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Gibanica

Name: Gibanica
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Serbia
Ingredients: 400g Phyllo Dough; 300g Cottage Cheese; 150g Feta Cheese; 4 Egg; 250g Plain yogurt; 80ml Sunflower oil; 100ml Sparkling water; A pinch Salt

Snack

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Phyllo layered with cheese and egg and baked — a Serbian pie essential at breakfast and celebrations.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gibanica is Serbia's most beloved traditional pie: white cheese mixed with egg and yogurt is layered between thin sheets of pastry (kore), crumpled and stacked, and baked. Eaten for breakfast with yogurt, it's also always on the table at Christmas and family celebrations, and there's a custom of hiding a coin inside for luck.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in a Serbian home, square gibanica fresh from the oven is cut and set out with glasses of drinking yogurt.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Phyllo Dough 400g
Cottage Cheese 300g
Feta Cheese 150g
Egg 4
Plain yogurt 250g
Sunflower oil 80ml
Sparkling water 100ml
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Crumble the cheese in a bowl and mix with the eggs, yogurt, sparkling water, half the oil, and salt.
Oil a pan and lay in 2 sheets of phyllo.
Dip the remaining sheets one at a time in the cheese mixture and pack into the pan, crumpling them.
Pour the remaining cheese mixture and oil over the top.
Bake at 200°C for 35–40 minutes until golden, cool slightly, and cut.

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