Chanakhi - known Georgian dish that is cooked in different other countries. This dish is like any other Oriental dish has a very rich and spicy taste, sharp aftertaste and incredible flavor. Chanakhi is a very rich dish, as it includes such ingredients as potatoes, meat, beans, carrot, onion, garlic and flour. To prepare it easily, but you need to know a few secrets in the trade that we will share with you in this article.
The first step to cooking vats is a choice of meat - one of the main ingredients. For the preparation of traditional vats used lamb, but as we prepare a salad with chicken and rice, will use pork or beef. It is best to take a neck or loin. First we cut the meat into large cubes, then lay out on a hot griddle and fry until Golden brown. Also, when fried, the meat can add to it various spices, namely, black and red pepper, turmeric, petals, paprika, coriander.
The next stage of cooking, we put the cooked meat in a pot (for cooking vats, it is important to use cookware with a thick bottom) and cover with boiling water for further cooking. When preparing our meat, we fry the potatoes in the same pan, where was roasting meat. After I fried the potatoes, we put it to the meat in our skillet. To the meat and potatoes add diced onion and carrots and cooked beans, all carefully cooked sprinkle with salt and leave for about half an hour. A little advice: try as much as possible to mix the dish so that the potatoes remained intact.
The third step is the preparation of flour for our meals. The sifted flour is sent in a hot pan with butter and fry it until brown approximately 5 minutes. Be sure to thoroughly stir the flour, so as not to overheat. Stir fried flour with a little water and add to canham to the skillet, followed by the flour, we add some tomato paste and plenty of garlic. After we added the final ingredients, bring to readiness chanakhi and potseluem if needed.
They can be served in a bowl or in a loaf of bread, previously dried in the oven. Before serving, sprinkle the Chens chopped parsley or cilantro.