Mountain Griddle · Stuffed Flatbread
Khychiny
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The dough is rolled paper-thin around the filling in one motion, so the cheese or potato mixture ends up distributed edge to edge rather than sitting in a pocket like most stuffed breads.
Khychiny is a thin, round flatbread filled with a mix of soft cheese, mashed potato, or minced meat, rolled out with the filling folded inside the raw dough, then dry-fried on a hot griddle and brushed with butter. Roadside stalls throughout the Karachay-Cherkess and Kabardino-Balkar mountains sell them fresh off the pan.
Why it's made this way: Khychiny is a signature dish of the Karachay and Balkar peoples of the North Caucasus, developed around the dairy and potato farming of their mountain villages.
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