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Ojakhuri, pork and potatoes
Nino Abashidze
Chef, Sakhli Marani, Tbilisi, GE
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Ojakhuri, pork and potatoes

1 h 15 min total45 min hands-onServes 4Medium

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Pork and potatoes fried in the same pan, in an order that gets both crisp instead of one steaming the other.

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
Heavy frying pan or ketsi, Slotted spoon
Allergens
None declared
Method
21 steps · 10 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

2 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».

Blue fenugreek and coriander rub

Film

The Georgian spice pair — blue fenugreek and dried coriander — ground fresh and rubbed on dry.

Ordinary fenugreek is bitter and smells different; the blue kind is what makes this taste Georgian.

  • Blue fenugreek000 g
  • Dried coriander seed000 g
Steps
4
Time
15 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes 70 g · keeps 2 months airtight

Up to 2 months ahead; on the pork at least an hour before it hits the pan

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Quick pickled onion

Red onion sliced thin and steeped in red wine vinegar with a little sugar.

The dish is rich and fried; without something sharp on the table it flattens after four mouthfuls.

  • Red onion000 g
  • Red wine vinegar000 g
Steps
4
Time
40 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes 260 g drained · keeps 1 week refrigerated

At least 30 minutes ahead, up to a week

Weights and method unlock on purchase
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.

  • Pork neck000 g
  • Waxy potatoes000 g
  • Red onion000 g
  • Garlic000 g
  • Coriander000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 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.

CHOOSING6:00

Pork neck at the counter: the fat you want to see

TECHNIQUE5:00

Loading the pan in order, so nothing steams

KIT4:00

A ketsi, and what to use instead of one

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 21 STEPS

10 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 10 of the 21 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: loading the pan in the right order — step 13 of 21.

  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. + 15 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

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

  1. 01

    Why the potatoes go in dry, never rinsed wet

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    The two minutes everything spends together

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Adding the garlic off the heat

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The order the pan is loaded in, and the two minutes everything spends together at the end.

Written by Nino Abashidze. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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