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Chicken Kharcho Soup with Tkemali

A wonderfully tasty chicken soup recipe! Treat yourself and your family!

Arkady and SvetlanaAuthor avatar
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Chicken kharcho soup with tkemali
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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 36 % 9 g
Fats 40 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 24 % 6 g
142 kcal
GI: 83 / 0 / 17
  • Sometimes it pays to read the weather forecast in the daily paper — even if the weather lets you down, at least there might be a recipe printed right beside it. That's exactly how chicken kharcho with tkemali ended up in my recipe collection. I chop a fatty home-raised chicken into pieces, bones and all, and put it in a pot. Choose an older bird with a good layer of fat under the skin. Cover the meat with water and set it to cook. After about 45 minutes, when the chicken is nearly done but not yet fully tender, take it out of the broth and skim off some of the fat. Chop the onion as fine as you can and put it in a saucepan with the chicken pieces and the fat, thinned with a little broth. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes over low heat, then stir in the cornmeal and simmer another ten minutes. In a small amount of water, cook the tkemali — or simply sour wild plums — and press them, along with their cooking liquid, through a sieve as soon as they soften. To follow Georgian tradition to the letter, it really should be tkemali. Pit the plums before pressing them. Grind the walnut kernels with a mix of black pepper, allspice, and cinnamon, gradually pouring in warm chicken broth. Reheat the pot of broth (which has cooled by now), add the onion-braised chicken, and boil for about ten minutes, then add the pressed tkemali, the nut mixture, garlic, salt, cilantro, and bay leaf. Ten more minutes over moderate heat and the chicken kharcho with tkemali is ready to hit the bowls. Everyone digs in right away, thanks the cook, and — as a gesture of gratitude — does the dishes, sparing me that tedious chore. And that's how, to everyone's delight, this wonderful meal usually goes.

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

  • Category I chicken - 238  kcal/100g
  • Chicken of the II category - 159  kcal/100g
  • Chicken, flesh without skin - 241  kcal/100g
  • Chickens - 140  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
  • Cinnamon - 247  kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313  kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255  kcal/100g
  • Cherry plum - 27  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Coriander greens - 25  kcal/100g
  • Corn flour - 368  kcal/100g
  • Whole grain corn flour, unseeded - 355  kcal/100g
  • Whole grain corn flour sifted - 362  kcal/100g
  • Corn flour from grain with removed germs of vitamin E - 364  kcal/100g
  • Corn flour from grain with removed germs nevitaminiz - 364  kcal/100g
  • Allspice - 263  kcal/100g

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