Banitza - Baked Cheese Pastry
From aussie_meat_pie 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Banitza is one of the most popular and typical Bulgarian dishes, more of a breakfast or snack thing than a main course. There are many shapes and varieties of banitza - with cheese, spinach or butternut squash, but the cheese one is the most common and famous one.
Ingredients
- 10-12 sheets Filo pastry (it is difficult to roll the sheets in the correct thickness, so I suggest you buy the ready made ones from your supermarket) shopping list
- 500 gr white cheese (you can use feta although it is not quite the same as the Bulgarian White Brined Cheese - you can buy this cheese online) shopping list
- 1/2 pack butter (melted) shopping list
- 3-4 eggs shopping list
- 250 ml soda water shopping list
- pinch of salt shopping list
How to make it
- Oil a medium size deep oven dish, cover bottom with a sheet of filo pastry, sprinkle melted butter, sprinkle crumbled white cheese, and continue layering filo pastry with butter and cheese. Finish with a layer of filo pastry and butter. In a separate dish beat the eggs, add salt, and soda water. Pour slowly over the dish with the banitza and let it soak in. Cook in a preheated oven (180-200 C) for about 40 minutes or until the banitza has risen slightly and has nicely browned on top. Leave to cool for about 30 minutes and serve. I like it with greek yoghurt on the side.
- If you wish you can add sauteed spinach when layering the banitza.
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Ohhhhhhh yummmmmmmm i love these type of things good i have had brie in puff pastry but this sounds really good...........im printing it thank you so much ........awesome you can put the other things too.......
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wow gotta love it all those delicous flavors too high5 thanks
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I adore these kind of recipes, great post!
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