Tkemali cherry plum yellow with garlic

A great sauce of classic Georgian cuisine with excellent taste. Cherry plum tkemali will serve you as a good gravy, especially with fried meat. The best solution for cooking tkemali will be to use yellow plums, but their more common relatives will also do.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 7 % 1 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 93 % 13 g
58 kcal
GI: 69 / 0 / 31

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    That's all we need. My little secret is that I learned how to cook tkemali even from canned cherry plum. In the season, canned cherry plum in its own juice, with a small addition of sugar is an excellent winter option for tkemali. Then the process of preparing the sauce is reduced, since cooking cherry plum is no longer needed.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    I free the canned cherry plum from the seeds. And with the help of a blender, I bring the mass to the desired consistency in a matter of seconds.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    That's basically the consistency. Which is not necessary to cook! I add spices to taste and warm them up, almost to the verge of boiling, stirring constantly. That's all. Remove from heat, add garlic passed through a garlic press. I let it cool down and put it in jars. As advised in the original recipe-you can add vinegar for long-term storage. I do not resort to this, since this sauce does not stagnate in our family. Who lacks sourness, you can add citric acid.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Voila, the sauce is ready. You can bottle it and store it until winter.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    The main assistant with the attribute.

How to cook tkemali from fresh cherry plum
We pass the cherry plum peeled from the bones through a meat grinder. For obvious reasons, there should be no bones in them at this moment.
The resulting mass is sugared, salted and subjected to boiling, which takes us five minutes. Chop the pepper, garlic, herbs, and add them to the boiling liquid along with the ground coriander. We need about five more minutes of cooking with boiling a mixture of the main ingredients.

As the boiling started, turn off the stove. Use tkemali in cold form. Use it immediately after cooling, or leave it for the future, it's up to you. If you choose the latter, pour 70% vinegar into the hot tkemali, calculated as half a spoonful per liter of tkemali. We pour the tkemali into jars and leave it to be stored in a dark place.

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

  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Hot capsicum - 40   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Coriander greens - 25   kcal/100g
  • Ground coriander - 25   kcal/100g
  • Yellow plums - 45   kcal/100g

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