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Georgian Foraged Nettle-Walnut Pesto with Wild Garlic and Dehydrated Sulguni
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Georgian Foraged Nettle-Walnut Pesto with Wild Garlic and Dehydrated Sulguni

Picture a Caucasian mountain grandmother who discovered Italian pesto and immediately decided it needed stinging nettles, wild garlic, and crumbled dehydrated sulguni cheese. This is that sauce. The dehydration step concentrates the grassy chlorophyll punch of the nettles while amplifying the lactic tang of the sheep's milk cheese into something almost parmesan-adjacent, and the walnuts bring that deeply Georgian bazhe energy. It shouldn't work this well, but Georgian flavor logic is basically built for exactly this kind of green, nutty, funky chaos.

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