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Kazakh Chak-Chak

Name: Kazakh Chak-Chak
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Kazakhstan
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 3 Egg; 2 tbsp Milk; A pinch Salt; 200g Honey; 80g Sugar; To taste Oil for frying; 30g Walnuts

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small pieces of fried dough set with honey syrup — a sweet essential at Central Asian celebrations.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chak-chak is known as a traditional Tatar sweet, and in Kazakhstan too it's essential at weddings and celebrations. Small pieces of dough are fried, coated in hot honey syrup, and set into a mound or ring. Showy in appearance, it's served with tea as a sweet for welcoming guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Kazakh wedding, a mound of chak-chak glowing golden with honey sits on the table as guests break off little pieces.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 250g
Egg 3
Milk 2 tbsp
Salt A pinch
Honey 200g
Sugar 80g
Oil for frying To taste
Walnuts 30g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, egg, milk, and salt and rest 30 minutes.
Roll the dough 5mm thick, cut into thin strips, then into 1cm lengths.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Bring the honey and sugar to a boil in a pot and simmer 3 minutes until syrupy.
Add the fried dough and coat quickly.
Shape into a mound with wet hands, scatter with crushed walnuts, and let cool.

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