Chicken tabaka ( ka, წიწილა ტაბაკა ''tsitsila tabaka'') or chicken tapaka ( ka, წიწილა ტაფაკა ''tsitsila tapaka'') is a traditional
Georgian
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Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
[''Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian'', Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo, p. 380][Goldstein, Darra. ''The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia'', p. 102] dish of a
pan-fried
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chicken which is also popular in other
Caucasian cuisine
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Traditional dishes Plates
Some popular cheeses from the Caucasus include:
* Ashvlagwan ''(Ашвлагуан)'' — Abkhaz ...
s. It also became a common restaurant dish in the
Soviet cuisine
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and is found nowadays in many restaurants throughout
Eastern Europe
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and
Central Asia
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.
The chicken is fried in a traditional
frying pan
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called ''
tapa
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*Tapas (website), a webtoon site, formerly known as Tapastic
* ''Tapas'' (film), a 2005 Spanish film
* ''Tapasya'' (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language film
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'' ( ka, ტაფა).
[MacVeigh, Jeremy (2008]
''International Cuisine'', p. 221. Cengage Learning.
Google Books. Retrieved 16 October 2013. For frying thoroughly, the chicken is flattened out on the pan and pressed by a weight. In modern cookery, special pan sets with a heavy cover or with a
screw press
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are often used.
Chicken tabaka is often seasoned with garlic or dressed with traditional Georgian sauces, such as
bazhe
Satsivi ( ka, საცივი, ''sac'ivi'', ; also known as chicken in walnut sauce) is a Georgian dish made from poultry such as turkey or chicken put into walnut sauce. The term ''satsivi'' is also used as a generic name for a variety of poul ...
,
satsivi
Satsivi ( ka, საცივი, ''sac'ivi'', ; also known as chicken in walnut sauce) is a Georgian dish made from poultry such as turkey or chicken put into walnut sauce. The term ''satsivi'' is also used as a generic name for a variety of pou ...
or
tkemali
Tkemali ( Georgian: ტყემალი) is a Georgian sauce primarily made of cherry plum, sometimes '' alucha'' or other varieties of plum. Both red and green varieties of plum are used. The flavor of the sauce varies, but generally tends to ...
.
See also
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List of chicken dishes
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Chicken as food
Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world. Owing to the relative ease and low cost of raising chickens—in comparison to mammals such as cattle or hogs—chicken meat (commonly called just "chicken") and chicken eggs have beco ...
References
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Georgian words and phrases
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