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Megruli Khachapuri
Olesia Hryhorenko
Pastry chef, Prymorskyi Bistro, Odesa, UA
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Megruli Khachapuri

2 h 30 min total50 min hands-onServes 4Medium

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The classic Georgian cheese bread with Imeretian brynza and sulguni inside, and more sulguni melted over the top.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Large bowl, Rolling pin, Baking steel or heavy tray, Oven at its hottest
Allergens
Gluten, Milk, Egg
Method
17 steps · 14 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Soft dough

Film

A yeasted dough with milk and a little fat, proved until it doubles and knocked back once.

Lean dough bakes to a cracker under this much cheese. The milk and fat keep it soft at the edge.

  • Wheat flour000 g
  • Milk000 g
Steps
5
Time
1.7 h
Hands-on
20 min

Makes 4 breads

Up to 1 day ahead, refrigerated

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Cheese filling

Two cheeses grated and mixed so one melts and one holds.

One cheese alone either runs out of the bread or sits in a lump. The mix is what stretches.

  • Milk000 g
  • Yeast000 g
Steps
2
Time
10 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes For 4 breads

Same day

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Wheat flour000 g
  • Milk000 g
  • Yeast000 g
  • Butter000 g
  • Imeretian cheese000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Sulguni, imeruli and what to use outside Georgia

TECHNIQUE6:00

Sealing and shaping so nothing leaks

KIT4:00

Baking on a steel in a domestic oven

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 17 STEPS

14 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 14 of the 17 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: sealing the seam so the cheese stays inside — step 10 of 17.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 11 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Olesia Hryhorenko watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Butter brushed on the moment it leaves the oven

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Cheese cold, dough warm

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Eating within ten minutes

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The dough hydration and the cheese ratio that melts without flooding.

Written by Olesia Hryhorenko. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $6.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

489 verified cooks · 86% said it worked

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