Khachapuri is a Georgian dish of cheese-filled bread. The bread is leavened and allowed to rise, molded into various shapes, and then filled in the center with a mixture of cheese, and sometimes eggs
Imeretian khachapuri, the most typical style of this dish among its many regional varieties
A Georgian restaurant, Hachapuri, in Budapest, Hungary
Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired
Khachapuri
…its specific root remains unclear. Dali Tsatava, former professor at the Georgian Culinary Academy, suggested that khachapuri could be a "cousin of the pizza" as the concept of the dish might have been brought by Roman soldiers who crossed Europe, well before the addition of tomatoes in the 16th century…
A veggie pizza divided into eight slices
An illustration from 1830 of a pizzaiolo in Naples
Pizza dough being kneaded before being left undisturbed and allowed time to proof
Tossing pizza dough to stretch it