Chuck-chuck - the most popular and delicious Orientaldessert. The peculiarity of sweetness lies in the strongly pronounced taste of honey and in the airiness of the dish. Another name for delicacy is honey slide, although it may not always have a similar shape. In Chak-Chak shops in Tatar, you can buy them in round and rectangular containers. But the shape of the container does not affect the flavor, sweetness and taste.
General cooking information
В рецепте чак-чака используется крутое яичное dough. According to the classic recipe, in order to make the confectionary product airy and porous, they add vodka, but in some it is replaced by baking powder. Long and thin sausages are made of dough, which are subsequently cut into short sticks. Roasting should be done in deep fat, that is, in a container filled with oil. It is recommended to use vegetable.
After roasting, the dough pieces are mixed with warm and liquid honey or chak-chak syrup. It is important that the syrup has the taste and smell of honey, otherwise the dish will lose its originality.
Chak-chak can also be prepared in the form of balls, inside which are chocolate, marshmallow or any other sweet filling. Guests will be surprised by this surprise.
Chuck Chuck with Vodka
To make chak-chak at home, you will need the following ingredients:
- 3 chicken eggs;
- about 40 ml of vodka without additives;
- 1.5 cups of flour;
- 45 grams of sugar;
- 20 g of salt or 1.5 hours spoon;
- honey;
- vegetable oil.
В среди ингредиентов для чак-чак есть водка, which is part of the test. It helps to loosen the dough better so that more air bubbles form in it. You can replace the 40-degree drink with any high-strength alcohol or baking powder for the dough. Very often used moonshine or brandy.
How to cook chak-chak
- The first step is to diligently sift.through a sieve flour. Then you need to add salt with sugar and eggs. Kneading the dough, you must gradually pour the required amount of vodka. The finished base for the future dessert should be steep and cracked. Next, it must be removed in the refrigerator for at least 35 minutes, after putting it in a plastic bag.
- As long as the dough reaches the condition in the fridge, you can prepare deep-fat fryers. To do this, in a deep pan or bowl, pour the oil in a four-centimeter layer.
- Chilled dough must be rolled into a thin pancake. Optionally, it can be divided into several equal parts and freeze them until the next cooking.
- The rolled flat cake should be cut into thin "noodles" with a length of 2-3 centimeters.
- According to the recipe of the Tatar dish chak-chak fryFried dough pieces need very quickly, no more than 20-30 seconds. "Noodles" in oil should not come into contact with anything. The perfect color of the finished product is golden.
- To get rid of excess oil, from the deep fat chak-chak must be laid out on a paper towel. Immediately remove most of the pieces from the pan most convenient skimmer.
- In this way it is necessary to fry all the dough and cool the resulting product.
- For coating honey, you need to bring it to a liquid state, as according to the recipe of chak-chak, the dough should be mixed with a mixture of syrup or honey.
- Ready dessert must be laid out beautifully on a plate in the form of a slide.
Chak-chak recipe with honey on milk
In this recipe, you do not need to add alcohol in order for the dough to become airy. This role will perform the usual baking baking powder.
Ingredients for the Tatar dish:
- 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 3 cups of flour;
- 2 teaspoons of salt;
- 5 tablespoons of non-fat cow milk;
- 3 small spoons of baking powder for dough;
For frying, you need 200-300 ml of vegetable oil.
For coating dessert - 4-5 tablespoons of honey with a slide.
The basis for the test in this recipe is milk.
How to cook chak-chak on milk
- First of all, flour and baking powder needmix in one container. In another bowl, you must mix and then thoroughly beat the salt, sugar, milk and eggs with a mixer. The finished mixture should be poured into the flour, and, kneading the dough, let it rest. So it will become more plastic and convenient for the formation of blanks for frying.
- A clump of dough is necessary to roll out into a pancake with a thickness of 0.5 cm. The resulting large tortilla should be cut into thin, no more than 1.5 centimeters, stripes.
- Each strip must then be cut into 0.5 cm square pieces, which, after roasting, will take the form of inflated cubes.
- To fry in a saucepan, you must pour the butter and heat it to a boil. Dough pieces are best cooked in small portions so that they do not stick together and do not touch deep-fried.
- While preparing preparations for the chak-chak, you can put the kettle to warm up. After the dish is cooled, it is necessary to grease it with melted honey or honey-based syrup.
Chuck-chuck on kefir
The dough according to this recipe turns out to be universal and may also be suitable for preparing brushwood. For chak-chak need the following products:
- 2 eggs;
- 30 ml of vodka;
- 0.5 cup of kefir;
- 35 g sugar;
- 6-8 tablespoons of honey;
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
- oil for roasting.
Cooking chak-chak on kefir
- First, in a bowl, you need to mix eggs, kefir,salt with sugar. Beat all this thoroughly, gradually adding flour and vodka, kneading the dough. The resulting cool dough must be put in the package in the refrigerator for 25-40 minutes.
- Всю массу теста надо разделить на шарики same size. Each of the balls roll into thin cakes, which then need to be cut into long and narrow sausages. The length of the sausage should not exceed the width.
- Deep-frying is required to fry the dough bars to a light golden color.
- It is necessary to mix roasted chak-chak with melted liquid honey.
Fragrant dessert is ready! You can serve it to hot tea.
Chuck-chuck with poppy seeds and nuts
This version of the preparation of chak-chak in Tatar is distinguished by a powerful nut and honey aroma. Also, some stages of preparation differ from the classic recipe. So, for cooking you need:
- 4-5 eggs;
- 0.5 kg of flour;
- 2 spoons of butter;
- 0.5 teaspoon sugar;
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
- 2 tablespoons of vodka;
- 0.5 liters of oil for frying;
- 4-5 spoons of milk;
- 200-250 grams of favorite nuts;
- 25-30 g of dried poppy;
- 0.6 kg of honey.
Cooking chak-chak with poppy seeds and nuts
- Egg whites and yolks must be separated from each other.
- Yolks should be rubbed with sugar and butter. The color of the mass should become lighter.
- Squirrels, on the other hand, should be thoroughly whipped with salt until obtaining an airy consistency of white.
- The resulting mixture must be combined, there pour milk. Gradually adding flour and vodka, you need to knead the dough, which is then placed in a bag and set aside for 30 minutes in the bin.
- Roasted nuts must be chopped.
- Poppy must be boiled with water for 10 minutes. After pouring the water, dry the poppy.
- The dough should be cut into strips of small length. Then it must be fried in butter until golden.
- Put the finished dough pieces in a large bowl, add the poppy seeds with nuts, mix well.
- Melted honey pour from above on the chak-chak so that it completely covers the dessert.
When serving pieces of chak-chak lay out a slide. If desired, you can decorate with berries or fruit.
Chak-Chuck Syrup Recipe
Данный вариант является экономным, так как в нем Chuck-chuck syrup is used, not 100% honey. Since honey is expensive, it can be added to the syrup, which smears well Tatar delicacy. The base is prepared and fried in any popular way, but the difference from the recipe for chak-chak with honey is to make a syrup.
Ingredients for syrup:
- 100 g of honey;
- 200 g of granulated sugar;
- 70 ml of water.
This recipe is designed for those who already know how to knead and bake the base for the dessert, so cooking consists only of cooking syrup.
Cooking:
- Sugar and water are mixed in a saucepan that is set on fire. After boiling it is required to cook them for 5 minutes.
- In the sugar syrup, you need to add honey, which must be completely dissolved. After that, turn off the fire.
- The final stage - mixing the finished pieces of dough and syrup with honey. At this stage, you can create a chak-chak of any shape. Then let the fragrant dish harden.
Bashkir Chak Chak Recipe
This recipe for chak-chak is different from the Tatarby adding nuts, dried fruits, coconut chips and other sweet additives, such as chocolate. The following ingredients are needed for cooking:
- 4 eggs;
- 155 g sugar;
- 120 g of honey;
- 2 teaspoons of butter;
- 2 tablespoons of water;
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt;
- 3 cups of flour;
- 1/4 bar of chocolate;
- 1 tablespoon of vodka or brandy.
Cooking process:
- You need to beat the eggs with salt and sugar to a lush consistency, adding soft flooded butter.
- Next, add vodka and sifted flour to this whipped mixture, gradually kneading the dough.
- The finished piece of dough should be covered with a napkin or towel and set aside in a warm place for 1 hour.
- A little more sugar needs to be dissolved in water and bring it to a boil.
- There you must put all the honey and remove the container from the stove.
- You can form blanks for chak-chak using a meat grinder. For this you need a grid with large holes.
- Add the dough to the grinder should be gradually in small pieces. As soon as 2-3 cm long sausages appear through the holes in the net, they should be cut with a sharp knife and separated from each other.
- Fry products need to be deep-fried in small portions evenly. Golden pieces of chak-chak folded in a bowl with a deep bottom.
- Chocolate should be divided into 3 parts, where 1 part is melted with butter in a water bath or in a microwave oven, and the remaining 2 parts are rubbed with large chips.
- Add sugar syrup to baked chocolate and mix thoroughly until smooth.
- For serving, chak-chak should be laid out on plates in the desired shape, and then pour melted chocolate-sugar syrup. Sprinkle coconut and chocolate chips on top. Let the dish cool.