Khachapuri

No feast would seem proper without the marvelous cheese bread, khachapuri. Khachapuri is found throughout Georgia in many guises—round, rectangular, and boat-shaped. The dough can be yeasty with a thick crust, many-layered and flaky, or tender and cakelike. The bread is usually filled with a fresh, slightly sour cheese like imeruli (Imeretian) or suluguni, but salted cheeses like bryndza may also be used, as long as they are soaked first. […] For those desiring extra sustenance, the khachapuri may be topped with a cracked egg and returned to the oven until the egg sizzles. My favorite version of this cholesterol-rich khachapuri is the adzharuli khachapuri or Adzharian cheese bread, found in Batumi on the Black Sea coast and appropriately boat-shaped.

At the waiter's suggestion, they added mushroom soup and khachapuri, the traditional and ubiquitous Georgian cheese bread.

On the breakfast table I can see the remains of: sturgeon, caviare (pink and black), blinies, cottage cheese and two other cheeses, buckwheat, hatchapuri—a bread cheese—and sour cream, hashi (stew), radishes and spring onions […]

After Varadzia had served Svobodova with sturgeon and the local delicacy, a hatchapuri—a sort of paratha stuffed with cheese—washed down with a glass of the Lomnja red wine, he sat down and took a pipe with the stranger.

Another delicious Georgian dish was Hachapuri. This is a kind of flat bread with soft cheese and butter in the middle, more butter melted all over the top. There are different kinds of Hachapuri, reflecting the different areas, but all of it is absolutely fantastic. People eat it as a matter of course at almost every meal.

Kargi Gogo, the downtown food cart devoted to the cuisine of Georgia, reopened last week with a new menu devoted to the country's signature dish, khachapuri, or cheesy bread. The new menu highlights four traditional Georgian khachapuris, including the traditional, a pupusa-liked disc stuffed with sulguni (a farmers cheese), plus one with extra cheese melted on top and another with ham and bacon.