Filling:
430g (fat) cottage cheese
100g sugar
2 small eggs
50g raisins
4 tbsp semolina
Pie sheets:
250g flour
a pinch of salt
25g butter (at room temperature)
130ml water
1 tbsp vinegar
+1 small egg + 1/2 sachet vanilla sugar
Every time I travel to the Danube Delta, I savour this Dobrujan pie.
I’ve always wished to bake it at home, using homemade pie sheets. It seems difficult but isn’t!
At first, make the filling, mixing the cottage cheese, sugar, eggs, raisins, and semolina (which thickens the filling). Let the filling sit in the fridge for 10 minutes.
In the meantime, make the dough for the pie sheets, mixing the flour, salt, butter at room temperature, water, and vinegar. Knead and split the dough into 4 equal parts. Roll out the first as thinly as you can, cover the bottom of the baking pan and leave the edges spill outside the pan.
Spread the cottage cheese mix, roll out another sheet, spread the cottage cheese mix again, and repeat this step one more time, then cover with the last sheet and fold the edges of the first sheet on top of the pie.
Mix the egg with the vanilla sugar and brush the pie with it.
Bake at 180°C, in the preheated oven, for 35 minutes.
This dessert tastes of summer and sunshine! ☼
