Georgian Cheese Bread

Ingredients for Georgian Cheese Bread

• 2 1/4 cuillères à café de levure sèche active (un paquet de 1/110g)

• 110ml warm water (105-46°C)

• 400ml unbleached plain flour, divided

• 3/4 cuillères à café de sel

• 1 gros œuf, légèrement battu

• 110g Havarti cheese, coarsely grated

• 110g salted mozzarella, coarsely grated

• 1 teaspoon unsalted butter, melted

• a floured pizza pan (at least 12 inches) or a floured large baking sheet

Sprinkle yeast over warm water and stir in 1 tablespoon flour. Let stand until creamy, about 5 minutes. (If yeast does not activate, start over with new yeast.)

Stir together salt and remaining flour in a large bowl, then stir in egg and yeast mixture to form a dough.

Turn out dough onto a well-floured surface and turn to coat with flour, then knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. Form into a ball and dust with flour. Let dough rest in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap, punching down with a wet fist every hour, at least 2 hours and up to 3.

Preheat oven to 260°C with rack in middle.

Turn out dough onto floured pizza pan, turning to coat, then flatten with your fingers into a 7-inch disk.

Toss together cheeses and press into a compact 3-inch ball with your hands. Place ball in middle of dough, then gather dough up around ball of cheese, squeezing excess dough into a topknot. Press down on topknot with a damp fist to press cheese out from centre. Continue to flatten dough and distribute cheese evenly, pressing outward from centre, until dough is an 11-inch disk.

Cut a 6-inch X through top of dough to expose cheese. Bake until pale golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Brush surface of dough with butter and bake until golden and cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes more.

Serve cut into wedges.

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