Bougatsa. With a knife trim some of the excessive phyllo, if you like, and roll the rest on the edges. Brush the top with plenty of butter and score the top of the bougatsa with a sharp knife. Whisk in pieces of cut up butter, incorporating completely into the semolina custard.

Unroll one sheet of phyllo, keeping remainder covered with dampened kitchen towel. Bougatsa is a very crispy pastry dessert filled with a velvety custard cream. Always served warm sprinkled with lots of icing sugar and cinnamon. You can cook Bougatsa using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bougatsa

Prepare 10 of phyllo sheets.
It's 1 cup of melted butter.
You need 3 of eggs.
Prepare 1-1/2 cup of caster sugar.
Prepare of Zest lemon.
You need 6 cups of milk.
It's 3/4 cup of semolina.
Prepare of Cinnamon.
Prepare of Icing sugar.

In Greece, we mostly have it for breakfast. It's a pretty fulfilling dessert to serve after a meal (unless you only have a tiny piece). Directions to Make Bougatsa: Add the egg, egg yolk, and sugar to a medium bowl and beat on medium speed using an electric mixer until the mixture is light and fluffy. Pour the milk into a medium saucepan and heat on medium-low, whisking constantly, until the milk is heated all the way through.

Bougatsa step by step

Make sure defrost phyllo pastry first.
Warm up the milk..
Add 3 eggs to a mixture. Add sugar in and beat it until become lightly about 3mins. Add semolina and mix about 4mins. Add warmed up milk into it..
Heat the pan and cook the mixed about 3 mins and add the zest of 1 lemon into it. Stir it up until thick enough and add 2 teaspoon of vanilla into it..
Prepare a tray. Drizzle all over a tray with melted butter. Separated the phyllo. Lay a first phyllo pastry and drizzle butter and continues four more phyllo sheets. After the 5 phyllo drizzle butter and add the Custard into it. Spread custard filling evenly and cover quickly with the phyllo and again drizzle with the butter. Repeat it again until finish. Seal the phyllo sheets properly. Add brush the butter to the side of phyllo sheets.
Preheat the oven about 375 degree and bake about 30-45 mins until it golden brown. Put cinnamon all over and icing sugar.

Bougatsa is one of the most famous traditional breakfasts in Greece. This pastry, made of phyllo dough and vanilla cream with semolina, is also available in several savory versions. Bougatsa is a typical Greek pastry made from filo pastry and garnished with a type of custard made with semolina and vanilla. The cream itself is made up of milk, butter, sugar, eggs and fine. In Greek this tasty street food is known as μπουγάτσα με κρέμα, pronounced boo-GHAHT-sah meh KREH-mah.