Pumpkin Chudu: A Baked Dagestan Delight

A tasty and healthy national dish of Dagestan cuisine! Chudu is a traditional dish of Caucasian cuisine, which is similar to a thin pie or flatbread with filling. The filling for the miracle is different: meat, cottage cheese, potatoes, cheese, herbs, pumpkin. A particularly interesting recipe is a Dagestan dish — miracle with pumpkin, baked in the oven. This pastry turns out tender, soft, tasty and healthy. The miracle is fried in a dry frying pan or baked in a mold in the oven, also without greasing its bottom. Only after baking or frying, so that the miracle is soft, is it greased with melted butter. You can serve this miracle with soup, hot, or as an independent dish for tea.
cook time: 40 min
Caleb Huxley
Pumpkin Chudu: A Baked Dagestan Delight

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

272
Calories
18g
Fat
21g
Carbs
6g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

For dough:

Wheat flour 300 g
Salt 1 tsp
Water 150 ml

For filling:

Pumpkin 300 g
Bulb onions 1 pc
Walnuts 200 g
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper to taste
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Butter 50 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Letʼs prepare the ingredients for the pumpkin miracle. Letʼs start by preparing unleavened dough, almost like for dumplings or chebureki. Pour the sifted wheat flour into a bowl and add a teaspoon of salt. Pour in clean cold water, mix the mass until a smooth, elastic and obedient dough is obtained.

Step 2

Step 2
Let the dough rest at room temperature for about 20 minutes, covering it with a napkin on top.

Step 3

Step 3
In the meantime, prepare the filling. Wash the pumpkin, remove the peel and seeds. Finely chop the pulp with a knife or grate it. You can use pumpkin harvested during the harvest season and frozen for future use. If it was frozen in large pieces, defrost it and chop it.

Step 4

Step 4
We remove the shells from the walnuts, wash them, dry them in the microwave, and grind them into crumbs using a blender.

Step 5

Step 5
Peel the onions and chop them finely.

Step 6

Step 6
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Place the cooked onions on the heated oil. Fry it, stirring occasionally with a spatula, until transparent.

Step 7

Step 7
Add the pumpkin to the frying pan with the onions. Stir and simmer over medium heat for about 10 minutes. Place the vegetable mass in a bowl, add chopped walnuts to it, add ground black pepper and salt to taste. You can add a pinch of sugar if you wish, but the pumpkin is sweet enough for this dish.

Step 8

Step 8
Divide the dough into two parts, one slightly larger than the other.

Step 9

Step 9
Roll out most of it into a thin circle. Place the filling on it, leaving the edges free.

Step 10

Step 10
Roll out the second part of the dough into a thin circle.

Step 11

Step 11
Cover the dough with the filling with this circle. We pinch the edges. We transfer the miracle workpiece into the mold (there is no need to grease the bottom of the mold with oil), make several punctures on top with a fork so that steam escapes during baking.

Step 12

Step 12
If desired, the top of the miracle can be brushed with beaten chicken egg or milk. Bake at 210 degrees for about 15 minutes. Remove the miracle from the oven, brush with melted butter and serve immediately. Bon appetit!

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