Lazy Banitsa
Lazy banitsa skips the filo: a batter of eggs, yoghurt and flour with plenty of crumbled sirene, poured into a tin and baked until puffed — the Bulgarian breakfast pie for mornings with no time to layer sheets.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 20 g butter, for the tin
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 400 g Bulgarian yoghurt
- 4 eggs
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 250 g plain flour
- 300 g Bulgarian sirene, crumbled
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 3082 kcal · P 57.7g · C 220.6g · F 141.9g
Estimated from 7 of 7 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 190°C/375°F and butter a 25 × 30 cm baking tin.
- 2Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the yoghurt and leave for 2 minutes until it foams and rises.
- 3Beat the eggs in a large bowl, then whisk in the yoghurt and the oil.
- 4Add the flour gradually, whisking, until you have a smooth batter about as thick as a thick pancake batter.
- 5Fold in all but a handful of the sirene and pour into the tin.
- 6Scatter the remaining sirene on top and bake for 35–40 minutes, until puffed and golden and a skewer pushed into the centre comes out clean.
- 7Leave to cool for 10 minutes, then cut into squares and serve warm.
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Questions and answers
How long does Lazy Banitsa take to make?
About 55 minutes: 15 min prep and 40 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Lazy Banitsa?
7 ingredients: butter, bicarbonate of soda, Bulgarian yoghurt, eggs, sunflower oil, plain flour, Bulgarian sirene.
How many servings does this Lazy Banitsa recipe make?
8 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Lazy Banitsa?
About 385 kcal, with 7.2 g protein, 27.6 g carbohydrate and 17.7 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Lazy Banitsa recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Lazy Banitsa?
Lazy Banitsa comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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