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Banitsa

Name: Banitsa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Bulgaria
Ingredients: 10 Spring roll wrappers; 3 Egg; 200g Plain yogurt; 200g Feta Cheese; 60g Butter; 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

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⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin pastry layered with egg, yogurt, and white cheese and baked — Bulgaria's classic breakfast pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Banitsa is Bulgaria's national breakfast: a filling of egg, yogurt, and the white cheese 'sirene' is layered between thin sheets of pastry and baked. Some versions are coiled into spirals, others layered in squares. At Christmas and New Year, it's traditionally baked with slips of paper bearing fortunes inside. It's eaten with boza (a fermented drink) or the yogurt drink ayran.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Sofia bakery in the morning, fresh coiled banitsa fill big trays and commuters buy them with ayran on the way to work.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Spring roll wrappers 10
Egg 3
Plain yogurt 200g
Feta Cheese 200g
Butter 60g
Baking Powder 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the eggs, yogurt, crumbled feta, and baking powder to make the filling.
Have the melted butter ready.
Spread out one spring roll wrapper, brush with butter, spread thinly with filling, and roll up into a long rope.
Coil the ropes in a spiral starting from the center of an ovenproof dish.
Brush the top with butter and the remaining filling.
Bake at 180°C for 35–40 minutes until golden.

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