Phali in Georgian - 8 recipes

Phali in Georgian is a whole collection of traditional dishes that differ in a variety of options.

The dish is simple, but it introduces many useful ingredients into the diet:

• beetroot leaves;
• fresh spinach;
• young shoots of nettle;
• bean pods;
• cabbage leaves.

 

Considering that the products are subject to minimal heat, after cooking they retain their beneficial properties,

Beetroot Phali in Georgian

To prepare you will need:

• a pair of garlic cloves;
• 150 g of walnuts, walnuts
• 20 ml wine vinegar, 6%
• one medium table beet
• 50 g of green mixture (parsley, green onion, dill and cilantro)
• salt;
• spices for choice

 

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cook the beets.
2. Cook the walnut kernels. Sort through. They must be thoroughly cleaned so that nothing
   an outsider.
3. Place the selected nuts in a blender bowl and add the herbs and garlic to them. Grind at high speed.
   You should get a mushy mixture.
4. Cut the beets and load into the blender bowl to the nut-green mixture. Grind again and put in a bowl with
   deep edges.
5. Add vinegar there, season with ground pepper. Put salt to taste. Shuffle.
6. Now you can form balls of medium size or give the dish an oval shape. You can decorate the serving plate with lettuce leaves and put your creation on them.

Bon Appetit!

Fresh or frozen spinach

To cook phali in Georgian spinach you need to take:

• 0.4 kg of spinach (fresh or ice cream);
• 60 g of nuts, walnuts;
• pomegranate seeds;
• 40 g of green adjika;

 

For green adjika you need:

• 10 g of cilantro;
• 10 g of garlic;
• 4 g hot chili;
• 10 g of parsley;
• 5 g of ready-made sunli hops.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Remove the spinach from the freezer; it should thaw completely.
2. Sort the nuts carefully. Put them in a blender and grind.
3. Now you need to cook green adjika. Transfer the ground nuts to another bowl, and put in the blender all the required ingredients and bring to uniformity. Adjika is ready.
4. In order to proceed to the main part of the preparation of the phali from spinach - spinach must be thawed, squeeze out excess moisture and cut. If for cooking you prefer to take a non-frozen product, then you must allow it.
5. Scroll through a meat grinder or beat in a blender.
6. Add to the spinach, cooked earlier, green adjika, chopped nuts.
7. Mix well.
8. It remains only to form balls of not very large size and decorate them with pomegranate kernels. Place the resulting balls on a dish.
9. The dish is served on the table, adding chopped onions and parsley to it.

Bon Appetit!

Cooking from Green Beans

For a dish you will need:

• 60 g of young pods;
• garlic clove;
• salt;
• 60 g of nuts, walnuts;
• pomegranate seeds;
• pepper.

 

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Sort the pods, cut off the tips, remove, if any, the central vein.
2. Pour water. Boil the pods in it. You need to do this until soft.
3. Drain the liquid using a colander. Wait for all the water to drain.
4. Pods placed in dishes with deep edges.
5. Pour chopped cilantro into the pods using a press, squeeze the garlic in them, add the pre-chopped nuts.
6. Add salt and pepper to the phali. Make it to your liking.
7. Mix well.
8. Hands make up balls. Place them on a flat plate to serve guests. Add pomegranate seeds to each ball on top.

Eggplant platter

To prepare you will need:

• 500 g eggplant;
• 80 ml of oil, lean;
• large onion;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• 120 g kernels of nuts, walnuts;
• a bunch of cilantro;
• 3 g whole grains of coriander;
• uso-suneli
• 3 g Imereti saffron
• 15 ml red, 6%, wine vinegar
• a glass of water, 200 ml;
• salt;
• pomegranate seeds;
• chili pod

 

Order of preparation:

1. Peel the eggplant skin, cut into circles.
2. Chop the onion into cubes.
3. Fry onion with eggplant in a pan with butter until soft.
4. Grind nuts, cilantro and garlic, scroll them in a meat grinder.
5. Mix spices and a tablespoon of wine vinegar.
6. Pour water in portions, mix well.
7. Add the resulting mixture to the eggplant.
8. Season with coriander, add chopped chili to taste.
9. Make neatly shaped balls out of the mixture. Put in a flat salad bowl. Garnish the phali with cilantro leaves and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

Bon Appetit!

White cabbage

To prepare, you will need:

• head of cabbage;
• 30 g cilantro;
• 3-5 garlic cloves;
• 300 g nuts, walnuts;
• 90 g of onions;
• 5-6 g of coriander;
• 5-6 g suneli hops;
• salt;
• 20 ml of 6% vinegar, wine;
• ground pepper;
• pomegranate seeds.

 

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cut the cabbage with a sharp knife into medium-sized pieces, boil for 5 minutes. Cabbage leaves should retain a crisp texture.
2. Drain all the water through a colander and let the cabbage cool.
3. Crank nuts, cilantro, garlic and onions. This can be done using a meat grinder or a blender.
4. Add spices, vinegar and salt. Make it to your taste and in accordance with individual preferences.
5. Take a meat grinder of any design. Pass the cooled cabbage through it. Make sure that all excess water from it is glass, otherwise the finished dish may turn out to be watery.
6. Combine and mix everything.
7. Send the mixture for Phali for two hours in the cold, after adding pomegranate seeds.
8. You can use it spreading on bread (pita bread) or as an independent dish.
9. If you decide to arrange as a separate dish, then before serving, neat meatballs are formed from the cooled mixture, and only then they are decorated with pomegranate.

Bon Appetit!

Unusual nettle recipe with ginger

To prepare you will need:

• 100 g of young nettle shoots;
• 100 g of peeled walnut kernels;
• 15 g of ginger root;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• onion head;
• a small bunch of cilantro;
• spices to taste (chili pepper, paprika, coriander);
• sesame;
• 20 ml of fresh juice from lemon.

 

Cooking process:

1. Separate the nettle leaves from the shoots and rinse them under the tap.
2. Pour water into a pan, heat to a boil.
3. For 5 minutes put the nettle in boiling water.
4. Fold the leaves in a colander and wait for all the liquid to drain.
5. Kill the nettle with a mixer or blender in a puree.
6. Add grated ginger root, chopped cilantro, onion and nuts, and garlic through a press.
7. Season with lemon juice and spices.
8. To stir thoroughly.
9. From the resulting substance, mold the balls and sprinkle with white or black sesame seeds.

The dish is ready!

Phali with red beans

To prepare you will need:

• 500 g of red beans;
• 100 g peeled walnuts;
• 30 g cilantro;
• salt;
• 1 tsp dry hops-suneli mixture;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1/2 tsp Paprika
• 40 ml of lemon juice;
• ground pepper, black based on your taste preferences;
• pomegranate seeds.

Cooking process:

1. Soak the beans overnight in water. In the morning, drain this water and, pouring a new one, salt and boil the beans until tender.
2. Beans, mashed potatoes. To make it easier, when draining the water, you can leave a little liquid in the pan.
3. Add pepper and ready-made mixture of hops-suneli, paprika, garlic, passed through a press. Salt to taste. Mix everything thoroughly.
4. Season the phali with lemon juice.
5. Pour ground walnuts and finely chopped cilantro into the mixture. Stir again.
6. With wet hands, form nests in the middle of which lay pomegranate seeds.

Bean phali can be served!

From beet tops and greens

To prepare you will need:

• 300 g of young tops;
• 300 g of young cabbage;
• 300 g spinach;
• a large bunch of cilantro;
• 100 walnuts;
• 2 tablespoons;
• 15 g of garlic;
• 20 ml of vinegar, 6%, white, wine;
• ½ tsp coriander
• ½ tsp ready mix uchi-suneli
• salt;
• ground pepper, black;
• pomegranate kernels

Cooking process:

1. Pour cold water into a suitable saucepan and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat and boil the previously washed tops, cabbage and spinach for about five minutes.
2. Take a colander. Use it to drain the liquid. Allow it to drain completely.
3. When the contents have cooled, squeeze out the remaining water with your hands.
4. Choose a suitable deep bowl. Using a meat grinder of any design, pass through it into a bowl nuts, cilantro, cloves of garlic and onions.
5. In the same bowl, finish off all the spices, salt and pepper.
6. Stir the resulting nut mixture thoroughly until smooth.
7. Also grind squeezed greens with a meat grinder and mix it with a nut mixture. Add a few drops of wine vinegar.
8. Blind identical meatballs and sprinkle with pomegranate kernels.