Chvishtari

Chvishtari - recipe with photo, Georgian cuisine
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Cooking Time:
40 min.
Recipe Yield:
8-10 pcs
Difficulty:
Medium recipe

Chvishtari is made from the same dough as mchadi, but with the addition of hard suluguni cheese. Sometimes cheese is wrapped in dough, and sometimes chopped suluguni is mixed with corn dough.

Recipe Ingredients

Cornmeal 400 g
Butter 20-30 g
Water 200 ml
Sugar 0.5 tsp
Salt 0.5 tsp

Cooking Recipe

For chvishtari, make a dough of cornmeal, salt, butter, salt and sugar, the dough should not be hard and dry, but slightly damp.

Cheese cut into small cubes. Wet your hands with water, take a small amount of dough and wrap a cube of cheese in it. Shape into a patty or ball shape.

Fry chvishtari in vegetable oil until golden, and then put on a napkin and let the excess oil drain.