Flatbreads with garlic and cheese
Description
This recipe won’t take long. For the flatbreads, sift the wheat flour and combine it with baking soda, sugar, and salt. Then add warm kefir. The finished dough is pliable, rolls out nicely, and shapes easily. For the filling you can use any cheese you prefer. I like Suluguni—it melts easily and stretches inside the hot flatbread. See every detail in my step‑by‑step recipe. Good luck, and enjoy tasty flatbreads.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for the dough and the filling. I add fresh‑frozen greens that I keep from summer in the freezer.
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Step 2
Sift nearly all the flour into a bowl, reserving a little for flouring the work surface; add baking soda, salt, and sugar, and stir. Make a well in the center.
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Step 3
Pour in warm kefir and start mixing the dough with a spoon. If the kefir is low-fat, add a spoonful of sunflower oil while kneading.
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Step 4
The dough should be elastic: it should not stick to your hands, but it should not be too stiff either. Cover it with a towel for now so it does not dry out.
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Step 5
Make the filling for the flatbreads. Grate sulguni on the coarse side of a grater, add minced garlic, chopped greens, and a little black pepper. Salt is optional—I don’t add any.
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Step 6
Mix well—the filling is ready.
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Step 7
Divide the dough into 4–5–6 pieces, depending on the desired size of the flatbreads. I find it convenient to divide it into 4. Now roll out one piece of dough—not too thin.
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Step 8
Spread the fourth portion of the cheese filling.
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Step 9
Gather the dough into a pouch and seal it well so the filling doesn’t peek out.
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Step 10
Turn it knot-side down.
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Step 11
With your fingers or a rolling pin, stretch (roll out) the flatbread to 14-15 cm. I find it convenient to do this "in the air" — the dough stretches more easily this way and the filling is distributed evenly.
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Step 12
Heat a cast-iron skillet well—there’s no need to grease it; the flatbreads cook dry. Lower the flame, place the flatbread in the pan and fry covered until you get a golden crust.
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Step 13
Flip them over and fry the other side under a lid. While they cook, they will puff up a little and then deflate.
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Step 14
Hot flatbreads can be brushed with butter or vegetable oil (with garlic).
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Step 15
Remove from the oven and serve warm or at room temperature.