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Zhingyalov Hats

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Zhingyalov Hats

Snack
⏱ 60 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐⭐

More than ten wild greens and herbs wrapped in thin dough and griddled — a vegetable flatbread from Artsakh in southern Armenia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Zhingyalov hats means 'herb bread,' a traditional dish of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Ten to twenty kinds of wild greens and herbs are chopped, seasoned with just oil and salt, wrapped in thin dough, and cooked on a griddle. It's a taste of spring when new greens sprout in the mountains after winter, and is often eaten during Lent.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a corner of a Yerevan market, a woman piles green filling onto thin dough, wraps it quickly, and griddles it until crisp.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Knead the bread flour, water, and salt into a smooth dough and rest 30 minutes.

  2. Finely chop the spinach, cilantro, parsley, dill, green onion, and mint.

  3. Mix the herbs with the oil, a little salt, and lemon juice.

  4. Divide the dough into 4 and roll each very thin into an oval.

  5. Pile herbs in the center, bring the dough together from both sides, pinch closed, and flatten.

  6. Cook in a hot frying pan until browned on both sides.

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