Flatbread Recipe with Cheese and Potato Filling – Balkarian Khychin Recipe
Experience the delightful process of crafting a mouthwatering flatbread dish, bursting with flavor and filled with rich, creamy mashed potatoes and melty cheese.
Servings 6 servings
Calories 212kcal
Ingredients
Ingredients for Flatbread Dough:
- ½ cup kefir
- ½ cup water
- 2 ½ - 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. baking soda
Flatbread Filling Ingredients:
- 4-5 potatoes
- 300 g cheese Adygea soft cheese, grated mozzarella, or farmers cheese
- Fresh herbs (parsley, dill, etc.), finely chopped
- Salt to your taste
Instructions
- Combine kefir with water in a deep bowl. Both ingredients should be at room temperature. Add salt and baking soda. Whisk everything together until combined. When baking soda starts reacting, the mixture should become fluffy.
- Sieve flour and add it to the main mixture. To make the process of kneading easier you can add it in bunches.
- Knead the dough. In the end, you should be not sticky and malleable at the same time. Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel (tea towel) and set it aside.
- Boil cubed potato in salted water until fully cooked through and mash it into one smooth texture without any lumps.
- Grate cheese; add it to the mash together with chopped fresh herbs (I have pardley here). If the cheese that you are using is on the plain scale of flavor, now will be a perfect time to add some salt. Feel free to taste while doing it.
- Divide dough into same-sized parts/balls 4-5 cm diameter each. Divide filling into the same amount. Sprinkle some flour on your working surface. Take a ball of dough and roll it into a flat circle. Place the filling in the middle.
- Fold the ends of the dough to the middle, so the filling stays in the middle.
- Roll out the ball with the filling into 5 mm thick flatbread. Be very careful so that the filling won’t stick outside.
- Warm skillet on medium heat. Place a flatbread on a bare not-smeared surface of the skillet and cover it with a lid.
- Wait until the flatbread dough rises and only then you can turn it to the other side.
- Cook on medium heat until both sides are golden and crispy.
- Transfer fried flatbread to the plate and smear with butter. Repeat all the motions for every flatbread.
- Make sure to cover the plate with a kitchen towel to preserve the warmth. Better served warm and with delicious Ayran - a cold savory yogurt-based beverage!
Notes
*calories per 100 g