26 Mar Hangover soup

Did you know that many Georgian soups help to overcome hangovers?

Today the dish of the week is “Chihirtma.” It’s a fine, thick soup. It heals you in a discreet and smart way. It brings back to life even those poor people who can’t move an arm or a leg.

Most often it is made with chicken, thickened with flour and flavored with lemon juice, which gives the dish a slight subtle sourness.

But the main ingredient of “Chikhirtma” is cilantro, perhaps the most respected spicy herb in Georgian cuisine.

The soup is quick to prepare and so tasty it has all the chances to “move in” into your family menu.

We got an actual culinary pleasure from Chihirtma in the Caucasian-Oriental restaurant Duhan in the center of Krasnodar.

To be a restaurant food expert means trying all the dishes yourself. We do these expert walks with tastings regularly.

And now, the recipe of the magical Georgian soup “Chikhirtma”:

Chicken – 500 gr.

Eggs – 3 pieces.

Lemon – 1.

Onion – 1.

Wheat flour – 3 tablespoons

Oil – 50 ml.

Fresh cilantro – 1 bunch

Water – 2,5 lt.

1. Cut the chicken into pieces, salt and boil it, adding the cilantro. Remove from the pot. Cool it down.
2. Finely chop the onion, saute in oil.
3. Whip the eggs with a whisk, adding the juice of the lemon.
4. Place the previously sauteed onion in a bowl. Toast the flour in a dry frying pan (it’s important not to overheat it!).
5. Pour 1 cup of chicken broth into the flour, stir with a whisk until all the lumps disappear.
6. Take the pot off the heat. Transfer to it the fried onions with the flour, boil everything for 5 minutes.
7. At this point pour in the eggs whipped with lemon juice. Stir, salt, remove from heat.
8. Separate the chicken meat from the bones. Add to the soup, sprinkle with finely chopped cilantro. Done!