This is a second blog on the Georgain Cheese bread, also known as Khachapuri or Hachapuri, because I guess my pictures looked so good that people have been asking me for the recipe. Well I don’t blame them, it is delicious and well worth and easy to make.
This is the recipe for the dough:
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup yoghurt
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
Put all but 1/2 cup of flour into a bowl with the baking soda and salt and mix together. Work the butter into the flour until evenly distributed. Whisk together the yogurt and egg, make a well in the middle of the flour and add the egg and yogurt, mix the dough together to make a soft dough adding the half cup of flour if necesssary. Allow the dough to rest 30 minutes in the refrigerator before you roll it out.
Filling:
This is approximate amounts, I did not measure:
1 bunch spinach, chopped
2 anchovies, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 bunch mint, chopped
1 cup ricotta cheese
1/2 cup grated mozzarella
Saute the spinach with the garlic and anchovies until the spinach is wilted. Place in a bowl, add the cheese and chopped mint and stir together.
As I said in the previous post - you can make this into one big bread or it will make 4 small ones as pictured here which is what I prefer.
The directions for shaping the dough are in yesterday’s post.
Enjoy!
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What a delicious bread. With a little salad its enough for a light meal.
Comment by rosie cabral — January 31, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Thanks Rosie, you should try it. I made it again on the weekend and stuffed it with prosciutto and emmenthal cheese and it was good - not as good as this spinach version though.
Comment by Christine Picheca — February 4, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
OMG! I haven’t had this bread in at least 1 million years! My Ukranian grandmother used to make it and we called (phoentic spelling here folks!) plah-cheen-itz. My baba used to serve it with a white brorsht that once I became a chef I realized was almost the same as vichychoisse.
So delish! Thanks for reminding me of this great recipe.
Comment by dana — February 5, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Dana, glad it looks authentic, I have never scene the real thing up close. I’m sure my liberties would horrify your Ukranian grandmother. I also serve it quite often with soup.
Comment by Christine Picheca — February 12, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Made this didn’t have any mint but it was delicious ! Thanks.Hilary in Langley.B.C.
Comment by Hilary Randall — February 29, 2008 @ 12:46 pm