🥃 Pelamushi

Pelamushi is a thick Georgian dessert, similar to a fruit jelly. It is cooked from grape juice with flour. It is a seasonal dish prepared in autumn, during the grape harvest. The recipe is simple. Fresh white or red grape juice is boiled down until thicker, then flour is sprinkled in while stirring constantly so that no lumps form. The result is a warm, sticky mass, poured into bowls and left to set. No sugar is added: all the sweetness comes from the grapes themselves. Alongside pelamushi, Georgia is known for churchkhela, nuts threaded on a string and coated in the same grape juice and flour. A similar dessert exists in Greece: moustalevria. All of them are grape products with no fermentation involved. Pelamushi is made without yeast and contains no alcohol. Georgians serve it at the table with nuts, and love it especially during the autumn harvest, rtveli. It shows that in Georgia grapes go not only into wine.