Satsivi Sauce

One of the best recipes in Georgian cuisine — the perfect thing for the table! I love making satsivi sauce to go with meat dishes; it gives them a refined flavor and aroma. If you'd like to try it, just follow these simple steps.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 17 % 7 g
Fats 64 % 27 g
Carbohydrates 19 % 8 g
286 kcal
GI: 75 / 0 / 25

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    The ingredients.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Wash and dry the onion, then finely chop the onion and garlic.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Melt the butter.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Add the finely chopped onion and garlic.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Sauté over medium heat.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Stir the flour into the sautéed onion.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Chicken broth.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Pour the chicken broth into the sautéed onion.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Add a bay leaf and the cloves and simmer well.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Grind the walnuts in a meat grinder.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11

    Finely chop the fresh herbs.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12

    Add the spices to the chopped nuts and herbs (you can also add khmeli-suneli, a Georgian spice blend, to taste) and mix.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13

    Stir the egg yolks into the nut-and-spice mixture.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14

    Boil the wine vinegar.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15

    Add the boiled wine vinegar to the nut mixture.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16

    Stir the nut mixture well.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17

    Add the nut mixture to the sautéed onion.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18

    Heat the assembled sauce over moderate heat, stirring constantly. Do not let it come to a boil! And the sauce is ready.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19

    If you like, you can stir boiled chicken into the sauce.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20

    The sauce with chicken can be served as a dish on its own.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21

    Or serve the chicken in satsivi as a main dish over a side of your choice.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • 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
  • Carnation - 323  kcal/100g
  • Cinnamon - 247  kcal/100g
  • Saffron - 310  kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Ground red pepper - 318  kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Coriander greens - 25  kcal/100g
  • White wine vinegar - 14  kcal/100g
  • Egg yolks - 352  kcal/100g
  • Chicken broth - 19  kcal/100g

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