Banica - one of the favorite foods in Bulgaria. It is served in the cafe-bakery that is called banicharnitsa as in small towns or villages, and in the cities. At the same time in different regions of the country can try a completely dissimilar in shape and fillings versions of this dish - from a small patty to a huge birthday cake.
No feast in Bulgaria is not without Banjica. Most often it is cooked with cottage cheese or feta cheese, but you can try this dish with other, for example, meat fillings or pumpkin. Traditionally Banicza served chilled yoghurt and ayran.
This dish - ideal second breakfast or snack. And if you do not have time to mess around with the dough, you can buy ready-made puff without yeast in the store.
Offer as a basis for the most simple and affordable recipe Bulgarian Banjica, having mastered that you can experiment with fillings and find your perfect option.
INGREDIENTS dTo test
• Flour - 3 cups
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Water - 300 ml.
• Butter - 50 g
• Salt - a pinch
• wine or apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
INGREDIENTS For filling
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Sour (yoghurt, kefir) - 100 g
• Cheeses (can substitute cheese) - 350 g
PREPARATION Step by step
1. Sift flour and salt is added thereto, warm water, vinegar, oil, egg. Mix everything with a spoon, then knead the dough by hand until it becomes homogeneous. The dough should have elastic and not too steep.
2. Divide the dough into kruglyashi size of an apple, cover with a towel and leave for 20-30 minutes to rest.
3. In the meantime, we do stuffing. Simply mix the grated cheese on a fine grater (or cottage cheese) from raw eggs and yogurt. All mix thoroughly.
4. Melt the butter on the stove and mix it with vegetable.
5. Roll out the dough very thin, you can also stretch a little with his hands, so that it was no thicker than a sheet of paper.
6. In the rolled sheet is uniformly thinly spread the filling can even just smear it in the test. Additionally, you can lubricate the mixture of butter and vegetable oil. Close and curl up in a sausage. Similarly we proceed with the rest of kruglyashami test.
7. Baking dish lubricating oil, it is possible to lay it with parchment paper for baking. Put the sausages one by one as "snail." If you have a rectangular shape, it is possible to spread banitsa flat strips. On how you lay out sausages will depend on the appearance of the pie. Top grease mixture of oil and yogurt.
8. Preheat the oven to 180-190 degrees and bake it for 15-20 minutes banitsa. Then diminish the temperature to 120 degrees (or cake cover with foil) and bake for 10-15 minutes. We give a little cool, cut into portions and serve. In terms banitsa looks like a layer cake. Bon Appetit!
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