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Chicken Shkmeruli
Zurab Gogoladze
Head chef, Ketsi da Kera, Ambrolauri, GE
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Chicken Shkmeruli

1 h 30 min total45 min hands-onServes 2Medium

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Crisp the bird hard under a weight first; the milk goes in for eight minutes to carry the garlic, not to cook the chicken.

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
Ketsi or 26 cm cast-iron pan, Flat weight of about 3 kg, Poultry shears
Allergens
Milk (dairy)
Method
19 steps · 15 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 25 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».

Dry-salted spatchcocked chicken

Film

The bird split down the back, flattened, and salted twelve hours uncovered in the fridge.

Wet skin steams instead of crisping; a night of dry salt pulls water out and seasons the meat.

  • Whole young chicken000 g
  • Fine salt000 g
Steps
6
Time
12.3 h
Hands-on
15 min

Makes One 1.1-1.3 kg bird, serves two; use within 2 days

The night before

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Niortskali — pounded garlic and salt

Raw garlic pounded to a paste with coarse salt and let down with cold milk.

Chopped garlic browns and turns bitter in the pan; pounded paste stays sweet and disperses evenly.

  • Garlic000 g
  • Coarse salt000 g
Steps
4
Time
15 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes About 200 ml, enough for one bird; use within 4 hours

Up to four hours before service, kept cold

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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 young chicken000 g
  • Whole milk000 g
  • Garlic000 g
  • Clarified butter000 g
  • Sunflower oil000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 25 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.

CHOOSING7:00

What a young chicken should look like

TECHNIQUE12:00

Pressing a bird under weight in a ketsi

KIT6:00

Ketsi, cast iron and choosing the weight

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 19 STEPS

15 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 15 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: keeping the milk below simmer — 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 Zurab Gogoladze watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Milk poured into a pan still roaring

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Garlic cooked until it turns bitter

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Skin pressed down without being blotted dry

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The garlic never meets hot fat — it enters crushed with salt and cold milk, and the pan leaves the flame before that milk can boil.

Written by Zurab Gogoladze. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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