Bulgaria

Banitsa (Cheese Pastry)

Author Bulgaria Ambassador
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Ingredients \ 2 pax
  • (For the pastry)
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 1 tbsp. salt
  • 2 eggs
  • flour (as much as can be absorbed)
  • 50 g yeast
  • (For the filling)
  • 400 g white cheese
  • 2 eggs
  • 400 g yoghurt
  • butter
Instructions

If you prepare the filo pastry from scratch, mix the milk, salt, sugar, eggs, yeast and flour and allow the dough to rise. Otherwise, buy ready-made filo sheets.
Tear small balls from the dough and roll out on a floured surface. Place the rolled-out sheet on aluminium foil. Spread a mixture of the eggs and cheese on each sheet. Use the foil to roll up the sheet. The rolled-up sheets are placed on a baking tray in the form of a spiral. Bake in a preheated oven at 200-250 °C until brown.

If you prepare the filo pastry from scratch, mix the milk, salt, sugar, eggs, yeast and flour and allow the dough to rise.
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