Chuck-chuck

Chak-chak is a traditional national dish, a real pride of cooking in Tatarstan. Without it, no festive feast is complete, chak-chak is given to guests from other cities, tourists buy it. Chuck-chuck is made from traditional products - flour, milk, eggs, butter and honey. Simply put, it is dough cut with straw or rolled into balls, fried in boiling oil and drenched in honey. At the end of cooking, the dish is given the desired shape (often in the form of a slide). They eat chak-chak, cutting it into small pieces, or just with their hands. Today, chak-chak is sold not only in Tatarstan, but also in other regions of Russia - this delicacy has become popular among Russians, although 30 years ago even Tatars did not remember it. The legendary Kazan chef Yunus Akhmetzyanov revived this traditional Tatar dish - in the 80s of the last century he traveled to Tatar villages and collected ancient recipes, and when he became a chef of the House of Tatar Cooking (the restaurant in Kazan that exists today), he brought the collected recipes to life. Chuck-chuck quickly won popular love, although at first many people asked: "What is this corn?"

Chuck-chuck was not an everyday treat. It was prepared only for big holidays, given during weddings. The parents of the young, visiting each other, brought cakes as a guest and certainly chak-chak. They prepared it especially: all the girls roll dough, others cut it, married girls fry it, and the oldest generation is engaged in honey pouring and forming a festive ready dish.