Satsivi
The Georgian walnut sauce of the New Year table — walnuts ground with garlic, blue fenugreek and coriander and thinned with chicken stock into a pale, spiced cream, served cold over poached chicken or turkey.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 300 g shelled walnuts
- 500 ml homemade chicken stock
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
- 5 garlic cloves
- 2 tsp ground blue fenugreek (utskho suneli)
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp dried marigold petals (Imeretian saffron) or ground turmeric
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- to taste salt
Nutrition (estimated)
medium confidenceRecipe total: 3340 kcal · P 184.5g · C 74.4g · F 265.4g
Estimated from 12 of 13 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Cook the onions in the oil over medium-low heat for 10 minutes, until soft and translucent but not coloured.
- 2Grind the walnuts with the garlic in a food processor — or, traditionally, twice through a mincer — to a fine, oily paste. The finer the grind, the silkier the sauce.
- 3Add the blue fenugreek, ground coriander, marigold, cinnamon, cloves, cayenne and a little salt, then the onions, and grind again until smooth.
- 4Warm the stock and work it into the walnut paste a ladleful at a time, until the sauce has the thickness of double cream.
- 5Pour it into a pan and bring just to a simmer over low heat, stirring; cook for 5 minutes, no longer — boiling makes walnuts bitter and splits the sauce.
- 6Off the heat, stir in the vinegar and adjust the salt. The sauce thickens as it cools; loosen it with a little more stock if needed.
- 7Serve it cold or at room temperature, ideally the day after making, when the spices have settled. It keeps for three days in the fridge.
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Questions and answers
How long does Satsivi take to make?
About 40 minutes: 20 min prep and 20 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Satsivi?
13 ingredients: shelled walnuts, homemade chicken stock, onions, sunflower oil, garlic cloves, ground blue fenugreek, ground coriander, dried marigold petals or ground turmeric, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, cayenne pepper, white wine vinegar and 1 more.
How many servings does this Satsivi recipe make?
8 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Satsivi?
About 417 kcal, with 23.1 g protein, 9.3 g carbohydrate and 33.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Satsivi recipe suit?
It is gluten-free and dairy-free.
What cuisine is Satsivi?
Satsivi comes from Georgian cuisine.
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