Traditional Georgian khachapuri recipe with puff pastry cheese

If you are asked to describe what is khachapuri, then you can explain that it is pastry from a puff pastry with the addition of suluguni cheese (or some other). But this, believe me, is too little to describe such a wonderful and insanely delicious Georgian dish. To date, there are many recipes that step by step explain how to cook khachapuri with puff pastry cheese. Such products are made mainly with the addition of cheese, although sometimes they use cottage cheese. Also, some housewives use, instead of a puff pastry, for example, butter. But I must say that the original and traditional Georgian recipe implies the use of a puff pastry. First you need to decide what kind of khachapuri you want to cook, and what kind of dough you need for this. Here we offer you a real khachapuri recipe with puff pastry cheese.

You will need the following ingredients:

• Eggs - 2 pieces;
• Suluguni cheese - 400-500 grams;
• Butter - 2 tablespoons;
• Puff pastry - 1 kilogram.

Preparation

Having decided on the products and their quantity, study the step-by-step instructions with which you can easily prepare khachapuri:

1. Suluguni cheese is rubbed on a large grater. A fine grater will not work, as the traditional recipe for khachapuri with puff pastry cheese provides for large pieces of cheese. This is necessary in order to melt, they were softer and tastier.
2. Add one egg and one tablespoon of melted butter. Stir everything in a large cup.
3. Roll the puff pastry to a thickness of about 5 millimeters. We cut it with squares and lay out the filling.
4. Fasten the corners best of all "envelope." So they will not open, and you will not lose part of the filling.
5. After you have sealed the edges with the "envelope", you need to pull them to the middle. Doing this is not necessary, because in the store you can often find such products - in the form of an envelope, but the traditional recipe for khachapuri with puff pastry, popular in Asian countries, means a rounded shape.
6. Having fastened the product, you put it by stitching it down on the oiled table and rolling it out with a rolling pin. You should get flat cakes, which must be placed on a greased baking sheet and put into the oven.
7. The oven should be heated to 250 degrees. Khachapuri fry about 20 minutes, this is enough to make the pastry dough, and the cheese is completely melted.
8. After 20 minutes we remove the resulting ruddy products and give them some time to cool down. Do not lubricate with oil. They should turn out to be crispy from the outside, and soft due to butter and cheese inside.

A small conclusion

As you can see, such a khachapuri recipe with a puff pastry cheese is quite simple in execution. It does not imply the use of any exotic products, these pancakes are prepared very quickly. In a situation where it is necessary to quickly prepare something delicious for guests, khachapuri is an excellent choice, because they are not only delicious, but also a useful dish because of the large amount of cheese.