COPPERKhachapuri adjaruli recipe
Bread boat filled with molten sulguni, finished out of the oven with a raw yolk and a knob of butter stirred in at the table.
Ingredients
- 300 g sulguni cheese
- 200 g imeruli cheese
- 500 g all-purpose flour
- 300 ml water
- 7 g active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 eggs
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
How to make Khachapuri adjaruli
- Dissolve 7 g yeast and 1 tbsp sugar in 300 ml warm water and wait 10 minutes for a foam to form.
- Add 500 g flour, 1 tsp salt and 2 tbsp sunflower oil, knead 10 minutes, cover and let rise 1 hour 30 until doubled.
- Grate 300 g sulguni and crumble 200 g imeruli. If you cannot find them, low moisture mozzarella and feta are the accepted substitutes, but the sour tang of sulguni is what the filling is built on.
- Divide the dough into 4, roll each piece into an oval, spread the cheese down the middle, roll the two long sides inward and pinch the ends into points to form a boat.
- Bake at 250 °C for 12 to 15 minutes until the crust is deep golden and the cheese bubbles.
- Pull the tray out, push the cheese aside with a spoon to open a well, drop a raw egg yolk into it and add 4 tbsp butter.
- Serve immediately. The yolk must stay runny: you tear off the tip of the crust and use it to stir yolk, butter and cheese into a cream. Never bake it until the egg sets.
What is Khachapuri adjaruli?
Khachapuri adjaruli is a traditional dish from Georgia, baked in the oven, and takes about 2 hours and 20 minutes from start to finish. It is built around all-purpose flour, sulguni cheese and imeruli cheese. The recipe below uses 10 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Khachapuri adjaruli take?
At 140 minutes it is slower than 59% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 40 dishes built on all-purpose flour. The method runs to 7 steps, the longest being 15 minutes.
Any tips for making Khachapuri adjaruli?
Add the raw yolk and butter once the boat is out of the oven and never bake until the egg sets: the yolk must stay runny.
How Khachapuri adjaruli compares
Hard to find elsewhere: sulguni cheese (1), imeruli cheese (1) and active dry yeast (3).
Cooked with the same thing elsewhere
Other traditional dishes built on active dry yeast, from other countries.
- Lahoh 🇩🇯 Djibouti
- Mkatra foutra 🇰🇲 Comoros
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