In every cafe and restaurant, in every Georgian family, it is impossible to do without khachapuri. In many establishments you can try this delicious dish. Khachapuri is being sold in Georgia on every corner. Tortillas look insanely appetizing and delicious. Especially they attract cheese lovers. But what if you are on a diet and watch what you eat? Today, let’s look at the calorie content of khachapuri with cheese, and also study some recipes for its preparation.
About Khachapuri
Khachapuri is a typical Georgian national dish, which is a tortilla with cheese. The following varieties of khachapuri are distinguished:
- Adjarian: the dough is thinly rolled out and formed into a boat. Cheese filling inside. Before cooking, break the raw egg on top and bake until cooked. One of the most popular and famous types of khachapuri.
- Imereti: a very thin closed cake made of yeast-free dough, fried in a pan on both sides. Stuffing - Imereti cheese.
- Megrelian: round cake, closed. Cheese toppings on top are also sprinkled with cheese, namely suluguni.
- Svan: lentils and hemp seeds are poured over cheese fillings.
- Rachinsky: have the form of a square or rectangle. The top is baked with egg yolk before baking. Round cakes are usually stuffed with four kinds of different cheeses and baked in the oven.
Structure
What kind of filling can khachapuri do:
- With an egg;
- With cheese;
- With meat;
- With cottage cheese and cheese;
- With potatoes;
- With cottage cheese;
- Suluguni;
- With greens;
- With feta cheese and so on.
However, the classic version of khachapuri is still cheese and eggs. Everything else is adapted versions of the dish for Russian cuisine.
Calorie content
Let's find out about the energy value of the product.
So, the calorie content per 100 grams of khachapuri with cheese is 280 kcal.
And how many calories in one serving? Calorie 1 pc. khachapuri with cheese - about 480 kcal.
One way or another, this dish is not recommended for people who want to lose weight, as it contains a lot of fat (26 g per 100 grams of product). If you really wanted khachapuri, eat half, and give the second to friends or relatives. The dish is very nutritious, so you can well get enough of a small amount. Moreover, it is better that day to reduce fat intake, as well as visit the gym, walk with the dog or just go for an evening walk. This will help to lose excess calories gained after eating khachapuri.
Khachapuri Recipe
The classic Khachapuri recipe uses exactly the Imereti cheese. But buying it is problematic if you do not live in Georgia. How can it be replaced? Consider several options:
- Adyghe cheese;
- Brynza
- Homemade cottage cheese;
- Suluguni;
- Feta;
- Mozzarella;
- Adyghe + cheese;
- Adyghe + Suluguni;
- Brynza + Suluguni, etc.
The way you add the cheese depends on how viscous, tender, and salty the filling will turn out.
Traditionally, yogurt (fermented milk drink of Georgian and Armenian cuisines) is taken for making khachapuri dough. But then again, it’s hard to buy, living in Russia. Therefore, you can use kefir or sour cream.
Cooking dough for khachapuri with cheese
What we need:
- 250 ml of yogurt (125 ml of kefir and the same amount of sour cream);
- a pack of butter;
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 0.5 teaspoon of soda.
Cooking the dough:
- For the test, we need softened butter. Therefore, two hours before cooking, let it melt at room temperature.
- Kefir is mixed with sour cream, add sugar, salt and soda.
- Melt the butter. Mix with sour cream.
- Pour the flour, knead the dough.
This method of making dough for khachapuri will be taken as the basis for all recipes.
Khachapuri Stuffing
Ingredients:
- 200 g Adyghe cheese and suluguni;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of oil;
- a pinch of salt.
Method of preparing the filling:
- Cheese must be grated.
- Add the softened butter, salt and add the sour cream.
- Stir the mass well.
Cooking Khachapuri with Cheese
- The dough is divided into four parts. Take one slice and roll it thinly.
- Put in a quarter of the entire filling. Collect the edges of the dough and slap them so that a pouch is formed, inside of which is a cheese filling.
- Now make a cake out of the bag. Thickness is about one and a half centimeters.
- Fold in the pan. We will fry without oil. Cook under the lid, frying on each side for several minutes.
- We stack the khachapuri in a pile, smearing each with butter.
The dish is ready. Cover to prevent the cakes from cooling. Serve hot.
Puff Khachapuri
Now we offer you to simplify the preparation of khachapuri and make a dish of puff pastry. The calorie content of khachapuri with cheese is increasing.
What we need:
- 500 gr suluguni;
- 3 sheets of puff pastry;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of butter.
Cooking Khachapuri:
- Rub cheese into a bowl.
- Butter should be melted either in a water bath or in the microwave. You can also just leave it at room temperature for two hours before cooking.
- Mix oil with one egg. Add all this to the cheese. Mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps in the oil.
- Roll out the dough well and cut into several parts. In each of them we put our filling. We fasten so that we get an envelope.
- Khachapuri spread on parchment on a baking sheet.
- Grease the khachapuri with a beaten egg, so that they turn out to be fried.
- Bake in the oven for about twenty minutes at 200 degrees.
The calorie content of puff khachapuri with cheese is 324 kcal per 100 grams of product. Nutritional value is as follows: 13 g of protein, 23 g of fat, 18 g of carbohydrates. If you follow the figure, then it is better to refrain from consuming such foods containing lots of fats and carbohydrates.
A few secrets to making khachapuri
Consider a few recommendations:
- Do not add a lot of flour when kneading the dough, otherwise the tortillas will not turn out soft.
- To make khachapuri lush, be sure to let the dough rise. Just leave it at room temperature for at least half an hour.
- To reduce the calorie content of khachapuri with cheese, use the dough on kefir, and for filling low-fat cheeses.
- To truly enjoy the filling, do not take cheese less than the weight of the dough in grams. Ideally, it is better to take more cheese for 100-200 g.
- If the cheese is too salty, soak it for three to four hours.
Now you can definitely cook the perfect khachapuri!
Conclusion
So, today we examined several interesting recipes of khachapuri that you can easily implement in your kitchen at home, studied the calorie content of khachapuri with cheese. Cooking is easy! Even if it is dishes of other national cuisine. Enjoy your meal!