Chechen cuisine

Dishes

Main Dishes

• Barsh - Mutton stomach stuffed with ground meat, similar to Haggis.
• Chepalgash - Sort of pie filled with cottage cheese and wild garlic.
• Dalnash - Chudu filled with lards and wild garlic.
• Daqina-Jijig - Smoked meat
• Hingalsh - Sort of half-round pie filled with pumpkin with butter or ghee. It is one of the most popular dish of the Chechen cuisine.
• Holtmash - Dumplings made from corn flour and filled with nettle.
• Jijig-Chorpa - Soup made of mutton or beef meat, tomatoes, potatoes, etc.
• Jijig-Galnash - Galnash with meat.
• Kiald-Davtta - Cottage cheese with butter.
• Kkherzan-Dulkh - Fried meat with vegetables.
• Khudar - Porridge with cheese.
• Siskal - Fried cornbreads.
• To-Beram - Sauce made of Sour cream and cottage cheese. Often accompanied with Chechen corn breads.
• Yokh - Sausage made of wheat flour, mutton meat, chicken fat and garlic.

Desserts

• Ahar Hovla - Helva made from corn flour.
• Dema Hovla - Helva made from wheat flour.
• Garzni Hovla - Helva made from wheat flour in form of noodles.
• Gvaymakkhsh - Sort of pancakes with honey.