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This Georgian Flatbread can be served as a side dish or asa vegetarian main dish with a side salad. Filled with a combination of creamy and delicious cheeses and topped with an egg, these perfectly baked Khachapuri are sure to please your family and friends.
Khachapuri (Georgian Flatbread)
Just like Mexican cuisine has gained hugepopularity in the US, Georgian food takes its own important role in a shaping of taste preferences of people from many Post-Soviet countries.
In Ukraine, a lot of popularity earned so called street vendors or street hawkers. You can find them in any city usually selling food from their booth or on regionaltrains.
Since many people can't afford going to a restaurant and trying authentic Georgian recipesthere, they love buying food from local vendors.
Khachapuri or Georgian Flatbread is a very affordableGeorgian recipe that you can often buy fromstreet vendors. It's a kind of food that everyone loves.
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So what exactly isKhachapuri? It's a traditional Georgian yeast flatbread filled with cheese and topped with egg. Forthis recipe most commonly used cheese is Sulguni, which is very tangy and moderately sour. It tastes amazing.
If you live in the area with Georgian/Russian or Ukrainian grocery stores, you can probably find it there.
In Indiana where I live, these stores are quite rare and for my recipe I used a mix of Mozzarella and Feta cheese, that worked just as fine.
You can also use Halloumi cheese in place of Feta.
Khachapuri has many types. Today I'm going to show how to makeAdjarian Khachapuri, named after Georgian region. They are formed in a boat shape and topped with cheese and egg.
Khachapuri are super delicious. They are best eaten right away while cheese is still nice and melty.
Be sure, once you try Khachapuri, you'll betempted to make itagain.
More best Georgian recipes you can make at home:
- Georgian Baby Sweet Peppers And Zucchini Salad
- Satsivi - incredible chicken in a walnut-garlic sauce
- Mtsvadi - the best ever grilled pork kebabs
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Recipe
Khachapuri (Georgian Flatbread)
4.88 from 8 votes
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Cuisine: Georgian
Servings: 6 Khachapuri
Author: Iryna Bychkiv
Ingredients
To proof the yeast
- 3 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon warm water 110-115 F
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
For the dough
- 5 ¼ cups 650 grams all-purpose flour, sifted
- 7 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup water
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
For the filling:
- 2 cups Mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 cups Feta Halloumi or Sulguni cheese, crumbled
- ½ cup water
- 6 eggs
- 2 tablespoons parsley chopped
- 3 tablespoons butter melted
Instructions
In a small bowl, dissolve yeast with 3 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon of warm water, sugar and let it sit for 15-20 minutes until bubbly.
In a bowl of Kitchen Aid add 1 cup of water, milk and mix with a whisk attachment. In the same bowl, add 4 ½ cups of flour, salt, yeast mixture and egg and mix the dough on the 1st speed until well combined.
Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Turn on a second speed and mix the dough until it no longer sticks to the walls of the bowl.
Lightly brush a bowl with a vegetable oil and place the dough to rise for 1.5 - 2 hours.
After the dough has increased in size, remove it from the bowl, lightly oil your hands and on the lightly floured surface knead the dough a few times.
Put the dough back into the bowl and leave it in a warm place until triples in size (about 1 - 1.30 hours).
After the dough has tripled in size, divide it into 6 even pieces. Cover with a towel and leave it on a lightly floured working surface while you prepare the filling.
For the filling
In a medium bowl combine Mozzarella, Feta and water. Mix well.
For assembling:
Preheat the oven to 450 F.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out a piece of dough (1 out of 6 pieces) into a circle about 11-13 inches in diameter. Spread a thin layer of cheese mixture on Khachapuri leaving about 1 inch of space around the edges. (See the notes)
Roll 2 opposite sides of Khachapuri towards the center and tightly pinch the corners.
Add more cheese mixture in the center of Khachapuri so that it was fully stuffed with cheese.
Transfer Khachapuri onto a parchment lined baking dish.
Continue the process with the remaining pieces of the dough.
Bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes until edges became golden brown.
Remove Khachapuri from the oven and with a back of a spoon make an indentation in a center of each flatbread.
Carefully beat the egg and drop it into a well. Continue baking for another 5 minutes until egg white is no longer translucent but yolk is still runny.
Remove from the oven, lightly brush the edges of Khachapuri with melted butter and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Serve immediately.
Notes
In my step-by-step photos, I added cheese only in the center of Khachapuri. While it was delicious, we felt that the more cheese the merrier. Therefore, in the instructions I recommend you spreading a cheese mixture all over Khachapuri, not just in the center.
Recipe is adapted from gotovim-doma.ru
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Iryna Bychkiv is the founder and writer of the culinary website Lavender & Macarons, where she shares clean, European-inspired recipes that are delicious, easy to prepare, and made with wholesome ingredients. Iryna loves creating meals that are simple yet healthy and unique, including vegan and vegetarian recipes.
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Carol says
Hi Iryna, I recently came across pide. I don't know if you ever heard of them or when they originated but I think this recipe is the same thing and I am wondering if you are familiar with them? If you are I am hoping you will tell me what the difference is, if there are any.
Also I want to make this recipe using instant yeast. I imagine I don't have to proof it, just add to the flour and the rest is the same?
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Iryna says
Hi Carol! Thank you for your comment! I've actually not heard about Pide. However, upon Googling the name, I noticed that it is a Turkish recipe. Khachapuri is a Georgian dish. They look very similar, however Pide has many different filling options whereas Khachapuri is always filled with just cheese and egg.
You can certainly make the Khachapuri dough with instant yeast. And yes, you don't have to proof the yeast if it's instant.
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Rosie says
I want to try to make this but I don’t like feta cheese can I use Parmesan instead
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