Cuisine: Caucasian (Chechen, Dagestan)
The taste of boiled meat, tender dumplings, the aroma of garlic and spices
Cooking method: cut + boil + cut + replace + roll out + mold (dumplings)
Main household appliances: stove
Basic kitchen utensils: cutting board + knife, saucepan (3-5 l), dough board, deep bowl for flour, rolling pin, large serving dish (round)
Main products: chicken, cornmeal, garlic, eggs
Cooking time: 2 h +
Difficulty: medium
Type of dish: main course
Ingredients
Kotam (poultry meat) and strong broth:
Chicken or turkey - 2 kg
Salt - 1 tbsp.
Bulb - 1 pc.
Bay leaf - 1 pc.
Black peppercorns - 1.2 tsp
Galnash (cornmeal dumplings):
Corn flour - 500 - 600 g
Water - 250 ml (1 cup)
Egg - 1 pc.
Salt - 1 tsp or less
Beram garlic sauce:
Garlic - 1-2 pcs. (heads)
Ground black pepper
Salt kosher (coarse)
The broth is strong
How to cook it?
1. make ready a strong clear broth with a clean taste:
- boil a whole chicken or large parts of a turkey in salted water; the water should completely cover the meat
- collect foam after boiling
-Include (add) a whole onion, lava leaf and a few black peppercorns to the broth if desired
- Now you take the meat, strain the broth, divide it into two parts to cook dumplings in one and serve the other on the table
2. Cook for cats (chicken):
- Here cut the boiled chicken into hunk (portions)
3. Prepare galnash (dumplings):
- sift flour
- have to knead fresh stiff dough from flour, warm water, eggs and 1.2 tsp. salt
- make roll out the dough into layers 1 cm thick
- create a 1 cm thick layer of dough
- cut it into long strips of the same width
- cut the strips across with rhombuses
- sculpt dumplings of the same shape - oval and flattened. A piece of dough is stroked with fingers, twisted into a shell, then kneaded (warmed) in the palms to make a small round corn tortilla
- dilute ½ part of the broth with water, bring to a boil, salt. Boil galnash until tender, about 10 minutes.
4. Prepare Beram garlic sauce:
- crush peeled garlic with kosher (coarse) salt
- pour hot strong broth and mix
- season with black or red pepper. Sometimes crushed potatoes are added for density.
