Khachapuri with cheese

Khachapuri is a dish of Caucasian cuisine, it is made in Georgia, Abkhazia, and Ossetia. The food is a cake or a large pie with cheese filling. A pie can have a different shape, be both closed and open. Almost any kind of dough is used, but traditionally it is mixed in matsoni, a sour-milk drink that in the Caucasus is called a product of longevity. In order to try different versions of khachapuri with cheese, there is no need to make a trip - this dish can be cooked at home.

Cooking Features

Khachapuri with cheese is able to bake even an inexperienced cook, if he knows the details of the technological process and invests his soul in cooking. Georgian cooks say that a hot shower and skillful hands are the main thing needed to get a truly delicious khachapuri.

• The matsoni, on which it is customary to knead dough for khachapuri, can be found not only in the Caucasus. It can be found on the shelves of many supermarkets or made independently by ordering the leaven over the Internet. If you can not use real yogurt, you can replace it with kefir, mixed sour cream in the ratio of 1: 1.
• The most delicious is khachapuri, in which the dough is thin and the filling is evenly distributed. Cheese for the filling must be taken no less than the flour used to make dough.
• Cheese for khachapuri usually use brine, but other options are possible. The most popular is Imereti soft cheese, Adyghe, suluguni, white cheese. Cheese in khachapuri stuffing is often supplemented with cottage cheese and greens.
• Khachapuri can be baked in the oven or roasted in a frying pan. After cooking, the cakes are usually lubricated with melted butter. Sometimes in the center of a closed khachapuri they even make a hole to put a piece of oil in it.
• Khachapuri is tasty even when it is cold, but it is customary to serve it only hot. If you can not eat all the food immediately after cooking, it can be removed in the refrigerator, and then reheated in the oven, in a frying pan or in the microwave.

Khachapuri can be served as an appetizer to grape wine, both white and red.

Khachapuri in Georgian

Caloric content of the dish: 3268 kcal, per 100 g: 295 kcal.

Composition:

• wheat flour - 0, 3 kg;
• matsoni - 0, 25 l;
• butter - 125 g;
• salt - 4 g;
• soda - 4 g;
• sugar - 25 g;
• Imereti cheese - 0, 35 kg;
• sour cream - 50 ml.

Method of preparation:

• Sift flour.
• Melt 100 g of butter.
• In matsoni, add salt, sugar and soda, mix. Leave for 10 minutes.
• Mix matsoni with butter, pour into a bowl of sifted flour and knead smooth dough. Give him 20-30 minutes to rest, covered with cling film.
• Finely chop the cheese with a knife, mix with sour cream and softened butter.
• Divide dough into 4 parts.
• Roll out one part of the dough, put the fourth part of the cheese filling in the center.
• Raise the edges of the scone to the center and seal them.
• Place the resulting pie with the edges stuck down and roll it into a 1-1.5 cm thick cake.
• Make 3 more cakes from the remaining dough and cheese.
• Heat the pan. It is not necessary to lubricate with oil - there is enough oil in the dough so that it does not burn during cooking.
• Put the cake in the pan, cover it with a lid. Cook until she is browned. Turn and browse the other side, without covering the pan with a lid.
• In the same way, fry the remaining tortillas.

When feeding khachapuri to the table, it is recommended to grease them with melted butter and sprinkle with chopped greens. If you could not find Imereti cheese, replace it with the Adygei cheese - the taste of khachapuri will not change significantly.

Abkhazian Khachapuri

Calorie dishes: 4625 kcal, per 100 g: 265 kcal.

Composition:

• matsoni or yogurt - 130 ml;
• boiled water - 130 ml;
• wheat flour - 0, 45 kg;
• dry yeast - 7 g;
• salt - 5 g;
• sugar - 10 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• vegetable oil - 30 ml;
• chicken egg - 7 pcs .;
• suluguni - 0, 25 kg;
• Adyghe cheese - 0, 25 kg.

Method of preparation:

• Boil water, cool it to about 40 degrees, mix with fermented milk product. Pour sugar, salt and yeast into a warm mixture of water and matsoni. Stir, leave for 10 minutes.
• Sift the dough, combine it with the prepared mixture, add the vegetable oil and the raw egg, knead the dough.
• Leave the dough warm for about an hour to rise. Blow it up and proceed to the next stage of preparation.
• Grind both types of cheese on a coarse grater and combine with softened butter.
• Divide dough into 5 parts.
• Roll one piece into an oval cake. At the edges, put a little curd. Wrap the edges towards the center. Form a boat.
• Make boat-shaped patties from the remaining dough.
• Whip the yolk, smear the edges of the boats with it, so that when they bake in the oven they will get an appealing shade.
• Fill the boats with the remaining cheese filling.
• Lay parchment on a baking sheet, put khachapuri on it. Send for 20 minutes in a preheated 200 degree oven.
• Take out the khachapuri. In the center of each boat, break the egg.
• Return the khachapuri to the oven and cook another 5-10 minutes.

The Abkhaz version of khachapuri is among the most famous and popular. He owes his fame to his unique form and unique composition, thanks to which the dish has a special taste.

Khachapuri with curd and cheese

Caloric content of the dish: 3785 kcal, per 100 g: 296 kcal.

Composition:

• flour - 0, 3 kg;
• cheese (feta cheese or suluguni) - 0.3 kg;
• cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
• sour cream - 150 ml;
• butter - 150 g;
• chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• soda - 2 g;
• salt, greens - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Curd cheese through a sieve, divide into two equal parts.
• Put half of the curd in a bowl, break two eggs into it, pour in the melted butter, mix.
• Sift flour, combine it with soda and salt.
• In a bowl with flour, transfer the egg mixture to the curd, make the dough. Divide it in half and roll out into equal round diameters.
• Grate the cheese, mix with the remaining curd and sour cream.
• Beat the remaining egg into the cheesecake mix.
• Pass through a garlic press, finely chop the greens, add to the cheese mass, mix.
• Lay parchment on a baking sheet, put one layer of dough on it. Put the filling on top, cover with the remaining dough.
• Fold the edges of the cake.
• Place the baking tray with khachapuri in the oven heated to 180 degrees, bake the cake for 45 minutes.

When serving, Khachapuri prepared according to this recipe should be cut into portions.

Lazy khachapuri with cheese

Caloric content of the dish: 2510 kcal, per 100 g: 257 kcal.

Composition:

• cheese - 0, 35 kg;
• chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
• dill - 100 g;
• sour cream - 0, 25 l;
• flour - 60 g;
• vegetable oil - how much will leave;
• salt, spices - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Cheese (not necessarily brine) grind as much as possible It is best to grate it on a grater.
• Finely chop the dill.
• Put sour cream in a container with cheese, mix.
• Add raw eggs, stir until smooth.
• Pour the sifted flour and dill, add salt and season to taste. Stir to get a homogeneous mass.
• Put the dough in the fridge for an hour.
• Heat the pan, grease it with vegetable oil.
• Pour the dough into the pan, cover with a lid.
• When the khachapuri is well-browned at the bottom, turn it over and continue to simmer until ready.

This recipe for khachapuri with cheese is one of the easiest to prepare, as it does not require separate preparation of dough and filling.

Khachapuri puff pastry

Caloric content of a dish: 5477 kcal, per 100 g: 328 kcal.

Composition:

• Suluguni - 0.5 kg;
• margarine - 0, 3 kg;
• flour - 0, 45 kg;
• water - 0, 25 l;
• salt - 5 g;
• chicken egg - 3 pcs.

Method of preparation:

• Sift flour.
• Mix water with salt. Pour into flour, mix.
• Add 100 g of softened margarine, mix.
• Divide the dough in two.
• Roll one piece into a rectangular bed. Smear with melted margarine or butter. Fold the edges to the center, then fold in half. Get 4 layers of dough.
• Do the same with the other half of the test.
• Put the dough in the fridge for half an hour, roll it out, roll it up with a book, then put it back in the fridge. Repeat the procedure another 3-4 times.
• Roll out the dough, cut into 12 cm squares.
• Rub the cheese, mix with two eggs.
• Put the stuffing on each square, turn them into triangles.
• Whisk the remaining egg with a little water.
• Using a cooking brush, brush the egg with triangular envelopes.
• Fold the envelopes on a baking sheet and place in an oven warmed to 220 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes.

If you use ready-made puff pastry, which is commercially available, it will be possible to cook khachapuri according to the above recipe much faster.

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