How To Cook Real Chak-chak

Chak-chak is a national dessert of the Tatars, Bashkirs, Kirghiz. It is revered and loved in many countries around the world. Chak-chak is easy to cook. Any hostess can handle this.

Air chak-chak recipe

Chak-chak is prepared according to different recipes. It all depends on the preferences of the culinary specialist. Some people like airy chak-chak, others prefer crunchy sweets.

Ingredients:

• 150-200 g flour;
• 2 large chicken eggs;
• 1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp baking powder or baking soda;
• vegetable oil for frying.
• 100-150 ml of honey.

Cooking instructions

1. Break eggs into a deep container, add granulated sugar. Beat the ingredients with a mixer or whisk.
2. Pour baking soda, salt into the egg mass. Mix.
3. Pour flour into a bowl in portions, stirring constantly.
4. Knead the elastic dough with your hands.
5. Send the dough to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
6. Divide the dough into several parts.

7. Roll out the pancake. Cut it into thin cubes.

   

8. You need to fry the chak-chak in hot oil, constantly watching so that the dessert does not burn.
9. When the preparation for the chak-chak is ready, it should be poured abundantly with honey. In order for it to be evenly distributed throughout the mass, it is necessary to mix everything thoroughly.
10. Send the chak-chak to the refrigerator for 1 hour. Before that, you can form a cake out of it.

Milk chak-chak

This recipe contains milk. That is why it appears in the name of the delicacy.

Ingredients:

• 300-400 g flour;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• 3 tbsp. l. milk;
• 1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp baking powder or baking soda;
• vegetable oil for frying.

For syrup:

• 150 ml of honey;
• 120 g granulated sugar.

Cooking instructions

1. Beat eggs with a mixer. This must be done until the yolk and white turn into a homogeneous mass.
2. Pour granulated sugar, salt, baking powder into a bowl. Mix the ingredients thoroughly.
3. Pour in milk. It should be at room temperature.
4. Gradually add flour to a common bowl, stirring constantly.
5. Knead a firm, elastic dough.
6. Send the dough to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

7. Divide the dough into several pieces. Roll one of them into a thin layer.

   

8. Cut thin strips, first along, then across. It should be borne in mind that in hot oil the dough sticks will noticeably increase in volume.
9. Pour sunflower oil into a saucepan or cast iron. As soon as it heats up, you can lower the first portion of the future chak-chak into the container.
10. After frying, the cubes are best laid out on a paper napkin. It will absorb excess oil.
11. You can start preparing the syrup. Combine honey with granulated sugar in a saucepan, bring to a boil. Cook for 6-7 minutes.
12. Pour chak-chak syrup. Mix thoroughly with a spatula or fork.
13. Send the dessert to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.