No cuisine in the world can compete with the Caucasian in terms of sauces. These fragrant additions to dishes can be safely called the hallmark of Caucasian cuisine. One of the famous Caucasian sauces is zakhton sauce.
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You will need
- - sour cream - 250 ml
- - cilantro - 1 bunch
- - uzo-suneli, salt - to taste
- - garlic - 3 cloves
- - fresh hot pepper - to taste
Instruction manual
1
In general, tzachton is prepared from three ingredients. These are yogurt, cilantro and garlic. At the end of cooking, the sauce is salted and flavored with uchi-suneli. It is quite possible to replace matzoni with sour cream of 25% fat, and in addition to sauce, to add more piquancy, you can add red hot pepper and grated walnuts. Cilantro and garlic are essential and indispensable components. If you don’t like cilantro, still try making tzachton and you might love cilantro.
2
First prepare the garlic. It must be cleaned and ground with a very sharp knife or use a garlic press. Garlic should turn into gruel.
3
Next, with a sharp knife, very finely chop the washed green cilantro. You can even wipe all the ingredients with a blender again at the end of cooking.
4
Mix sour cream with cilantro and garlic. Add the pounded hot red pepper, optionally, salt the sauce and put the pounded in the uchi-suneli mortar. This spice is hard to find, as it is not sold in ordinary stores. You can search for ucho-suneli in the shop of oriental spices merchants in the market or, in extreme cases, replace the hops-suneli.
5
In order for the ingredients of the zakhton sauce to be better chopped, mixed and given their aromas, you can mix them again with a hand blender at the final stage of preparation.
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Now the sauce should be infused in a sealed container for at least 15 minutes. Some chefs recommend insisting tzakhton in the refrigerator, while others advise leaving the saucepan in a warm place. You can try to do so and so, in order to choose an acceptable option for yourself.
Zakhton sauce is served with fish or meat dishes, but for lovers, zakhton is good with bread, vegetables, and boiled potatoes.