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Satsivi

საცივი

Original: Satsivi

Transliteration · satsivi

Walnut sauces appear across the Caucasus and into Persian and Levantine kitchens. Connections are listed as associations, not ownership.

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Where it is recorded

  • Tbilisi

Communities associated

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  • Georgian

Occasions

  • Wedding

Ingredients

  • Pomegranate · رمان, ბროწეული
  • Walnut · جوز, ნიგოზი

Techniques

  • Walnut sauce. Ground walnuts loosened with broth or spices, served warm or cold.

People

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Stories

Walnut sauce for a wedding

Satsivi must cool. That is the whole argument of the dish. Nino grinds walnuts until they become a paste that can stand a spoon, then loosens it with the broth of the bird, garlic, marigold, a little cinnamon. Pomegranate seeds at the end, because the eye has to eat too. She learned it from her aunt, who learned it for a wedding in Kakheti. Whether the sauce is older than the wedding or the wedding older than the sauce is not a question this kitchen asks. A visiting cousin from Yerevan said the walnuts reminded her of a stuffing at home. Nino nodded. Mountains talk to each other, she said, even when people do not.

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Connections

  • Related dish · Recorded connection

    Ghapama

    A whole pumpkin stuffed with rice, dried fruit, and nuts, opened at the new year in the Petrosian kitchen.

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