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Chikhirtma Chicken Soup
Tamar Bochorishvili
Chef-owner, Dukani Chrdili, Tbilisi, GE
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Chikhirtma Chicken Soup

2 h 30 min total50 min hands-onServes 6Medium

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The whole soup turns on temperature: yolks tempered and finished below a simmer stay silky, and one more minute of boil scrambles them.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
6 L stockpot with a heavy base, Fine chinois or double-layer muslin, Instant-read thermometer
Allergens
Egg, Gluten
Method
19 steps · 14 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 26 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Whole-bird broth

Film

A whole chicken simmered with onion and pepper until the meat lifts off the bone, then strained.

Stock cubes give no gelatine and no bird fat, and the fenugreek has nothing to sit in.

  • Whole free-range chicken000 g
  • Yellow onion000 g
Steps
6
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 2.5 L strained broth; 3 days chilled, 3 months frozen

Day before, so the fat sets and lifts off cleanly

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Onion and flour base

Onions sweated slowly in chicken fat with a little flour until blond, never browned.

The flour is what holds the yolks in suspension; without it the soup separates on standing.

  • Yellow onions000 g
  • Chicken fat or butter000 g
Steps
5
Time
30 min
Hands-on
25 min

Makes About 400 g, enough for 2.5 L of broth; 2 days chilled

Same day, the ground spice dulls overnight

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Egg yolk liaison

Film

Raw yolks whisked with vinegar, then let down with hot broth a ladle at a time.

It is the only thickener in the soup and nothing bought does this job.

  • Egg yolks000 g
  • White wine vinegar000 g
Steps
4
Time
12 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes About 350 ml, enough for 6 bowls; use at once

Never, mix it while the broth is holding at 75 C

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Whole free-range chicken000 g
  • Yellow onions000 g
  • Egg yolks000 g
  • White wine vinegar000 g
  • Wheat flour000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 26 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING9:00

Picking a bird: age, fat, and why the feet matter

TECHNIQUE11:00

Tempering yolks: the two-ladle method

KIT6:00

Thermometers and pot mass: holding a soup at 75 C

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 19 STEPS

14 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 14 of the 19 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: adding the yolks off heat — step 11 of 19.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 13 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Tamar Bochorishvili watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Returning the pot to a boil after the liaison

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Vinegar poured into the broth instead of into the yolks

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    A rolling boil during the broth, which clouds it for good

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The acid goes into the yolks before they ever meet the broth, and the pot has a ceiling temperature it must never cross.

Written by Tamar Bochorishvili. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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