Cheese and Herb Bread

Name: Cheese and Herb Bread (Khachapuri Tarkhunit)
Cuisine: Georgian
Ingredients: ½ pound (2 sticks) butter, softened; 8 eggs; Freshly ground black pepper; ½ pound feta cheese; 2 cups loosely packed fresh mint or tarragon; ½ pound farmer cheese; 1 teaspoon salt

Khachapuri Tarkhunit

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Georgian Feast

By Darra Goldstein

Published 1999

About

Follow the directions given in the recipe for Lobiani for making baking-soda dough. Substitute the following mixture for the bean filling:

Ingredients

8 eggs
½ pound (2 sticks) butter, softened
½

Asia
Georgia
Tbilisi
Summer
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Hard-boil the eggs. Cream the butter and add the mashed hard-boiled yolks, mixing well. Dice the whites and add to the egg mixture. Crumble the cheese and stir in. Finely chop the mint or tarragon and stir it in along with the salt and pepper to taste.