Green Beans and Potatoes Simple summer dish with flat green beans and potatoes. This was one of my favorite dinner dishes as a child, unfortunately can’t say the same about my children’s favorites. There are only a few veggie dishes they’d eat. My mom would make this meal as soon as flat green beans and […]
Category Archives: Armenian Cuisine
Cold Soup with Yogurt – Մածնաբրդոշ
Cold Soup with Yogurt Cold soup that’s perfect and so refreshing for this hot summer weather. We call this soup Matsnabrdosh, coming from the word “matsun/ yogurt” and “brdel” when you dip the bread chunks in soup. Not sure if I was able to explain this properly, and I know the actual name may be […]
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Meat Stuffed Eggplants Recipe
Meat Stuffed Eggplants If you like eggplants as much as I do, than these meat stuffed eggplants may become your next, absolute favorite dish. I agree, the making may be slightly time consuming, but the overall result, and I mean the taste, is very well worth every minute you spent to make this delicious and […]
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Basturma Omelette Recipe – Apukht Omelette
Basturma Omelette Recipe Recently I shared a Basturma recipe and YouTube tutorial on how to make this delicious, flavorful Armenian appetizer, which is a simple cured meat coated with spiced fenugreek paste . I thought I’d might as well share a very quick and delicious Armenian breakfast idea with that same apukht/ Basturma. As a […]
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Cured Meat Recipe – Ապուխտ
Cured Meat Recipe This cured meat (basturma) or as we call it in Armenian: Ապուխտ (apukht) may be the most popular and well known Armenian appetizer. We make it on regular basis, but mostly it’s made before the New Year. Cured meat ( apukht) is one of the “must” appetizers for our New Year table.The […]
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Harissa Recipe – Հարիսա – Armenian Cuisine
Harissa Recipe Very special, powerful and historical Armenian dish called Harissa. In Armenia nowadays Harissa is made once a year to commemorate the resistance of Musa Ler mountain during Armenian genocide in 1915. Hundreds of people will gather in Armenian region Armavir, every third Sunday of September , they’d sing patriotic songs ,dance to celebrate […]
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Shrimp Dumplings Recipe – Shrimp Manti
Shrimp Dumplings Recipe This quickly made up shrimp dumplings quickly became my personal favorite dish among my other culinary improvises. I’d assume originally shrimp dumplings, as a dish, are from oriental cuisine, definitely not from my traditional Armenian, but I thought it’d be interesting if I add my own touch to the dish and I […]
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Stuffed Cabbage Rolls – Armenian Tolma
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls Recipe These delicious stuffed cabbage rolls, or as we call the dish in Armenian : tolma, is one of my favorite traditional dishes. And I do like this one the most, just because it’s much more flavorful from all the other veggies that are included in the dish. Yes, this dish is […]
