Prep25 min
Cook50 min
Total75 min
Milk banitsa — filo layered loosely in a tin and flooded with sweet vanilla custard before baking.
Ingredients
Serves:10
Ingredients
- 400 g filo pastry sheets
- 700 ml milk
- 5 pieces eggs
- 180 g sugar
- 120 g butter, melted
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 2 tbsp icing sugar, to dust
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidence266kcal · per serving
6.4g
Protein
27.6g
Carbs
14.9g
Fat
Recipe total: 2665 kcal · P 63.8g · C 276.2g · F 149g
Estimated from 8 of 8 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 180°C and butter a deep 30x20 cm tin.
- 2Crumple each filo sheet loosely — do not lay it flat — and pack the crumpled sheets upright into the tin, brushing each with melted butter as you go. The air pockets are what let the custard get in.
- 3Bake the pastry alone for 10 minutes until it begins to colour.
- 4Whisk the eggs with the sugar until pale, then whisk in the milk, vanilla and lemon zest.
- 5Pour the custard slowly and evenly over the part-baked pastry and let it stand 10 minutes to soak in.
- 6Return to the oven for 35-40 minutes until set in the middle and deep gold on top.
- 7Cool at least 30 minutes — it firms as it cools — then dust with icing sugar and cut into squares.
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Questions and answers
How long does Mlechna Banitsa take to make?
About 75 minutes: 25 min prep and 50 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Mlechna Banitsa?
8 ingredients: filo pastry sheets, milk, eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla extract, lemon zest, icing sugar.
How many servings does this Mlechna Banitsa recipe make?
10 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Mlechna Banitsa?
About 266 kcal, with 6.4 g protein, 27.6 g carbohydrate and 14.9 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Mlechna Banitsa?
Mlechna Banitsa comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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