Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vasilopita from lesvos. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Thisis a different recipe for vasilopita (Greek traditional New Year's bread or cake) for those who love sweet and savory combined. Vasilopita, or Greek New Year's Bread, is a sweet yeasted egg bread scented with orange and traditionally served on Growing up, I can't remember a New Year's day that didn't involve Vasilopita. On New Year's Day, Greek families cut the Vasilopita to bless the house and bring good luck for the new year.
Vasilopita from Lesvos is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Vasilopita from Lesvos is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vasilopita from lesvos using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vasilopita from Lesvos:
- Take For the dough
- Get 1 kg flour
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Get 2 bottle caps ouzo
- Make ready 1/2 cup oil
- Get water, as much as it takes
- Get For the filling
- Make ready 1/2 kg hard mizithra (traditional Greek cheese, made with whey and milk from sheep or goat)
- Get 1 tbsp cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tbsp clove
- Make ready 3/4 cup sugar
- Take butter for brushing the filo sheets
Vasilopita is a Greek New Year's cake with a coin or a trinket baked inside of it. The cake is enriched with a sweet flavoring, symbolizing the sweetness and joy of life and hope that the New Year will be. Vasilopita is a sweet Greek New Year's bread. This person who receives the coin hidden inside is considered to be especially blessed for the year.
Steps to make Vasilopita from Lesvos:
- Place all the ingredients for the dough in a large bowl and knead until the dough doesn't stick to the sides. Then, set it aside to rest.
- Place the ingredients for the filling in another bowl and mix.
- Melt the butter in a small pot.
- Roll out your dough into sheets (about 6-5 sheets).
- Brush the baking tray with butter, spread out one sheet,brush with butter, add some filling then sheet - butter - filling and finally, finish with a sheet and butter.
- Bake for about 1 to 1 1/2 hour.
- When it is done, turn it upside down on a platter with absorbent paper to drain the butter.
Anotar en el concepto de la transferencia/ingreso las palabras: (A) VASILOPITA, (B) las palabras TALLER y/o FIESTA, según y. Vasilopita is made differently depending in the region. Vasilopita is a traditional Greek bread baked for New Year's Day. The bread contains a hidden coin that is said to bring luck to whoever finds a piece with it. The Vasilopita tradition has its roots in the life of St Basil the Great." (Fragment of the book "Monastic Pastry and Other Recipes" written by Archimandrite Demetrios Kavvadias).
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