Banitsa with cottage cheese

Cookinero 28 Jan 2023

Banitsa is a Bulgarian layer cake made from unleavened dough. Most often, banitsa is cooked with cheese or cottage cheese, but they are also made with minced meat, spinach, cabbage, pumpkin, and even crushed nuts.

How to cook Banitsa with cottage cheese

Step 1

1. Sift flour, mix with baking powder, add melted butter and water; knead the dough. Roll the dough into a ball, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Rub cottage cheese through a sieve, beat with eggs. 2. Place honey, sugar and butter in a saucepan and melt over medium heat, stirring constantly. 3. Add a mixture of honey and butter and sugar to the curd. Lightly salt. To stir thoroughly. 4. Roll out the dough on a floured surface into a very thin, elongated layer (approximate dimensions of the layer: width - 25 cm, length - 50 cm), immediately grease the surface of the dough with melted butter. Lay out the curd filling in an even layer, leaving 1.5 cm margins free. 5. Gently roll the dough with the filling into a roll. Fasten the edges with wet hands. 6. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a baking sheet with oil. Put the roll on a baking sheet, roll it up like a snail, brush with a beaten egg. Secure the free end of the roll. Bake 35-40 min. Cover the finished bannitsa with a wet napkin, put a dry towel folded 4 times on top and let stand for 10 minutes. Serve warm.

BTW Bannitsa is a Bulgarian puff pastry pie. There are several ways to prepare it, we have chosen perhaps the simplest. Most often, bannitsa is cooked with cheese or cottage cheese, but they are also made with minced meat, spinach, cabbage, pumpkin, and even crushed nuts.

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