An awesome Banitza (fillo dough and feta cheese pastry) recipe

And here is a traditional Bulgarian meal - banitza. Bulgarians make this for Christmas, for New Year's, and for any other occasion and mostly without occasion. It's the BEST! So, you're gonna need:

- a pack of fillo (also spelled phyllo, phillo, and God knows what other ways) dough
- 1 cup feta cheese (less or more is fine)
- 5 eggs
- 1 stick butter (more is fine)
- 1/2 cup yogurt (it can work without it)
- salt

Grease a baking dish, about 14 X 12 inches or larger. Mix together in a separate bowl 4 of the eggs, the feta cheese, the yogurt and salt to taste. Melt the butter. Spread a sheet of fillo in the baking dish, sprinkle with butter, put one more sheet, sprinkle with butter, and so on until you spread half of the sheets. Pour in the mixture from the bowl and spread it evenly. Continue spreading the sheets of fillo with butter in between until they're over. Cut loosely into pieces about 5 X 5 inches each. If you have any butter left, pour it in the cracks and around the edges. Remove the white from 1 egg and coat the whole surface with the yolk. At this point your oven should be preheated to 375F (figure out on your own when to turn it on). Put it in and bake for 20 to 40 min (this depends on your oven) or until the banitza is golden brown and smells oh so deliciously you just can't take it anymore!


You can have it with the drink called ayryan which is simply 2 parts yogurt with 1 part water stirred well.

Bon appetit!