Fried Cheese-Stuffed Kefir Flatbreads

Golden, puffy, soft, and fragrant flatbreads! This recipe is a keeper — plenty of us love flatbreads with tea or coffee, or use them in place of bread. These are especially good because the dough is made with kefir, which keeps them wonderfully tender and fluffy.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 24 % 13 g
Fats 33 % 18 g
Carbohydrates 43 % 23 g
298 kcal
GI: 4 / 0 / 96

Cooking method

Cooking time: 35 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    Take a deep bowl, pour in the kefir, and add the vegetable oil. Whisk them together until smooth. Add a little salt and sugar and mix everything thoroughly so there's no oily film on the surface.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Next, sift the flour into the same bowl.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Now add the baking powder and start mixing the dough, first with a spoon and then with your hands, until it stops sticking to your fingers and turns soft yet elastic. Cover the bowl with a towel or plastic wrap and let the dough rest for a while.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Grate the hard cheese on the fine side of a box grater. In another clean bowl, combine the grated cheese with the egg. If you like, add a little ground black pepper and salt (if the cheese isn't very salty).

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Take the rested dough and divide it into 8 equal portions. Roll each piece into a small ball. Set the balls on a floured board and cover them with a towel and plastic wrap so the dough doesn't dry out.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Take one ball and roll it into a thin round. Put a tablespoon of the cheese filling in the center.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Pinch the edges of the dough together over the top so the filling is sealed inside. Do the same with the rest of the dough balls.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Dust the filled pieces lightly with flour and roll them out with a rolling pin into flatbreads.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Once the flatbreads are shaped, take a heavy-bottomed skillet, brush it lightly with vegetable oil, and set it over medium heat. Add the flatbreads and fry them on both sides until golden.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Brush the finished flatbreads with a little butter and serve them right away, while they're warm. They're wonderful with sour cream or a sour cream–garlic sauce, which offsets the salty cheese and makes them taste even more tender.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Dutch cheese - 352  kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335  kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366  kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345  kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'steppe' - 362  kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347  kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377  kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400  kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363  kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340  kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395  kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420  kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364  kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360  kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'etorki' (sheep, hard) - 401  kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100  kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355  kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355  kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316  kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327  kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250  kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396  kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333  kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364  kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348  kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Kefir fat - 62  kcal/100g
  • Kefir of 1% fat content - 38  kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 'doctor beefy' 1,8% fat content - 45  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53  kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79  kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80  kcal/100g

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