~134 cal · 0g protein · 35g carbs · 0g fat (estimated, per serving)
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Glass of bright green tarragon soda
🇬🇪 Imereti
Tarkhuna is Georgia's famous emerald-green soda, born in a 19th-century Tbilisi pharmacy and now made at home from fresh tarragon. Steeped into a bright syrup and topped with sparkling water, it is herbal, sweet, and faintly licorice-like — a nostalgic taste of Caucasian summers.
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Ingredients
Serves 6 —
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2 cups packed fresh tarragon
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1 cup sugar
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1.5 cups water
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1 lemon
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4 cups sparkling water
Instructions
1
Simmer the sugar and water into a syrup, then take off the heat and steep the tarragon in it for 20 minutes.
2
Strain out the tarragon, pressing to extract the color and flavor, then chill the green syrup.
3
Stir in the lemon juice.
4
Pour a few tablespoons of syrup into each glass and top with cold sparkling water and ice.
Georgian homemade-soda tradition.
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Imereti. The western region that gave the world its favorite cheese bread.
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Georgia. A Caucasus wine country with a bread you eat like a boat.
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Asia. From street-cart woks to slow monastery kitchens.
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Richard Moore & Kelsey Tucker
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