Slovenian Traditional - Prekmurska Gibanica

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 500 g flour
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons oil
• lemon juice
• warm water
• 1 pinch salt
• 200 g poppy seeds
• 50 g sugar
• 100 ml milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 400 g cottage cheese
• raisins
• 1 egg
• 100 ml sour cream
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 200 g grinded walnuts
• 50 g sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 100 -200 ml milk
• cinnamon
• 500 g apples
• 30 g sugar
• lemon zest
• cinnamon
• butter, for greasing
• 100 -200 ml cream

Recipe

• 1 mix the dough from all the ingredients until it is elastic and smooth. divide it into 12 pieces. leave it to rest for half an hour.
• 2 to make poppy filling boil the milk and mix it into poppy seeds. add sugar and vanilla essence.
• 3 mash the cottage cheese until smooth, add egg, cream and as much raisins as you like.
• 4 pour boiled milk over walnuts. add sugar, vanilla essence and cinnamon. mix it until smooth and creamy. if you need add some more milk.
• 5 peel and grate the apples. sauté them with the sugar in a small pan for 5 minutes. add cinnamon and lemon zest.
• 6 when all the fillings are ready, roll and stretch the dough to fit into the deep pan. leave them on a floured clean tablecloth to dry a bit.
• 7 to put “gibanicaâ€? together gently put one piece of dough into the greased pan. spread on it the poppy filling and cover it with another sheet of dough. brush it with melted butter.
• 8 spread on it the cottage cheese filling and again cover it with sheet of dough which you brush with butter.
• 9 do the same with walnut and apple filling.
• 10 repeat the fillings in the same order.
• 11 put the remaining sheets of dough on the top and brush them with butter.
• 12 pour the cream over it and bake it on 180-200 °c for an hour.