KHACHAPURI (Georgian Cheesebread):
excellent dinner for hungry people
recipe is for 4 persons
for the filling:
500g Georgian salty cheese. I used 250g cottage cheese and 250g salty cow's cheese
1 egg
Put this all in a food processor and mix, or use a fork if you have the patience to break the cheese
for the pastry:
3dl yoghurt or 2.5dl milk (I recommend yoghurt)
1 egg
50g butter, soft
500g flour (all-purpose)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 pinch of soda-bicarbonate
mix this all well (should not be sticky, rather bread-like, or pizza pastry-like), and half it (the whole amount is too hard to handle). So this amount will be enough for 2 khachapuris, if there are only two hungry people, just half all the amounts, just as I did
You can either create filled khachapuri or an open-top one.
Filled: Roll the pastry out in a 5mm thick circle, put the filling in the middle, leaving the outher part of the circle untopped. Then cover the middle part by carefully folding the outer part on the top. Water your fingers and glue together the folded parts in the middle.
For the open-top one, create a boat shape resembling this picture:
with thicker sides and put the filling in the middle.
Bake it in a preheated oven (gas mark 8 for me, electric should be about 180-200 Celsius), until golden brown (should take about 15-20 minutes).
If you made the open-top version, put a butter cube on the top and serve. Real men can also put a raw egg on the top
. If you made the filled version, just slice as you slice a cake, and serve warm.
