About Armeniancuisine
Armenians love to eat, but they also know how to prepare delicious, economical and extremely healthy dishes that will be highly appreciated by any gourmet. Every dish in the Armenian cuisine is not just a food product, but a work of art that brings pleasure not only to the feeling of satiety, but also to the purely aesthetic taste sensations.
About Armenian cuisine
Breakfast consisted mainly (and still does) of bread and cheese. For lunch, we ate bread, cheese, matsun (in Sochi, we will use the Georgian version of the name – "matsoni") or soup. And all the fattest, sharpest, most concentrated food was eaten in the evening, during dinner. Dinner usually consisted of several courses. Soups were placed on the table in large clay tureen pots, and then poured into plates. After the soup, there were beef and lamb dishes, then poultry, then fish dishes, and finally egg dishes.
About Armenian cuisine
About Armenian cuisine
The diet of Armenians is very peculiar and radically different from those dictated by various directives on a healthy lifestyle. Paradoxically, the main meal for Armenians is for lunch, and most of all – for dinner. Of course, they eat Breakfast, but very quickly, as they say, "on their feet."
About Armenian cuisine
Fish was highly valued in the diet. Many rulers of Armenia and nakharara (feudal lords), providing fish stocks, created large special reservoirs (tskhnatesank), where they bred especially valuable species – such as brook trout. Fish was cooked, fried with oil, on a spit, coals, stuffed with special spices.
An important detail: in Armenian cooking, wild plants are widely used, which other peoples for some reason call weeds. Some of these plants are dried and used for cooking special dishes, while others are used as condiments for meat and fish dishes.
This thousand-year-old experience is carefully collected and passed on to descendants, to any guest who crosses the threshold of the "Amshenskiy Dvor" in Sochi. Here – not just a roadside tavern, but a whole complex: Caucasian cuisine, an archaeological and ethnographic Museum, a chapel, a monument to soldiers who died in the battles for the Fatherland at all times.
