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Zelnik

Name: Zelnik
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: North Macedonia
Ingredients: 400g Phyllo Dough; 300g Spinach; 200g Feta Cheese; 3 Egg; 150g Plain yogurt; 1 Green Onion (Long); 80ml Sunflower oil; A pinch Salt

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin pastry layered with spinach and white cheese and baked — a North Macedonian pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Zelnik is a layered pie eaten in North Macedonia and Bulgaria, named for its original filling of green leaves (zelje). Thin pastry is layered with spinach, leeks, white cheese, and egg and baked. There are versions with cabbage, meat, or leeks. It's eaten for breakfast with drinking yogurt.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in a North Macedonian home, a pie baked in a round tray is cut into diamonds and served with glasses of cold drinking yogurt.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Phyllo Dough 400g
Spinach 300g
Feta Cheese 200g
Egg 3
Plain yogurt 150g
Green Onion (Long) 1
Sunflower oil 80ml
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the spinach, squeeze dry, and chop.
Sauté chopped leek in 1 tbsp oil and mix with the spinach, crumbled feta, and 2 eggs.
Oil a pan and layer the phyllo, brushing each sheet with oil and tucking filling between layers here and there.
Mix 1 egg with yogurt and brush over the top.
Bake at 190°C for 40 minutes and cut.

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