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Khachapuri Imeruli

იმერული ხაჭაპური

Original: Khachapuri Imeruli

Transliteration · Imeruli khachapuri

One of several regional khachapuri forms. This page follows the Imeretian round bread as cooked by the Tskitishvili family.

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Where it is recorded

  • Tbilisi

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  • Georgian

Occasions

  • Wedding

Ingredients

  • Sulguni · სულგუნი

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    The sound of the cheese bread

    Nino Tskitishvili judges a khachapuri by the sound it makes when you tear it. If the cheese whispers, it is ready. If it shouts, the oven was too proud. In Tbilisi her Imeretian round bread is for guests who did not warn her, which is to say for everyone. She folds sulguni into a dough she does not measure. A handful of flour until it feels right. Cook until done. At weddings the khachapuri sits beside satsivi. Bread first, she says, then the walnut. The table is not a performance. It is a sentence with many clauses.

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