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Shared by Anita from their Crumb cookbook
Bougatsa
Nelly (family friend)Greek
Ingredients
- 4 cups milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 orange peel (half an orange)
- 3/4 cups semolina
- 1 tsp vanilla powder
- 1 tbsp butter
- Filo pastry
Method
- 1
Put milk to boil with orange peel
- 2
In a separate bowl, beat eggs with sugar and vanilla
- 3
Add semolina to egg mixture to make it creamy
- 4
Slowly add the boiled milk to make into a custard
- 5
Put pot into a basin of cold water (no water to go into the pot)
- 6
Add butter while it's in cold water and mix well
- 7
Take pyrex dish and grease it
- 8
Place 6 layers of filo pastry (leave 3 in to fold over) - Layer the filo (butter >filo > butter etc)
- 9
Pour custard mixture into pyrex
- 10
Fold over the extra filo and bake at 180°C until golden brown
- 11
Sprinkle top with icing sugar and cinnamon
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