Gibanica is a traditional pastry dish popular all over the Balkans. It is usually made with cottage cheese and eggs. Recipes can range from sweet to savoury, and from simple to festive and elaborate m
A piece of gibanica
Prekmurska gibanica, a Slovenian variant
Međimurska gibanica, a Croatian variant
Filo or yufka is a very thin unleavened pastry dough used for making baked goods. Filo-based products are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.
Gibanica
…salty variety of Egyptian cheese that is similar to the cheese used for gibanica. The original recipe for gibanica included traditionally homemade phyllo dough and cow's milk cheese. Homemade cheese can be feta or sirene. The pie is usually made as gužvara (crumpled pie), so the phyllo dough in the middle…
Baklava, made with filo pastry
Freshly baked yufkas in layers