step 5:
Stir in the garlic, then add the walnuts and stir again.
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Step 6:
Add a very finely chopped piece of fresh hot pepper (about 1 inch / 3 cm) and a scant pinch of ground red pepper. Stir to combine.
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Step 7:
And there's our wonderful Tsakhton sauce. Pour it into a serving dish.
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Step 8:
Serve it with meat, pasta, cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers, dolma, and more. Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black Walnut English Walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Black Persian Walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Hot capsicum - 40 kcal/100g
- Ground red pepper - 318 kcal/100g
- Coriander greens - 25 kcal/100g
