Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- pan with a lid;
- rolling pin;
- sieve for flour;
- board;
- teaspoon;
- tablespoon;
- fork;
- scapula;
- grater;
- knife;
- beaker;
- Bowls 2 pcs.
Ingredients
Ingredients | amount |
Flour | 250 g |
Kefir | 190 ml |
Salt | 0.5 tsp |
Soda | 0.5 tsp |
Sugar | 1 tsp |
Dill greens | 50 g |
Sulguni cheese | 250 g |
Cottage cheese and hard cheese | 200 g |
Butter | 50 g |
Step cooking
Dough
- In a deep bowl, mix the dry ingredients: 250 g of flour previously sifted through a sieve, 0.5 tsp. salt, 0.5 tsp soda and 1 tsp. Sahara. Mix everything.
- Pour 190 ml of kefir into the dry mixture and knead the dough.
- When it becomes difficult to interfere with a spoon, lay it on the surface and knead with your hands. The dough should be thick but elastic. Transfer the dough into a bowl, cover with cling film and leave for 20 minutes. After that, it will be easier to work with it and it will not break when rolling.
Filling
- While the dough is resting, get stuffed. To do this, take 250 g of suluguni cheese and 200 g of any other cheeses, you can use hard cheese like Russian, cottage cheese or feta. Grate suluguni and other hard cheeses on a coarse grater, mash cottage cheese or feta with a fork.
- Finely chop 50 g of pre-washed and dried dill, add it to the cheeses and mix well.
- Divide the filling into 4 equal parts and roll the balls out of them.
Cooking Khachapuri
- Divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Roll each part of the dough into a small cake with a diameter of about 12-13 cm and a thickness of 0.4-0.6 cm.
- Lay the balls of cheese filling in the center of each cake.
- Connect the edges of the cake, completely covering the filling, you should get a ball. If the dough sticks to your hands, add a little flour.
- Roll the balls into cakes 0.6-0.8 cm thick. If in some places the dough is torn, it's okay.
- Spread the formed cakes on a preheated dry pan.
- Cover and fry for 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Put the finished khachapuri on a plate and grease a piece of butter on top. Khachapuri ready, serve whole or cut into portioned slices. Enjoy your meal.
Cooking Tips
- Instead of kefir, unsweetened yogurt or yogurt can be added to the dough.
- The filling may consist of one type of cheese, but it will be tastier if you use 2-4 varieties of different cheeses.
- You can add 1-2 raw eggs to the filling, they will be prepared by baking khachapuri.
- You can use any greens according to your desire, green onions, parsley, cilantro, spinach are suitable.
- For piquancy, you can add a little black or red pepper to the filling.
Video recipe
Thanks to the step-by-step video recipe, you can definitely cook khachapuri in your kitchen yourself.