Khachapuri

Stuffed Cheese Breads

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    individual stuffed cheese breads
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Khachapuri, a word meaning “filled bread,” is a popular street and restaurant food in Georgian Russia, but also a homemade specialty. There are many versions and types of cheese fillings, but the filling usually includes suluguni, a stringy cheese that is not available in this country. Here the khachapuri are stuffed with a filling of mild melting cheese and fresh herbs popular in the area around Georgia, Turkey, and Armenia—mint and coriander. Originally these breads w