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Who doesn't love barbecue! But the pleasure of juicy, smoky-smelling meat will not be complete unless it is seasoned with gravy. You can do with the usual ketchup. But real gourmets prefer meat cherry plum sauce... Purchased sauce is good. But cooked sauce tastes much better cherry plum tkemali at home. It bears the imprint of the individuality of the hostess, since every family has its own recipe for cherry plum tkemali. The spices loved by the whole family are added to it, so its taste is individual.
How to cook tkemali? Cherry plum or tkemali, or splayed plum - the sister of a common plum. It has small fruits that can be green, yellow and red. Unlike the large-fruited Russian plum, it grows mainly in the south. There she is found even in the wild. In the Caucasus, tkemali is the basis of the famous sauce that bears the same name.
In Russia, housewives are increasingly using these fruits to prepare tkemali from cherry plums for winter. There are a lot of recipes for cherry plum sauce. But the basis for them is always a classic, time-tested recipe for tkemali cherry plum sauce.
It is prepared from fruits of different colors, and in each case the recipe will be slightly different. For a yellow cherry plum sauce, fresh greens are more suitable, for red - dried, and green goes well with any.
Green tkemali
It is made from unripe plum, which has not yet acquired its natural color.
For cooking you need:
- unripe cherry plum - 2.5 kg;
- garlic - 2 heads;
- hot pepper - 1 pc .;
- salt, sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon;
- water - so that the cherry plum is covered;
- coriander seeds - 2 tsp;
- fresh greens - basil, dill - 100 g.
We wash the fruits, fill with water, boil for 20 minutes.
Wipe the finished product through a sieve, after draining the broth. Using a blender, grind the coriander, add salt, add garlic, chopped herbs and bring to a homogeneous state. Mix with cherry plum, season with hot pepper, cook for about 3 minutes. Pour the prepared sauce into small sterile jars. Hermetically sealed, it keeps well in the refrigerator throughout the winter if not eaten early.
You can make tkemali green sauce according to a different recipe.
Green tkemali with adjika
It is prepared only with dry herbs, chopped cilantro is added directly when serving.
Sauce products:
- green cherry plum - 2 kg;
- adjika - 20 ml;
- salt - 2 tsp;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- garlic - 10 cloves;
- dry dill - 20 g;
- dry tarragon - 2 tsp;
- dry adjika - 2 tsp;
- ground coriander - 10 g;
- dry mint - 2 tsp.
It grows only in the south, so most housewives have to be content with ordinary dried mint. Be careful when adding it to avoid ruining the dish.
Fill the washed fruits with water so that it covers them. Boil them until soft. This will take approximately 10 minutes. Drain the broth and rub through a sieve. Add salt, all dry ingredients, sugar and chopped garlic, adjika to the resulting puree. Stir well and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes more.
Pour boiling tkemali into small sterilized dishes and seal tightly.
Yellow tkemali
Prepared from ripe yellow plums. We add only fresh herbs. The following products are needed for the sauce:
- yellow cherry plum - 1.5 kg;
- cilantro - 150 g;
- dill - 125 g. We use only the stems;
- mint - 125 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- hot pepper - 1 pod;
- sugar - a tablespoon without a slide.
Pour the washed cherry plum with a glass of water, cook until soft, which takes about 20 minutes. Wipe the strained fruits through a sieve.
In the resulting puree, place the dill stalks, collected in a bunch, salt and hot pepper. Simmer the mixture over low heat for half an hour. The mixture can burn easily, so you need to stir it very often.
While the mixture is cooking, mix the rest of the herbs with the garlic and grind with a blender, add to the cherry plum puree and cook on a low flame for another quarter of an hour.
Pour the boiling sauce into sterile dishes. You can roll it up hermetically, or you can fill it with refined oil, close the lids and store in the refrigerator.
Yellow tkemali is also prepared according to another recipe. There is much more garlic here, the capsicum is replaced with red ground pepper, from the greens - only cilantro and dill.
Yellow tkemali without mint
The cherry plum fruits in this sauce recipe are pitted even before boiling. Required products:
- yellow cherry plum - 3 kg;
- garlic - 375 g;
- ground hot pepper - 15 g;
- cilantro and dill - 450 g;
- salt - 4-6 tbsp. spoons.
We free the washed fruits from the seeds, cover them with salt. When the cherry plum starts up the juice, cook it for about half an hour. The fruit should be soft.
Wipe the finished fruits through a sieve.
Cook until the sauce thickens. You need to stir very often. Grind the garlic along with the herbs and add to the puree, at the same time add the red pepper. It remains to boil the sauce for another 5 minutes and pack it in a dry sterile container. Hermetically sealed, it should be wrapped for a day, turning the lids upside down.
The following sauce recipe contains such a rare ingredient as fennel. The taste and smell of anise and dill, inherent in fennel, in combination with mint and a considerable amount of garlic, forms a special unusual taste of this tkemali sauce.
Tkemali with fennel
It can be prepared from both green and yellow cherry plum.
Products for tkemali:
- green or yellow cherry plum - 2.5 kg;
- fresh cilantro - 1 bunch;
- coriander - 1.5 tsp;
- fresh fennel - a small bunch;
- mint and dill - 1 bunch each;
- garlic - 15 cloves;
- salt - Art. the spoon;
- water - 0.5 tbsp.;
- add pepper and sugar to taste.
Cook the cherry plum by adding water until it becomes soft. Wipe the fruits together with the broth through a sieve. Grind the coriander, grind the herbs and garlic with a blender, add everything to the boiling puree, season with salt, pepper and, if necessary, sugar. Cook the sauce for about half an hour, stirring all the time.
We pack the boiling sauce in sterile bottles or small jars, roll it up hermetically and warm it for a day.
Red tkemali
No less tasty is the sauce made from ripe red cherry plum fruits. It has a rich color and one of its kind awakens the appetite. The addition of tomatoes makes it unique.
Ripe red cherry plum is suitable for him. Apple cider vinegar combined with honey makes this sauce not only delicious, but also very healthy.
Required products:
- cherry plum red - 4 kg;
- tomatoes - 1 kg;
- water - 2 tbsp.;
- mint - 8 branches;
- hot pepper - 2 pcs.;
- garlic - 12 cloves;
- coriander - 60 g;
- sugar - 12 tbsp. spoons;
- apple cider vinegar - 4 tsp;
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - 4 tbsp. spoons.
We begin the preparation of the sauce by freeing the cherry plum from the seeds. Cook it with the addition of water for about 10 minutes. Wipe through a sieve.Simmer mashed potatoes over low heat, adding herbs chopped in a meat grinder, garlic, pepper, tomatoes. Season with honey, apple cider vinegar, salt and sugar, add ground coriander. Boil for another 7-10 minutes, stirring constantly.
We pack the prepared boiling sauce in a sterile container and seal it tightly.
Tkemali sauce goes well not only with meat or fish. Even ordinary sausages will become much tastier with it. Pasta or potatoes seasoned with tkemali will become a delicious dish. It's good and just spread on bread. A lot of herbs, garlic and hot spices make this sauce very healthy. If there is no way to buy cherry plum, you can cook it from unsweetened plums. It will not taste worse.
