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Friday 2 November 2012

Greek Mpougatsa Thessalonikis With Creme



~ Μπουγάτσα Θεσσαλονίκης με Κρέμα

Mpougatsa is one of the most famous Greek breakfast pastries in Northern Greece. It comes with different fillings creme, cheese, meat, spinach. It has somewhat made its way to the Southern parts of Greece but the Southerners don't seem to understand how it is different to their 'normal' and 'usual' cheese pastries.

'History claims that ancients Greeks used to make pies with every kind of fealing called "placountas". Years went by and mpougatsa stayed popular in Constantinoupolis and Smyrna. Mpougatsa in Turkish means pie fealed with cream and topped with sugar powder and cinnamon powder. After the destroyal of Smyrna and the exchange of the Greek-Turkish colonies, mpougatsa became extremely popular in north Greece and especially Thessaloniki.' http://www.squidoo.com/mpougatsa-and-how-to-make-it
It's one of my favorite morning treats and because I have missed it I decided to make myself! I added a special ingredient I adore to the recipe. Mastic 'spice' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastic_(plant_resin)

Unfortunately I don't think it can be found in any store outside Greece or Turkey.

It is very easy to make and I would encourage you all to try baking it!

Ingredients:

  • 500 gr filo pastry

  • 200 - 250 gr fine semolina (depending on how thick you want the creme. I love it thick so I used 250gr)

  • 250 - 400 gr sugar (depending on how sweet you would like it. I don't like very sweet desserts so I used 250 gr)

  • Vanilla essence

  • 300 gr butter

  • 1 1/2 litre milk

  • pinch of salt

  • few grams of mastic

  • Cinnamon and icing sugar to dust

We heat the milk with the sugar, salt, mastic and vanilla essence. We stir until sugar is dissolved and ingredients mix well. We keep stirring until it comes to boil. We lower the temperature and we slowly slowly add the semolina. We keep stirring until it becomes a thick creme (for approximately 10 minutes). We withdraw the pan from the fire and we add 250 gr of the butter. We keep stirring until it dissolves and we let the creme cool. We preheat the oven on 180 degrees C.

In a 34-36 cm long baking tray we layer 9 filos spreading a bit of butter in between. We make sure the filo runs outside the baking tray. We add the creme and we fold the parts of the filo outside the edges of the tray inwards so that they cover the creme. The point is to make sure the creme is safely contained in the filo so it doesn't run outside while baking. We cover with the rest of the filo pastry the same way spreading small quantities of butter in between.

We bake for 30-40 minutes depending on the oven in the temperature of 180 - 200 degrees C.

We serve dusting with icing sugar and cinnamon.

basic recipe as seen in http://tokouzinakitispareas.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/blog-post_12.html

4 comments:

  1. Thank you, I love bougatsa and you make it sound easy enough. Will try and make it today, wish me good luck ;-).xx

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  2. Good luck! Let me know how it went.

    I am sure it will be a success
    ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  3. I made the bougatsa and as I had mastic I got heape of compliments:))))

    ReplyDelete
  4. I am glad to hear it! :) mastic gives it such a great taste! I will post a recipe for cheese bougatsa soon ;)

    ReplyDelete

Friday 2 November 2012

Greek Mpougatsa Thessalonikis With Creme



~ Μπουγάτσα Θεσσαλονίκης με Κρέμα

Mpougatsa is one of the most famous Greek breakfast pastries in Northern Greece. It comes with different fillings creme, cheese, meat, spinach. It has somewhat made its way to the Southern parts of Greece but the Southerners don't seem to understand how it is different to their 'normal' and 'usual' cheese pastries.

'History claims that ancients Greeks used to make pies with every kind of fealing called "placountas". Years went by and mpougatsa stayed popular in Constantinoupolis and Smyrna. Mpougatsa in Turkish means pie fealed with cream and topped with sugar powder and cinnamon powder. After the destroyal of Smyrna and the exchange of the Greek-Turkish colonies, mpougatsa became extremely popular in north Greece and especially Thessaloniki.' http://www.squidoo.com/mpougatsa-and-how-to-make-it
It's one of my favorite morning treats and because I have missed it I decided to make myself! I added a special ingredient I adore to the recipe. Mastic 'spice' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastic_(plant_resin)

Unfortunately I don't think it can be found in any store outside Greece or Turkey.

It is very easy to make and I would encourage you all to try baking it!

Ingredients:

  • 500 gr filo pastry

  • 200 - 250 gr fine semolina (depending on how thick you want the creme. I love it thick so I used 250gr)

  • 250 - 400 gr sugar (depending on how sweet you would like it. I don't like very sweet desserts so I used 250 gr)

  • Vanilla essence

  • 300 gr butter

  • 1 1/2 litre milk

  • pinch of salt

  • few grams of mastic

  • Cinnamon and icing sugar to dust

We heat the milk with the sugar, salt, mastic and vanilla essence. We stir until sugar is dissolved and ingredients mix well. We keep stirring until it comes to boil. We lower the temperature and we slowly slowly add the semolina. We keep stirring until it becomes a thick creme (for approximately 10 minutes). We withdraw the pan from the fire and we add 250 gr of the butter. We keep stirring until it dissolves and we let the creme cool. We preheat the oven on 180 degrees C.

In a 34-36 cm long baking tray we layer 9 filos spreading a bit of butter in between. We make sure the filo runs outside the baking tray. We add the creme and we fold the parts of the filo outside the edges of the tray inwards so that they cover the creme. The point is to make sure the creme is safely contained in the filo so it doesn't run outside while baking. We cover with the rest of the filo pastry the same way spreading small quantities of butter in between.

We bake for 30-40 minutes depending on the oven in the temperature of 180 - 200 degrees C.

We serve dusting with icing sugar and cinnamon.

basic recipe as seen in http://tokouzinakitispareas.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/blog-post_12.html

4 comments :

  1. Thank you, I love bougatsa and you make it sound easy enough. Will try and make it today, wish me good luck ;-).xx

    ReplyDelete
  2. Good luck! Let me know how it went.

    I am sure it will be a success
    ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  3. I made the bougatsa and as I had mastic I got heape of compliments:))))

    ReplyDelete
  4. I am glad to hear it! :) mastic gives it such a great taste! I will post a recipe for cheese bougatsa soon ;)

    ReplyDelete

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