Common varieties of Adjika resemble Italian red pesto in appearance and consistency. I call this pesto-like spread “magic sauce” because it makes so many things taste amazing!
From Abkhazia to as far as Moldova, they all produce homemade adjikas. And they all have their own recipes, some with tomatoes, carrots and apples, and others with dried peppers and coriander. It seems the possibilities are endless on how to make adjika, but authentic recipe of Abkhaz adjika is made out of hot red peppers, garlic and spices. Adjika is a sauce of glory and pride of Abkhazia. It is like the diamond of Abkhazian cuisine.
My recipe of adjika comes from Ukrainian traditions using tomatoes and horseradish in addition to hot peppers and garlic. It is much more mild than the Abkhazian variety, but still has that spicy kick from the horseradish. I’ve eaten it slathered on meat, dipped bread and crackers into it, stirred it through scrambled eggs for breakfast, dropped it into soup, with tacos instead of regular Mexican salsa and even eaten it by the spoonful. Maybe the only thing I haven’t tried it with is the ice cream.
Somehow we ended up having a huge chunk of horseradish in our fridge and I quickly knew where this is going. It’s adjika time! It’s so easy (and when I say easy, I mean super easy) to make, there is no cooking involved! Just grind and season all the ingredients – done! A jar like this could stay for months in your fridge without going bad.
You really have to try and make a jar or two of this delicious horseradish sauce to kick a simple meal into something fierce and just watch how quickly you’ll see it gone!
Here is what you need for this delicious horseradish sauce:
2 lb ripe tomatoes
0.5 lb red chilli peppers
1 whole medium garlic
1 cup horseradish
1/2 tbsp salt
1 tsp sugar
It really is that simple. Just grind all the ingredients and season with salt and pepper. If you like me and can get very excited about small things in life so much that you decide to make a huge batch of this delicious adjika, I would suggest putting a plastic bag over the grinder to help with the strong smell of horseradish 🙂
Bon Appetit!
- 2 lb ripe tomatoes
- 0.5 lb red chilli peppers
- 1 whole medium garlic
- 1 cup horseradish
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- Remove all of the seeds from the hot peppers.
- Grind all the ingredients
- Season with salt and add sugar
- Mix well and enjoy!
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This is a Eastern European hot sauce recipe, which has nothing to do with Adjika, which is only made in the Georgian areas Abhazia and Mengrel! It includes only ot peppers, garlic, salt and bouquet of spices, sometimes walnuts too.
This recipe sounds amazing for horseradish lovers! My dad loves horseradish! What is the most common ways you use this or with what type of recipes?
Thanks Nancy! This adjika goes amazing with the steak! Enjoy 🙂
Horseradish. Where do you find it?
Is it a root?
Thanks,
It is not adjika! It is Russian-Ukrainian sauce “khrenovina” or “gorloder” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrenovina_sauce. It has nothing to do with adjika. And adjika is not Ukrainian at all – it is Abkhazian. I bet Abkhazian folks will get heart attack from this recipe
Thank you! First of all Adjika is traditionally Georgian. There’s an Abkhaz variation, but it doesn’t originate from there. Adding sugar and tomatoes is blasphemous lmao
Adjika literally means ‘salt’ in Abkhazian language. Right term is Adjikatsa – ‘grinded with salt’. It’s basically means herbs grinded with salt. Khrenovina also called Ogonek – small fire.
Agreed. Not adjika. And not really Ukrainian either. My Ukrainian baba would have had a coronary reading this – May she Rest In Peace.
I fully agree with this too. Adjika is Georgian/Abkhazian, not Ukrainian, and it’s not supposed to have any tomatoes and horseradish in it.