Georgian Khachapuri: Oven-Baked Cheese and Egg Bread

Delicious, original — a holiday every day! Khachapuri with egg in the oven is a dish of Georgian national cuisine with a juicy filling. It is served as is — in a dough boat, always hot. Sticky melted cheese mixed with egg, it’s divinely delicious!
cook time: 1h 55 min
Liam Carson
Georgian Khachapuri: Oven-Baked Cheese and Egg Bread

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

2
Calories

Ingredients (4 portions)

Basic:

Vegetable oil 1 tbsp

For dough:

Wheat flour 400 g
Dry yeast 7 g
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Water 300 ml

For filling:

Water 150 l
Adyghe cheese 200 g
Mozzarella 180 g
Chicken eggs 6 pc
Butter 40 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make khachapuri with egg in the oven? First of all, prepare the necessary products. From cheese I have mozzarella and Adyghe. But the classic Georgian recipe uses Imeretian cheese or half and half with suluguni.

Step 2

Step 2
Take a large bowl, into which you then pour three hundred milliliters of warm boiled water, add one tablespoon of sugar and seven grams of dry instant yeast.

Step 3

Step 3
Add three tablespoons of all-purpose flour from the total amount to a common bowl.

Step 4

Step 4
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth and place it in a warm place to activate the yeast for fifteen minutes.

Step 5

Step 5
After the time has passed, take a fine sieve and sift three hundred grams of premium wheat flour in parts into a bowl with activated yeast and add one teaspoon of salt to the bowl.

Step 6

Step 6
Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl and knead the dough.

Step 7

Step 7
Bring the dough together in the bowl with your hands, then add two tablespoons of vegetable oil to the bowl.

Step 8

Step 8
Continue to thoroughly knead the dough in the bowl with your hands until the desired consistency is achieved for ten minutes, then cover the bowl with a napkin and place it in a warm place for one hour.

Step 9

Step 9
After one hour, sprinkle the work surface with a small amount of flour and lay out the dough, which then knead well for about two minutes.

Step 10

Step 10
Form the kneaded dough and divide into four identical pieces, which in turn roll into balls and cover them with a napkin and leave to rise for twenty minutes.

Step 11

Step 11
To prepare the filling, place in a deep bowl and mash two hundred grams of Adyghe cheese in it, then take a large grater and grate one hundred and eighty grams of mozzarella cheese into the bowl with Adyghe cheese and mix the cheeses together.

Step 12

Step 12
Break one chicken egg into a bowl with cheese, then add one hundred and fifty to two hundred milliliters of warm boiled water to it and mix all the ingredients well in the bowl until smooth.

Step 13

Step 13
Place each dough ball one at a time on a table sprinkled with a small amount of flour and roll out to flat cakes two millimeters thick.

Step 14

Step 14
Mix the prepared filling well in the bowl one more time and place one tablespoon of it on each opposite edge of the tortilla.

Step 15

Step 15
Fold the edges of the filled tortillas over each side.

Step 16

Step 16
Form some kind of boats from the dough, then glue the edges well.

Step 17

Step 17
Place the formed pieces on a baking sheet greased with a small amount of vegetable oil, then fill each piece with three tablespoons of filling and place in a warm place to proof.

Step 18

Step 18
After fifteen minutes, place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to two hundred and twenty degrees and bake the khachapuri for ten minutes.

Step 19

Step 19
Remove the baking sheet from the oven after ten minutes and brush the pastry with beaten egg.

Step 20

Step 20
Place one chicken egg and ten grams of butter in each pastry.

Step 21

Step 21
Place the baking sheet in the oven for another two minutes.

Step 22

Step 22
After the time has passed, remove the baking sheet with the prepared khachapuri from the oven.

Step 23

Step 23
Remove the cooked khachapuri with egg from the baking sheet and place on plates, then serve.

Step 24

Step 24
Letʼs cook together, cook simply, prepare at home the most delicious dishes from available products using our recipes! Bon appetit and soulful tea party!

Additional rubrics

Related recipes