← Back to Georgia recipes 🇬🇪
FROM
Georgia
Kharcho

This is an AI-generated image.

Kharcho

Soup
⏱ 90 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐⭐

A rich Georgian beef and rice soup with walnuts, spiced and pleasantly sour.

#Georgia#Beef#Soup#Walnut#Rice
📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

Share on LINE Save to Pinterest Post to X

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

A signature Georgian soup where beef's savoriness meets walnut richness and tomato's tang. Traditionally soured with tkemali plum sauce, it balances heat and acidity in equal measure.

🌆 Where it's eaten: A warming favorite on chilly days, often served with bread as a meal in itself.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Cut the beef shank into large chunks and simmer in water for about an hour, skimming off scum, to build a broth.

  2. Add the tomato paste and simmer another 10 minutes.

  3. Grind the walnuts and add along with the garlic.

  4. Add the rice and simmer about 20 minutes until tender.

  5. Season with salt.

  6. Finish with a scatter of cilantro.

← More Georgia recipes 🗺 Explore another country