Bulgarian recipe
How to make Banitsa
banitsa (баница)
All of Bulgaria
A pie of thin filo pastry layered with a filling of whisked eggs, yogurt and crumbled white cheese, baked until golden. It is eaten for breakfast, hot or cold, with yogurt, ayran or boza.
Ingredients
- 400 g filo pastry sheets
- 4 eggs
- 250 g plain yogurt
- 300 g sirene or feta cheese, crumbled
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 100 g butter, melted, or 100 ml sunflower oil
Method
- Heat the oven to 200°C and brush a round or square baking dish with butter.
- Stir the baking soda into the yogurt, then whisk in the eggs and the crumbled cheese.
- Lay 2 sheets of filo in the dish, brush with butter and spread a few spoonfuls of filling on top. Repeat, loosely crumpling the sheets if you like, until everything is used, ending with a sheet of filo.
- Brush the top with the rest of the butter and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until deep golden and set in the middle.
- Rest for 10 minutes, then cut into pieces. Serve warm with a glass of yogurt or ayran.
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On New Year's Eve, lucky charms such as coins, small dogwood twigs or wishes written on paper are baked into the banitsa.
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