Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, galaktoboureko. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Galaktoboureko is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Galaktoboureko is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Galaktoboureko is a traditional Greek dessert made with layers of golden brown crispy phyllo, sprinkled with melted butter, filled with the most creamy custard and bathed in scented syrup. Galaktoboureko is a traditional Greek dessert made with a custard in a crispy phyllo pastry shell. After all these years it is still a family favorite. I hope that everyone enjoys it as much as we do.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook galaktoboureko using 17 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Galaktoboureko:
- Prepare 1/2 kg phyllo pastry
- Get For the filling
- Make ready 1 cup semolina
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups sugar
- Make ready 700 ml full fat milk
- Take 300 ml heavy cream
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Make ready 3 tbsp butter
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Take grated zest of one lemon
- Prepare 250 g butter, melted, for brushing the phyllo
- Make ready For the syrup
- Prepare 700 g sugar
- Take 400 ml water
- Get 2 tbsp glucose syrup
- Prepare peel of one lemon
- Prepare 1 tbsp lemon juice
Galaktoboureko is a perfect dessert for a crowd because one recipe will feed many sweet-teeth (we've decided Galaktoboureko will keep, in the fridge, for several days. Some people prefer to eat it cold. Add the lemon at the end. A tip my grandmother gave me was to either have a hot galaktoboureko with a cooled syrup or the other way around.
Steps to make Galaktoboureko:
- Place all the syrup ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to boil and let boil for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and allow syrup to cool.
- Using a pastry brush, liberally grease the bottom and sides of an ovenproof dish with melted butter.
- Brush each phyllo with melted butter and layer the first 5 into your dish, making sure the sides of the dish are also covered. Work fast, because phyllo pastry dries up very quickly. Keep the remainder of the phyllo covered with a damp dishcloth, to prevent it from drying out.
- Prepare the fillingPlace a saucepan over low heat, and combine the filling ingredients, stirring well.
- Separate the 4 eggs.
- Beat the egg whites till stiff.
- Whisk the yolks separately.
- Fold the egg whites gently into the whisked egg yolks.
- Add this egg mixture into the filling mixture and stir in using a wooden spoon.
- Add 3 tbsp butter, while stirring all the time in circular motions, until the filling thickens into a smooth, velvety and light cream. Remove from the heat.
- Pour the filling over the 5 layered phyllo sheets.
- Spread evenly.
- Layer the rest of the phyllo sheets over the filling, brushing each phyllo sheet first well with butter.
- Tuck in all the excess pastry into the sides and into the bottom of the ovendish.
- Using a sharp knife, score the top layers of phyllo sheets into squares.
- Pour melted butter over the whole surface and then generously sprinkle with cold water.
- Bake in a preheated oven, 180°C, for 1 hour, until golden.
- As soon as the galaktobouriko comes out of the oven, and while it is still hot, spoon over the whole surface the cooled syrup. Make sure the phyllo parstry is well drenched.
- Let the galaktobouriko cool completely and absorb all the syrup. Do not cover while it is cooling, or it will get soggy.
Add the lemon at the end. A tip my grandmother gave me was to either have a hot galaktoboureko with a cooled syrup or the other way around. A recipe for Greek Custard Pie, otherwise known as Galaktoboureko. Layers of phyllo dough sandwich a fabulous custard filling. Impossible to resist, this creamy custard pie called Galaktoboureko is one of the all-time favorite Greek desserts.
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