Sauce Tkemali

Sauce Tkemali If you like Georgian cuisine, and the spicy, fragrant tkemali sauce in particular, you can cook it yourself. It does not matter that it is difficult to find cherry plum or real red plums-tkemali. If you are not a pedantic, not an adherent of strict adherence to the classical formula, you can use any plums - those that grow in your dacha or are sold on the market in season at ridiculous prices. Tkemali sauce is perfectly stored in the refrigerator, even if you do not add vinegar to it, it will stay in the glass jar for at least a month. But a freshly prepared sauce is much tastier, or one that is not more than three or four days old. If not laziness, you can prepare plums for tkemali sauce for a whole year: wash, dry, remove pits and freeze in portions in the freezer. As for the spices, then focus on your taste. Garlic and hot pepper are mandatory, and you can add herbs depending on their availability and their desire. Many do not like the smell and taste of cilantro, but in the tkemali sauce they are almost not felt. If you've never tried this sauce, then be sure to prepare. Perhaps it will be your favorite and will replace the store ketchups of poisonous color and suspicious composition.

Sauce Tkemali If you like Georgian cuisine, and the spicy, fragrant tkemali sauce in particular, you can cook it yourself. It does not matter that it is difficult to find cherry plum or real red plums-tkemali. If you are not a pedantic, not an adherent of strict adherence to the classical formula, you can use any plums - those that grow in your dacha or are sold on the market in season at ridiculous prices. Tkemali sauce is perfectly stored in the refrigerator, even if you do not add vinegar to it, it will stay in the glass jar for at least a month. But a freshly prepared sauce is much tastier, or one that is not more than three or four days old. If not laziness, you can prepare plums for tkemali sauce for a whole year: wash, dry, remove pits and freeze in portions in the freezer. As for the spices, then focus on your taste. Garlic and hot pepper are mandatory, and you can add herbs depending on their availability and their desire. Many do not like the smell and taste of cilantro, but in the tkemali sauce they are almost not felt. If you've never tried this sauce, then be sure to prepare. Perhaps it will be your favorite and will replace the store ketchups of poisonous color and suspicious composition.

Ingredients:

• Plum 1000 g
• Pepper spicy 1 pc.
• Garlic 2 cloves
• Cilantro fresh 1 bunch
• Sugar 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt 1 tbsp. l.

Instructions

• Step 1 To prepare the sauce you need plums (better acid varieties), hot peppers, a bunch of cilantro, garlic, salt and sugar.
• Step 2 Wash the plums and then peel them.
• Step 3 Prepared plums to grind in a blender in a homogeneous mass.
• Step 4 A large bunch of cilantro is well washed and finely chopped.
• Step 5 2 Medium cloves of garlic peel and finely chop. Sharp pepper, remove seeds and cut small.
• Step 6 Grind the plums into a pan and add 1 tbsp. l. sugar and salt, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes from the time of boiling.
• Step 7 Then add cilantro, garlic and hot pepper - cook all together for 1-2 minutes. Add, if necessary, more salt or sugar to taste.
• Step 8 Cool the sauce.