How to pronounce Chak-chak

Chak-chak is written чәкчәк where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /t͡ɕæk t͡ɕæk/. In plain English letters that is CHAK-chak, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Chak-chak?

Chak-chak is a dessert of Russia. Where it comes from: Tatarstan. People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Chak-chak comes from

Chak-chak is one of 27 signature dishes of Russia on this map. See all dishes from Republic of Tatarstan.

• Echpochmak өчпочмак · Street food · Tatarstan

  Echpochmak, whose Tatar name means triangle, is a national dish of the Tatars and Bashkirs: a triangular baked pastry filled with chopped meat, onion and potatoes.

• Gubadiya гөбәдия · Dessert · Tatarstan

  Gubadiya is a tall, round, closed pie of the Tatars, also baked by the Bashkirs and Chuvash.

• Pelmeni пельмени · Main dish · Urals and Siberia

  Pelmeni are small dumplings of thin dough filled with raw minced meat, often a mix of beef, pork and lamb with onion, boiled and served with sour cream, butter or vinegar.

• Blini блины · Bread & pastry · Russia

  Blini are thin pancakes, traditionally made from yeasted buckwheat or wheat batter.

• Beef Stroganoff бефстроганов · Main dish · Saint Petersburg

  Beef Stroganoff is thin strips of beef sautéed and served in a sauce of mustard and smetana, sour cream.

• Pozharsky cutlet пожарская котлета · Main dish · Torzhok (Tver Oblast)

  The Pozharsky cutlet is a breaded patty of minced chicken, or sometimes veal, made especially juicy by working butter into the meat; in Russia it is coated in crumbs of white bread and fried until crisp.

Food of Russia

Dishes like Chak-chak in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Chak-chak:

• Kutia кутя · Dessert · Ukraine

  Kutia is boiled grains of wheat or barley mixed with honey, the ritual dish of the Slavic winter festive cycle.

• Runeberg torte runebergintorttu · Dessert · Porvoo (Uusimaa), Finland

  Runebergintorttu is a small cylindrical cake of about 100 grams, flavoured with almonds and arrack punsch or rum, topped with raspberry jam inside a ring of white icing.

• Kūčiukai · Dessert · Lithuania

  Kūčiukai, also called šližikai or prėskutė and sometimes known in English as Christmas cakes, are small baked bites made for Kūčios, the traditional Lithuanian dinner on Christmas Eve.

• Kulaga кулага · Dessert · Polesia, Belarus

  Kulaga is a sweet-and-sour porridge of rye or wheat flour and malt, made by Belarusians mainly in Polesia, the marshy south of the country.