Tired of the usual vegetable salads? Do you want to cook lunch or dinner in the Georgian (Caucasian) style? We cook phalis from spinach, it will be delicious and original.
Phali (or mkhali) - a kind of Georgian salad, usually made from a main vegetable, the amount of which is 90% of the total mass of the whole dish and dressing, which is the same for any species of phal. By the type of the main vegetable and called salad. There are variants of phalis from cabbage, beets, sweet pepper, green and onion (we are now going to prepare from spinach, but this recipe is universal).
We will tell you how to make delicious phalis from spinach with nuts. The zhalpka for phali is made from a mixture of natural wine vinegar with the juice of unripe grapes and / or pomegranate juice with the addition of ground walnuts, garlic, red hot pepper, as well as fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, basil, tarragon). The sauce is slightly salted. You can also add a little hops-suneli into it.
The cardinal difference between cooking phali and vegetable salads that are familiar to us is that the main vegetable (and we have this spinach) is necessarily subjected to heat treatment.
Recipe for phalis from spinach in Georgian
Ingredients:
- fresh spinach - 500 g;
- walnut kernels - 0.5-1 cup;
- wine vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- pomegranate juice-fresh - 30 ml;
- Freshly chopped fresh herbs - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- red hot pepper - to taste;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- spices dry ground (suneli);
- ground coriander seed.
Preparation
We will boil-pripustim spinach in a small amount of water in a saucepan for 3 minutes or just fill it with steep
Now spinach weed out the desired way and add the dressing.
Refueling. Ground nuts mixed with chopped garlic, add the rest of the ingredients, slightly salted to taste, fill salad mix. You can grind the spinach in a blender. Before serving, let the phali stand, podmarinuetsya in the refrigerator of the watch 2-3. We serve phali to meat or fish dishes. You can serve with a single mass in a plate, making diagonal notches and decorating the pomegranate seeds. And you can form balls.