Khinkal

Khinkal recipe history

The khinkal recipe comes from Dagestan. Moreover, it can be called without exaggeration one of the most famous local dishes in the world. In the original, the recipe for Dagestan khinkal is pieces of dough boiled in meat broth. Serve these same pieces of dough - khinkalins, along with broth, meat and a specially prepared sauce. Despite the fact that the dish seems very simple, it has many varieties, which are divided mainly by region.

Khinkal happens: Avar, it is also called puff khinkal - it is prepared in the form of rhombuses about 1 cm thick and pierced with a fork; Dargin - for him the dough is rolled out very thinly, divided into pieces, sprinkled with walnuts and rolled into rolls; laksky - rolled out with sausage, cut into cubes and boiled in meat broth; Lezgi - roll out the dough, cut into squares and boil in meat broth; shepherd khinkal involves rolling the dough with a sausage and pinching off small pieces. Then the pieces of dough are boiled in the broth as it should be. From this it becomes clear that khinkal does not look the same everywhere, but it tastes plus or minus, regardless of the region.

The cooking process itself looks something like this: meat or chicken broth is boiled, when the meat is cooked, it should be removed from the broth, and the dough cut into pieces should be lowered in its place. To serve, khinkal is laid out on a plate along with pieces of boiled meat or poultry, and tomato or sour cream sauce with garlic is certainly prepared. Here is such a khinkal, but is there any use in it? We will learn about this further.

Khinkal Ingredients

for the broth:

• Chicken - 600 g;
• Onions - 1-2 heads;
• Carrots - 1 pc.;
• Salt - to taste;
• Water - for the broth;
• Green cilantro - to serve.

for the test:

• Kefir 2.5% fat - 1 tbsp.;
• Flour - about 2.5-3 tbsp.;
• Baking soda - ½ tsp;
• Salt - ½ tsp

for the sauce:

• Sour cream - 180 g;
• Garlic - ½ head.
• Salt - to taste.

Khinkal Dagestan - recipe with photo

1. We start by choosing the right ingredients. Above, we said that the traditional Dagestan dish "Khinkal" is cooked in meat or chicken broth. Today's list is chicken. Take the upper part of the carcass, but without wings. You will also need onions, carrots and salt. For the dough: kefir, flour, soda and salt. For garlic sauce with sour cream - sour cream and garlic, respectively.
   

   Products for making khinkal: chicken, onions with carrots - for broth. Flour, kefir, soda - for dough. Sour cream and garlic - for sauce. Cilantro - for serving.

2. So, let's get started. Put the chicken, peeled onions and carrots in a deep pan. It is advisable to chop the vegetables into rings. After that, water is added and the pan is placed on the stove. Bring to a boil on high heat. We remove the foam, salt the broth and leave it on low heat for 45 minutes.
   

   First, let's prepare the broth. Add chicken and peeled vegetables to the pan. Pour water and bring to a boil. Remove the scale and continue to cook the broth for at least 45 minutes.

3. While the broth is being prepared, in which the khinkal itself will be cooked according to the recipe, knead the dough. Pour warm kefir into a bowl and dilute it with baking soda. Stir until foam forms.
   

   We prepare the dough. Add kefir to the kneading container.

4. Next, gradually introduce flour and a little salt.
   

   Let's add flour and salt. You need as much flour as the dough absorbs, but so that during the kneading process, the bun stops sticking to your hands.

5. Knead a tight but elastic dough. The dough for khinkal, the recipe of which you are now studying, turns out to be pleasantly fragrant and snow-white, rolls out superbly in the process. Be sure to put it in a bag for 30 minutes, and then send it to a cool place.
   

   Roll the dough into a ball, pack it in a bag and send it to the refrigerator.

6. Roll out the chilled bun on the table. Do not forget to "bathe" the dough in flour and roll it well. After that, the flour is no longer needed. The gingerbread man is elastic and does not stick to hands. The layer should be thick.
   

   Roll out the dough into a thick layer.

7. Next, using a pizza cutter, we form rhombuses or rectangles.
   

   Cut into diamonds.

8. Now khinkalilins need to be cooked. We take out the boiled chicken from the pan, and filter the broth itself. "photo 08" The liquid has reduced significantly, and the broth has become saturated. We send the khinkal blanks one by one into a saucepan with broth and cook for 5-7 minutes.
   

   We cook khinkalins in a broth purified by straining. Readiness will be determined by taste.

9. We catch it with a slotted spoon and immediately pierce it with a toothpick or skewer. Put on a serving dish and serve with sour cream and garlic sauce. Don't forget to put the chicken meat next to the khinkalinkas.
   

   We catch it with a slotted spoon and immediately pierce it with a toothpick or skewer. Put on a serving dish and serve with sour cream and garlic sauce. Don't forget to put the chicken meat next to the khinkalinkas.

10. The sauce is prepared in the simplest way. We clean the garlic, and cool the sour cream.
    

    We will prepare hot sauce from garlic and sour cream.

11. Pass the garlic cloves through a grater, and then mix with sour cream. Salt to taste. Serve in a gravy.
    

    Stir the chopped garlic well with sour cream. Add salt.

12. So our homemade Dagestan khinkal is ready - you are already watching the recipe with the photo at the final stage. A nutritious and healthy dish is served hot. Boiled chicken meat, khinkalins and spicy sour cream sauce combined - a uniquely delicious lunch dish. If desired, chicken broth can be poured into bowls and served at the table along with the main khinkal.
    

    Dagestan khinkal is ready! Enjoy its taste.

The benefits of khinkal

In the test, and even with meat, there is not much use. Many nutritionists generally consider this combination unacceptable. On the other hand, each of these components of the dish separately can even serve our body in good stead. So in the flour, from which the khinkalins themselves are prepared, there is a huge amount of vitamin and microelements, and if you choose flour from durum wheat, then you don’t have to worry about the figure. At the same time, boiled meat is a dietary product rich in protein and iron, which is extremely important for hematopoiesis and the cardiovascular system. There are questions about sauces, but if you wish, you can do without them, though the taste of the Caucasian flakes is excellent! Today we have prepared for you a recipe for a real khinkal with a photo, so we will not delay and start cooking.

So, today we learned how to quickly and easily cook Dagestan khinkal. We hope the recipe did not seem too troublesome and complicated for you. It is quite possible that you have your own cooking options, then send us your khinkal and its recipe with a photo. We will be glad to cooperate because cooking together is much more fun. Your friend and adviser HozOboz!

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