Chakhokhbili - Georgian chicken stew in an unusual sauce! It is prepared from a variety of products and get amazing, rich and fragrant dishes. Simplify the process and turn cooking into a pleasure will help the slow cooker.
Chahokhbili from a chicken in a multicooker - general principles of cooking
For chakhokhbili most often use the whole bird carcass, which is then chopped into pieces. But there are recipes just breast. Fillet dish is less fatty and less saturated.
In the classic version, the chicken is fried with onions, the rest of the ingredients are added according to the recipe, the sauce is poured in and stewed until ready. In dietary and simplified recipes, all the ingredients of the chakhokhbili are put in a slow cooker and stewed until ready. Sauces are prepared on the basis of tomatoes, often added wine, soy sauce.
What else can be added to the chicken:
• potatoes;
• eggplants;
• green beans;
• Sweet pepper.
Many spices are added to the dish. This is usually a hop-suneli seasoning, but any other can be poured. For spiciness put chili pepper or ready adjika.
In a slow cooker, two programs are usually used to make chakhohbili. On the first part of the dish is fried, then rearrange the stewing and bring to readiness. For frying use frying or baking.
Chahohbili from chicken in a multicooker without frying
The recipe is simple, you can say dietary chakhokhbili with tomatoes in a slow cooker. The dish does not contain anything extra, spicy, bright while it is very easy to prepare.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of chicken;
• 0.2 kg of tomatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 0.5 hot peppers;
• seasonings (hops-suneli, for chicken, salt).
Cooking
1. Onion cut into half rings. Pour into the slow cooker.
2. Add to the onions Bulgarian pepper, cut into pieces.
3. Cut the chicken into pieces, put it on the bow in the slow cooker. We try to make an even layer. 4. Cut the tomatoes into pieces, add garlic and hot peppers to them, blender to a puree state. The skin of the tomatoes do not need to be removed. Hot pepper can be added more than indicated in the recipe. We do according to your taste.
5. Salt and pepper tomato sauce, add hops-suneli or chicken seasoning. Stir the sauce and pour the bird in the slow cooker.
6. Close the miracle pot, leave for half an hour. Let the chicken soak a little tomato.
7. Mix the chicken with the sauce, turn on the “Quenching”. Cooking diet option chakhokhbili exactly one hour.
8. Put the finished chicken on flat plates. Sprinkle with herbs, served with tortillas.
Chakhokhbili from chicken in a multicooker with potatoes
In fact, the potatoes in this dish is not laid very much, this is just one of the additional ingredients. But with her taste chakhokhbili turns out much more interesting.
Ingredients
• 1 chicken about 1.5 kg;
• two bulbs;
• sweet pepper pod;
• 2 potatoes;
• 0.1 kg butter;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tomatoes;
• greens, spices;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 1 tsp. Georgian adzhika.
Cooking
1. In the slow cooker we throw in butter, melt it in baking mode. If its quantity confuses, then it is possible to lay a little less, but it is undesirable.
2. Add chopped onion to butter, do not chop. Fry until soft.
3. Add the chicken pieces, continue cooking. Give the bird a little fry, so that the taste of the chakhokhbili is brighter.
4. Clean the potato tubers, cut into small cubes of 0.5 centimeters.
5. We rub tomatoes or we interrupt in the blender, we mix with adjika. If you do not like spicy, then put it optional.
6. We throw the sliced pepper into the slow cooker, add potatoes and grated tomatoes.
7. Add juice from half a lemon.
8. Pour in a glass of boiling water, salt it, throw any seasonings and chopped garlic.
9. Close the miracle pot, simmer the dish for 40 minutes in the appropriate mode.
Chahokhbili from a chicken in a multicooker with green beans
For this variant chakhokhbili asparagus beans are used, you can take frozen pods. You will also need chicken fillet.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg chicken fillet;
• 0.1 kg Bulgarian pepper;
• 0.3 kg of beans;
• 0.2 liters of water;
• 0.05 kg of tomato paste;
• 1 onion;
• 3 spoons of butter.
Cooking
1. Cut the onion head in arbitrary slices. Can use more.
2. Laying with three spoons in a slow cooker, fry until ruddy color.
3. Cut the fillet into cubes, throw to the onion.
4. Next add chopped sweet pepper.
5. Spread the beans. If the pods are frozen, then no preprocessing is necessary, we just throw it up. Fresh beans should be cut into pieces of 3-5 centimeters, the extreme tips are removed.
6. Add different spices, you can throw a spoonful of Georgian adjika, pour hops-suneli or just fill the dish with black pepper salt.
7. Dilute the paste in a glass of hot water. If the beans are used frozen, then half the cup is sufficient.
8. Pour into the slow cooker, stir.
9. Cooking on the “Quenching” mode for exactly 40 minutes.
Chakhokhbili from chicken in a multicooker with wine
This dish uses dry red wine, it gives it a unique aroma. But you can use a white drink, too, it will turn out delicious.
Ingredients
• small chicken up to 2 kg;
• onion head;
• one pepper;
• three tomatoes;
• two cloves of garlic;
• 0.5 buns of dill;
• 2-3 sprigs of cilantro;
• 150 ml of wine;
• 120 ml of soy sauce;
• butter;
• hop-suneli, laurel.
Cooking
1. The chicken should be well washed and chopped into small pieces. Bony sites without pulp immediately discarded, they are not useful.
2. Sprinkle the bird with pepper, seasoning hops-suneli or just take spices for chicken.
3. We heat up a couple of spoons of butter on the frying mode, we put the cooked pieces in, cooked until lightly crusted.
4. Pour in the wine and let it evaporate completely.
5. Add chopped onion and sweet pepper.
6. We dip tomatoes in boiling water, remove the skin and cut into small cubes. 7. Put the tomatoes to the chicken, add soy sauce and minced garlic.
8. Pour in a glass of boiling water, salt, close.
9. Rearrange to extinguish mode, cook 45 minutes. Turn off.
10. Pour over the chopped dill and cilantro, let the green flavors penetrate the dish.
Chahokhbili from chicken in a multicooker with canned tomatoes
An interesting recipe chakhokhbili from chicken. The dish is prepared with tomatoes in its own juice, but you can also take canned tomatoes.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of chicken;
• 800 grams of tomatoes in their juice;
• 0.5 heads of garlic;
• 1 tsp of chopped chilli (you can take less);
• 1h. l hops suneli;
• 1 tsp. coriander;
• 2 sprigs of purple basil;
• 300 grams of onions;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Wash the chicken, cut into pieces or immediately get a suitable semi-finished product.
2. Set the frying mode, pour in some oil.
3. Throw the chicken pieces, cook about fifteen minutes. Sometimes stir.
4. Shred the onion in half rings, send to the chicken. Let it roast.
5. We put the tomatoes in our own juice in a bowl, add all the spices to them, put the chopped garlic and stir, immediately salt it.
6. If you just use canned tomatoes, then remove the skin and knead a little, then also combine with spices.
7. Pour the tomato mass to the fried chicken.
8. Put a sprig of basil on top.
9. Close, simmer for 45 minutes, set the appropriate mode.
10. Put the dish in the plates. We tear off leaves from the remaining sprig of basil, decorate chakhokhbili.
Chahokhbili from chicken in a multicooker with eggplants
A variant of Georgian chakhokhbili with eggplants. It can be consumed independently or served with boiled rice, potatoes.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg chicken;
• 2 eggplants;
• 2 onions;
• 2 tomatoes (necessarily ripe);
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 50 grams of butter;
• 2 spoons of vegetable oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the eggplant into pieces, sprinkle with salt and set aside. If the skin of blue ones is hard, then it is advisable to peel the fruits. 2. We cut onion into straws, fold into a slow cooker and fry in baking mode until transparent.
3. Sprinkle the chicken pieces with flour. You can simply pour the box into a bowl and just stir it.
4. Add the chicken to the onions, fry together. As soon as the pieces are reddened, add the butter, let it melt.
5. Chop the garlic finely, send it to the dish.
6. Sazu throws all sorts of spices that like.
7. Rinse the pieces of eggplant from salt, squeeze and put in the cup the multicooker.
8. Rub the tomatoes, pour into the slow cooker, add a glass of boiling water and stir.
9. Close, turn on the fire, prepare on this mode for half an hour. We try, if necessary, time can be added.
Chahokhbili from a chicken in a multicooker - useful tips and tricks
• If chicken breast is used for chakhokhbili, then it is not necessary to fry the product for a long time before stewing. Otherwise the fillet will become dry and tasteless.
• In chakhokhbili optional add fresh tomatoes. You can use pasta, ketchup, pickles.
• Not everyone likes the smell of digested garlic. Therefore, many housewives prefer to add it at the very end of cooking chakhokhbili, just pour under the lid. With greens do the same.
• If the chicken does not want to fry in a slow cooker and juice, you can sprinkle sugar on the pieces. Also buy a ruddy crust helps soy sauce, you can add a little honey to it.
• Chakhokhbili is more tasty in butter than in vegetable fat. But it burns faster. To make it tasty and beautiful, you can mix both kinds in half.
