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Churchkhela

Also known as: ჩურჩხელა

Walnuts threaded into long strands and coated repeatedly in thickened grape juice.

Churchkhela — illustrative food image

About Churchkhela

Georgian Recipes presents churchkhela as a traditional Georgian sweet made around the autumn grape and nut harvest. Walnut pieces are threaded into long strands before they receive their grape coating.

Homemade badagi begins with ripe white grapes, pressed and reduced into concentrated juice. Flour and sugar thicken the juice into tatara, which coats the threaded walnuts.

The strands hang between coatings until the surface dries. The finished churchkhela has a long, sausage-like shape; its thread is pulled out before the sweet is eaten.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Walnut.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Churchkhela

Georgian Recipes' walnut churchkhela with homemade badagi.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Walnuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Walnut source-confirmed. Actual10/12-16 walnut preparation selected over separate hazelnut strands14-17.
  • Ripe white grapes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own linked Badagi10-17 full extraction/reduction expanded, colour retained with broader grape candidate, cultivar unprovided.
  • Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual11/19 generic flour; official related regional wheat description not proof exact unspecified main flour botanical identity, preserve unresolved.
  • Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual11/19 literal added sugar; not omitted based on some official recipes without sugar.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Georgia
  • GeorgiaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. HOW TO MAKE CHURCHKHELA - Georgian Recipes, Georgia About