What is khychiny? It turns out that this popular Georgian national dish is a small flat cake filled with potatoes and cheese or from meat with greens, which are first fried in a dry frying pan, and then abundantly smeared with melted butter.
The dish is very simple to prepare and unusually tasty and satisfying! Let's consider with you some original recipes for cooking khychin at home!
The hutchins' recipe with potatoes
Ingredients:
- flour - 2,5 items;
- milk - 250 ml;
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- Adyghe cheese - 100 g;
- dill, basil - if desired;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- Salt, black pepper, red pepper - to taste;
- butter for lubrication.
Preparation
How to cook hutchins? Mix first the dough from flour, milk and salt. Then cover it with a film and leave to rest for about 30 minutes.
Potatoes boiled in a uniform are peeled. Cheese grate on a fine grater and mix with finely chopped greens of dill, basil, pepper, salt, garlic. Mix everything well and add hot mashed potatoes to the mass.
We divide the finished dough into several parts and make balls from them. Then roll them into a flat cake, put in the center a little stuffing and carefully splinter the edges. Then roll out the rolling pin and bake in a hot frying pan. Ready chickens carefully shifted to a dish, greased with abundantly melted butter and stack them stacked on top of each other. That's all, our hutchins with potatoes are ready.
Cucumber Recipe with Cottage Cheese
Ingredients:
- water - 1 l;
- wheat flour - 1 kg;
- salt - to taste;
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- potatoes - 500 g;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- Butter - 200 g.
Preparation
From the water, salt and flour mix the dough. It should not turn out to be very steep. We wrap it under a film and we remove it for 15 minutes in the refrigerator.
This time we are preparing the filling: the potatoes are boiled in a uniform. Cottage cheese is twisted together with cooked and peeled potatoes. Stuff the salt to taste and mix well. From the filling we form small balls and lay out on the table.
Dough thinly rolled out, cut into circles. We put the bead from the filling between two mugs of dough and roll it out with a rolling pin. Fry the cakes with hot oil until golden. Spread the hutchins with cottage cheese on a dish, and thoroughly lubricate with melted butter.
Khychin on yogurt
Ingredients:
For the test:
- wheat flour - 4 items;
- kefir - 200 ml;
- warm boiled water - 200 ml;
- soda - pinch;
- dry yeast - 5 g;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 1 teaspoon.
For filling:
- potatoes - 5 pcs .;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- butter - 50 g.
Preparation
Warm water, kefir, dry yeast, salt, sugar, soda and flour mix in a deep bowl and knead a homogeneous dough. Then cover it with a napkin or food film and leave it for 3 hours in a warm place.
Potatoes are cleaned and boiled in slightly salted water until cooked. Onions are cleaned and finely chopped, fried until golden brown. With the potatoes drain the water and add the fried onions.
Then properly knead and divide the dough into 10 equal parts. From each piece we form a flat cake, we spread on it a stuffing, we collect the edges and splice our hands. Then carefully roll out each ball with a rolling pin and bake cakes in a dry frying pan on both sides, until you get an appetizing crust. Finished tortillas grease with melted butter and serve to the table.
If these options of cooking seem to you a little, then we have other recipes for khychin , for example - chicken with cheese .