Skalitsa Banitsa

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 500 g phyllo pastry
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup yoghurt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 200 g bulgarian cheese
• sunflower oil

Recipe

• 1 - turn the oven on to a temperature of 170°c.
• 2 - put the eggs, flour, baking powder and yoghurt in a bowl and mix well together and put to one side.
• 3 - unwrap the pastry and lay all the sheets on the plastic wrapping on the work surface.
• 4 - lightly grease a baking tray big enough to take the width of the pastry when rolled up.
• 5 - trickle oil over the whole area of top layer of the pastry and then dribble the mixture randomly over the pastry.
• 6 - sprinkle sirene evenly over the oil based pastry.
• 7 - roll two layers along the length of the pastry and place it on the baking tray - make sure you roll the pastry very loosely.
• 8 - repeat the same process until all the sheets of pastry have been used.
• 9 - if there is any mixture left over brush the top of the parcel rolls in the tray, if there is none left brush some oil over the tops of the skalitsa banitsas.
• 10 - place the tray in the now hot oven and bake for 20 minutes.
• 11 recipe originally published in http://www.ourbulgarianworld.com.