Khichin with meat - a very tasty and easy-to-cook dish

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• kitchen stove (hob);
• a bowl;
• strainer for sifting flour;
• tablespoon;
• rolling pin;
• pan;
• scapula;
• dishcloth or cling film.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Dough

1. Sift 3 cups flour into a bowl, add 0.5 tsp. salt and soda, pour 1 cup of kefir or ayran. You can put 1 tbsp. l softened butter to make the dough more plastic.
   
2. Knead the dough - first with a spoon, until the whole mass has gathered in a bowl, and then with your hands on a table sprinkled with flour. The dough should not be too steep, but you need to knead it well - at least 10-12 minutes.
   
3. Experienced chefs recommend knocking out the dough on the table so that it becomes more elastic, rolls easier and does not tear. Cover the dough with a towel or cling film and leave to lie for half an hour.
   

Filling

1. If you bought beef meat, cut it into small pieces and scroll in a meat grinder with a fine grill. You can buy ready-made ground beef.
   
2. Salt the minced meat (approximately 0.5 tsp. Salt), add a little black pepper to your taste, mix. Neither onions, nor carrots, nor any other ingredients are added to minced meat for hichin.
   

Making hitchin

1. Divide the dough into 4 parts and roll into balls. Forcemeat also divide into four parts and form round cutlets from them. Portions of dough and minced meat should be approximately the same size.
   
2. Use your hands to form a round cake of each size of dough so that a portion of minced meat fits into it.
   
3. Place minced meat in the center of the cake.
   
4. Pulling the edges of the dough, collect it over the meat in the form of a bag and carefully pinch.
   
5. On a table sprinkled with flour, gently knead with your fingers and stretch a ball of dough along with the filling so that it takes the form of a tortilla - hitchina. This must be done very carefully so that the dough does not break. You can use a rolling pin.
   
6. Roll the rolled cake 5-7 mm thick on a table dusted with flour. In the same way, cook the quiches from the remaining dough and minced meat.
   

Baking

1. Heat a dry frying pan well (cast iron is best for such a dish).
   
2. Put the hichin and bake on low heat for 6-7 minutes. - 3-3.5 minutes each. from each side.
   
3. Grease the finished huts with butter (1 tsp) and stack them on top of each other.
   
4. You can serve both cold and hot.
   

Video recipe

You can cook a delicious dish of Caucasian cuisine - hitchin with meat by watching this video recipe. All the secrets of kneading and processing dough, the subtleties of cooking minced meat and other types of toppings, especially baking hychin - you will see all this and, of course, learn how to cook these wonderful flat cakes with filling.

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