Cheesy Georgian Flatbread Delight

An incomparable dish of Georgian cuisine! Try! They eat flatbreads with cheese, as they say, piping hot, and if they cool down, they can be reheated in the microwave or oven, greased with butter. The taste of hot Georgian flatbreads with cheese filling inside is impossible to describe in words, you have to try it.
cook time: 4h 30 min
Chloe Benton
Cheesy Georgian Flatbread Delight

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

283
Calories
18g
Fat
19g
Carbs
12g
Protein

Ingredients (20 portions)

For filling:

Butter 50 g
Eggs 2 pc
Suluguni 1 kg

To grease the flatbreads:

Eggs 1 pc
Sour cream 1 tbsp

For dough:

Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 2 tsp
Wheat flour 800 g
Butter 100 g
Milk 1 cup
Eggs 1 pc
Vegetable oil 150 g
Dry yeast 1 tbsp
Matsoni 500 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Heat the milk to about 40 degrees, add dry yeast and a pinch of sugar, add 2-3 tbsp. sunflower oil, sprinkle with flour and place in a warm place for half an hour. When the yeast has dispersed, pour it into a large bowl, add sugar, salt, egg, matsoni, add almost all the flour and stir the dough.

Step 2

Step 2
Coat the lump of dough with sunflower oil poured into your palm. Gradually add the rest of the flour and butter. The dough should become soft and elastic. Knead the dough for 20 minutes until it is completely smooth.

Step 3

Step 3
Then grease a large bowl with sunflower oil and place the dough rolled into a ball. Place the bowl in a warm place for an hour. After an hour, knead the dough.

Step 4

Step 4
And put it again in a warm place for 1.5 hours. The dough will rise approximately 3 times.

Step 5

Step 5
Letʼs start preparing the filling, for which we take 1 kg of suluguni, grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add 50 g of softened butter and 2 eggs. Mix the filling with your hand and roll into 5 balls.

Step 6

Step 6
Divide the dough according to the number of cakes (in this case, into 5 parts) and roll each part into a ball. Cover the rolled balls with a towel and wait 10 minutes for them to rest and rise.

Step 7

Step 7
Roll each ball into a round cake and distribute the filling.

Step 8

Step 8
We connect the free edges into a bag and pinch it well.

Step 9

Step 9
Turn the cake over and roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of 1 cm. Pierce the cake with a fork in several places and pick out a hole in the middle.

Step 10

Step 10
Transfer the cake to a baking sheet or mold greased with sunflower oil. Beat the egg and one spoon of sour cream and grease the flatbread with it. Letʼs wait another half hour. Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes.

Step 11

Step 11
So that the cheese sets a little and does not leak out when slicing, wait 10 minutes until the flatbreads cool. After this you can serve.

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