Chocolate Khinkali

Famous Italian chef Enzo Neri has joined the team of “Mercure Tbilisi Old Town“ since March 2020 – „I have been working in the culinary industry for 19 years, at different times I held leading positions as a chef, consultant and manager. Culinary, preparation, hosting, sharing, experiments are my passion. This is what motivates me to be the best chef and leader and to inspire the people around me.

I get inspiration for various sources - culture, music, history, arts, everyday life and the people themselves. Preparing a dish is like creating a sculpture or a drawing, you play with colors, shapes and at the same time add flavors. When I was making Khinkali experiment, I first studied the traditional Khinkali recipe and decided to prepare a sweet version of it. I used local products - Nadughi and walnuts. I added cocoa to the dough. As the chocolate Khinkali has no juice, it is recommended to serve it with English cream, which has a light citrus flavor.”

Preparation Time

30-60 mn

Difficulty

Difficult

CAL

250-500 calories

Type of Food

Dessert

Goes with

Limonati by Borjomi Adjarian Mandarin

Recipe author

Enzo Neri

Ingredients

Portions :

Flour

110 gram

Cocoa

16 gram

Egg

1 piece

Warm water

70 milliliter

nadugi

100 gram

nadugi

20 milliliter

Powdered sugar

16 gram

Raisins

0.2 teaspoon

dark chocolate

24 gram

orange dry-fruits

0.2 piece

Walnut

16 gram

Sugar

27 gram

Egg yolk

1 piece

Milk

100 milliliter

step

To prepare the dough, place the flour and cocoa in a bowl, mix and make a deepening, pour in the eggs and water. Stir and knead the dough. Divide dough into 2 equal parts. Knead each piece well until you get a firm, elastic dough. Roll out on a floured surface with the help of a dough roller. Cut out about 6 cm diameter rings and roll out again. With this amount of dough you will prepare about 20 Khinkali.

step

To make the filling, mix together the Nadughi, cream, powdered sugar, raisins, chocolate grains, chopped walnuts and orange candied peel.

step

Place 1 full teaspoon of the filling on the flattened dough, connect the edges and tie together like Khinkali. Boil for 3-4 minutes in boiling, salted water.

step

To make English cream, beat 4 egg yolks and 135 g of sugar in a bowl. Simmer the milk with the orange and lemon peel in a saucepan. Take out the citrus peel. Pour the boiled milk over the egg mass, mix well and return to the saucepan for boiling. Stir continuously, bring to a boil or 85 degrees. Remove the obtained cream on a clean bowl and cool.

Serve

Fill ⅓ of the bowl with cream, put khinkali, decorate with mint leaves and orange candied peel, sprinkle with powdered sugar, as desired.

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