How much to cook chikhirtma?

Cook Chikhirtma for 1 hour.

How to cook chikhirtma

Products
For a saucepan 3 liters
Chicken thighs - 2 pieces
Onions - 2 heads
Plain flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Chicken egg - 4 pieces
Saffron - 2 tablespoons
Apple or wine vinegar - 2 tablespoons
Salt - 1 teaspoon
Cilantro - 1 bunch
Ground black pepper - a few peas
Salt - 1 tablespoon

How to cook chikhirtma
1. Defrost the chicken, wash and place in a saucepan.
2. Pour 2 liters of water over the chicken and put on fire.
3. Season the broth with salt and pepper, cook the chicken for 30 minutes, then put out of the pan, cool, separate from the bones and return the meat to the pan.
4. Peel and finely chop the onions.
5. Preheat a skillet, pour in vegetable oil and put onions in a skillet.
6. Fry the onion for 5 minutes, then sprinkle evenly with flour and stir, fry for another 3 minutes.
7. Pour the chicken broth through a sieve into a bowl and return back to the pot to keep the broth pitted.
8. Put the saucepan on fire, add onions, spices, vinegar and cook for 2 minutes.
9. Break the eggs into a bowl, beat and pour into the soup in a thin stream.
10. Wash cilantro, dry and chop finely.

When serving chikhirtma, sprinkle with cilantro.

Fusofacts

- Wheat flour can be replaced with corn and buckwheat.

- Chikhirtma is a Georgian soup.

- Vinegar is added to chikhirtma so that the eggs are evenly distributed in the broth and give it a pleasant thickness.

- When cooking chikhirtma, vinegar can be replaced with lemon or pomegranate juice (3-4 tablespoons).

- Chikhirtma is boiled for 1 sitting, as the eggs in the soup are practically raw. Chikhirtma will only be stored for a few hours.

- In the classic recipe, not the whole chicken egg is often used, but only whipped yolks.

- Additionally, coriander, mint and cinnamon can be used as spices for chikhirtma.

Take a look more soupshow to cook them and cooking time!

November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

Reading time - 2 minutes.
How much to cook › Soups › Chikhirtma