Banir aghtsan / Bunyer Armenian Cottage Cheese Salad Serve in small bowls with pita bread. Serves 2 Ingredients: 1 cup cottage cheese 2 Tablespoons crumbled feta cheese 1 Tablespoon tomato paste 1...
Banir aghtsan / Bunyer Armenian Cottage Cheese Salad Serve in small bowls with pita bread. Serves 2 Ingredients: 1 cup cottage cheese 2 Tablespoons crumbled feta cheese 1 Tablespoon tomato paste 1...
Georgian Cheese Pie “Khachapuri” In the restaurants and khachapuri parlors of Georgia, the pie is made from a dough that combines local yogurt, eggs, and flour, or from yeast dough....
Here is a popular Azeri dish that we sampled several times, with both a meat filling and a spinach filling, during our visit to Azerbaijan. This recipe came from the...
Chakhokbili The name of this Georgian dish, chakhokbili, derives from the word khokhobi, which means “pheasant” in Georgian. But although this dish was evidently made with pheasant at one time,...
Strings of walnuts dipped in a fruit juice and flour paste, then hung to dry like candle.
Here is a quick Armenian recipe that will help you use up left over mashed potatoes! Or you can make your potatoes before hand. Enjoy! Sucmic KuftaPotato and Bulghur AppetizersServes...
Photo courtesy of Dona Malan Pkhali (the ‘kh’ is pronounced as a deep, guttural ‘h’) is a whole class of Georgian vegetable dishes that straddle the line between salad and dip....
This recipe is courtesy of the Tufenkian Hotel chain of Armenia, and it is served in their restaurants. It’s a great vegetarian dish, too. Enjoy! Cauliflower with tahini sauce Ingredients:...
To understand Syrian cuisine as it developed in Aleppo, a little history is necessary. Aleppo is ancient, but its roots are buried beneath a very modern city. Legend has it...
Here are a few photos from the Azerbaijan portion of our recent tour of the Caucasus.