Chak-chak is a popular fried dough food in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other parts of Central Asia.
Chak-chak is made from unleavened dough cut and rolled into hazelnut-sized balls, which are then deep-fried in oil. Optionally, hazelnuts or dried fruit (e.g. apricots and raisins) are added to the mixture. The fried balls are stacked in a mound in a special mold and drenched with hot honey. After cooling and hardening, chak-chak may optionally be decorated with hazelnuts and dried fruits.
Traditional wedding chak-chak is larger and is often covered with candies and dragées. The biggest chak-chak weighed 4,026.4 kilograms (8,877 lb) and was prepared on 14 June 2018 during start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Kazan.
Types
- If the dough is fried as noodles, chak-chak is called boxara käläwäse (Tatar: бохара кәләвәсе, [bɔxɑˈrɑ kælæwæˈse], i.e. bukharan käläwä).3
- Kazakh shek-shek is similar to boxara käläwäse.
- Uzbek chakchak comes as half rounded balls, noodles, and flakes.
- Tajik chaqchaq comes in both types, as balls and as noodles.
See also
- Gulab jamun
- List of doughnut varieties
- List of fried dough varieties
- List of Russian dishes
- Bashkir cuisine
- Tatar cuisine
- Lokma (a similar dish originating in Turkey)
- Mee siput
- Rengginang
- Struffoli
- Sachima (a similar dish in Manchu cuisine)
- Gavvalu (a similar dish in India)
- Funnel cake
Footnotes
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Çäkçäk.- My Home — Tatar cuisine recipes
References
Tatar: чәкчәк, cəkcək[1] or чәк-чәкBashkir: сәк-сәк, sək-səkRussian: чак-чак, chak-chak /wiki/Tatar_language ↩
"Самый большой чак-чак в мире". www.pari.ru. https://knigarekordovrossii.ru/rekordy/1155-samyy-bolshoy-chak-chak-v-mire ↩
"чәкчәк". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002. /wiki/Tatar_Encyclopaedia ↩