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Hingalsh

A dish you just can't say no to! Hingalsh are thin unleavened flatbreads with a filling — a classic of Chechen cuisine. The dough can even be made with water, so if you don't have kefir it's easy to swap out. It's best not to boil the pumpkin for the filling but to bake or steam it, so it stays less watery.

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Composition / ingredients

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 13 % 4 g
Fats 22 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 66 % 21 g
152 kcal
GI: 5 / 0 / 95
    1. Rinse the pumpkin and, without peeling it, cut it into small pieces, cutting out the core and seeds. Steam the pumpkin for 15 minutes — in a slow cooker on the "Steam" setting, or over a pot of boiling water with the pumpkin set in a sieve. Then scoop the flesh off the skin with a spoon, blend it into a smooth purée, and season with salt and the sugar.
    1. Pour the kefir into a bowl, add the baking soda and salt, sift in the flour, and knead a soft dough. Divide it into 8 equal pieces. Dust your work surface with flour and roll one piece out very thin into a circle about 7–8 inches (18–20 cm) across. Spread pumpkin purée over half the circle, fold the other half over, and pinch the edges shut — a fork makes this easy. Do the same with all the pieces of dough.
    1. Lightly toast the flatbreads on both sides in a dry skillet (no oil!) — don't fry them hard, just get them lightly browned. Stack the toasted flatbreads on a plate and cover with a lid. Pour hot boiled water into a bowl, and in another bowl melt the butter in the microwave until liquid. Dip each hingalsh in the water, then in the melted butter, and set it on a serving platter.
  • The dish can be served right away; cut the hingalsh into pieces, which makes it easier to eat.
  • Dig in!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Pumpkin - 29  kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Kefir fat - 62  kcal/100g
  • Kefir of 1% fat content - 38  kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 'doctor beefy' 1,8% fat content - 45  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53  kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Water - 0  kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0  kcal/100g

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