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Prekmurska Gibanica

Name: Prekmurska Gibanica
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Slovenia
Ingredients: 10 Phyllo Dough; 150g Poppy Seeds; 300g Cottage Cheese; 150g Walnuts; 3 Apples; 2 Egg; 200g Sugar; 300g Sour cream; 100g Butter; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; A pinch Vanilla Extract; 1 tbsp Lemon juice

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

A lavish cake of four layers — poppy seed, cottage cheese, walnut, and apple — from eastern Slovenia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Prekmurska gibanica is a traditional sweet of the Prekmurje region in northeastern Slovenia: four fillings — poppy seed, cottage cheese, walnut, and apple — are layered with thin pastry, repeated twice for eight layers, topped with sour cream, and baked. A feast for weddings and festivals, it's registered as an EU traditional specialty.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a rural wedding in eastern Slovenia, a square cake of many layers is cut, showing colorful bands in cross-section.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Phyllo Dough 10
Poppy Seeds 150g
Cottage Cheese 300g
Walnuts 150g
Apples 3
Egg 2
Sugar 200g
Sour cream 300g
Butter 100g
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Lemon juice 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Make four fillings: poppy seeds with 50g sugar; chopped walnuts with 50g sugar; cottage cheese with 1 egg and 50g sugar; and grated apple with cinnamon, 50g sugar, and lemon juice.
Mix the sour cream with 1 egg and vanilla.
Brush a pan with melted butter and lay in phyllo.
Spread the poppy seed, cheese, walnut, and apple fillings in order, with phyllo between each and a little sour cream drizzled on, repeating twice.
Spread sour cream and butter on top, bake at 180°C for 1 hour, and cool.

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