Khachapuri Adjaruli: The Boat-Shaped Cheese Bread
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Description
Khachapuri is Georgia's national bread — a cheese-filled dough that varies by region. The most spectacular version is Adjaruli (from the Adjara region on the Black Sea coast): shaped like a boat, filled with molten sulguni and imeruli cheese, and finished with a raw egg yolk and a knob of butter dropped into the centre just before serving. The diner stirs the egg and butter into the molten cheese, creating a rich, silky, golden filling, then tears pieces of the bread crust to dip into it.
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The Thread
—Neapolitan pizza (bread-cheese-heat, though structurally different), Turkish pide (boat-shaped bread with fillings — the Anatolian cousin), Argentine empanada (dough encasing a filling — different clo
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