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Chanakhi

Georgian traditional cuisine uses clay pots and pans - ketsi - to cook whole variety of dishes. Chanakhi is one of those meals that should be prepared in a clay pot. Try to cook each portion separately and do not use lean meat! The flavor, aromas, juice, meat - everything about Chanakhi is extraordinary. Make everyone happy cooking a delicious family dinner once again.

This recipe serves 6:
2 lb lamb chops
4 large boiling potatoes
6 (italian) eggplants
6 tomatoes
1 cup chopped basil
1 cup chopped cilantro
1 cup chopped parsley
2-3 cloves of garlic
2 medium chopped onions
black pepper
salt and hot pepper to taste
1 - Preheat the oven to 350'F. Saparate fat from the lamb and keep it for stuffing.
2 - Put the pices of lamb on the bottom of the clay pot and add salt and black pepper.
3 - Mix basil, parsley, onions, garlic well and stuff eggplants.
4 - Mince the fat and put it into the stuffed eggplants. 1-2 tablespoons of fat will be enough.
5 - Put the layer of eggplants on top of meat and add salt and pepper.
6 - Cut potatoes in half and put them on top of eggplants.
7 - Cover potatoes with the layer of tomatoes and stuffing.
8 - Add salt, pepper, cover it and put into the oven.
9 - Cook aproximately for an hour and half. Serve with Flat Georgian bread and goat cheese.


"I have a big family. When you are a stay-at-home mother, you learn how to handle everything. Cooking is not only some duty, but it is a great pleasure as well. My husband and children used to like my recipes. It does not matter where I cook Chanakhi: in the oven or on the stove, it always will be our favorite meal, a very tasty, nutritious dinner. "

- Liana (Tbilisi) -

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