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Chorek

Name: Chorek
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Turkmenistan
Ingredients: 500g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 300ml Water; 50ml Milk; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tbsp Sunflower oil; 1 tbsp White Sesame Seeds

Side Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Round flatbread stamped with a pattern and baked in a tandoor — Turkmenistan's bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chorek is the round bread essential to the Turkmen table, baked stuck to the inside of a clay tandoor oven. Its hallmark is a pattern pressed into the center with a special tool to flatten it. Bread is considered sacred, and people are taught never to put it on the ground or throw it away.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In the yard of a village house in Turkmenistan, round breads are peeled one after another from a hot tandoor and piled into a cloth-covered basket.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 500g
Dry yeast 6g
Water 300ml
Milk 50ml
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Sunflower oil 1 tbsp
White Sesame Seeds 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, lukewarm water, and oil and let rise 1 hour.
Divide in two, shape into balls, and rest 15 minutes.
Flatten to 20cm across and prick a pattern in the center with a fork, leaving a thicker rim.
Brush the top with milk and sprinkle with sesame.
Bake in an oven preheated to 250°C for 12–15 minutes.

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