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Lobiani

Name: Lobiani
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Georgia
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 400g Beans (cooked); 1 Onion; 1 tsp Ground Coriander; 2 tbsp Butter; 200ml Milk

Snack

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Bread stuffed with mashed kidney beans — a traditional Georgian bean bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lobiani is a traditional Georgian bread made the same way as khachapuri, but filled with beans cooked soft and roughly mashed with herbs. The coriander-scented bean filling is humble but deeply satisfying, and it's eaten during religious fasts as well — an everyday food long loved by ordinary Georgians.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Tbilisi bakery, fresh lobiani is lined up and commuters queue to buy it for breakfast.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Beans (cooked) 400g
Onion 1
Ground Coriander 1 tsp
Butter 2 tbsp
Milk 200ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead bread flour, yeast, milk, and salt and let rise for about 1 hour.
Roughly mash the cooked beans and mix with sautéed onion and coriander for the filling.
Roll the dough into rounds, wrap the filling, and flatten into a disc again.
Cook both sides in a frying pan or bake in the oven until golden.
Brush with butter.

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