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Khinkali
Khinkali are usually eaten with your hands, dipping them in the sauce and sipping the broth, but you can eat with utensils as well – it depends on the type of dish and the situation.
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The Chechen culinary pantheon places their own equivalent of khinkal in first place –zhizhig galnash. This is often translated into Russian as “galushki with meat.”
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The dough is worked in such a way that the pieces really do look like galushki (dumplings) and the meat (lamb or chicken) is cooked separately.
A portion of galushki and a piece of meat are served on the same plate, and broth and sauce are served alongside.
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At the base of the numerous variations on khinkali are unmixed cooked pieces of dough of this or that form, a boiled piece of meat, and the broth from the meat, served separately.
A mature sheep in three-quarters view standing and looking left, beside it a lamb lies on the grass (ca. 1655) by Karel DujardinThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is thought that this is how Chabans in the mountains cooked for themselves – they boiled the lamb separately and then cut it into pieces, cooked the pieces of dough separately, and ate everything with sips of broth from the meat.
Сhief Сonsultant — Ekaterina Drozdova, restaurateur, gastronomic entrepreneur, food and social activist, Photo production — tm agency, Contributors — Proximity Russia, Denis Yershov, Alexandra Grigoryeva
