Galaktoboureko: Milk Pie

Name: Galaktoboureko: Milk Pie
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 158 milliliters clarified butter, to brush dough; 4 eggs; 1 lemon; 946 milliliters milk; 454 grams thick, commercial phyllo dough; 118 milliliters fine semolina; 237 milliliters sugar; 473 milliliters sugar; 158 milliliters unsalted butter; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 710 milliliters water

Galaktoboureko: Milk Pie requires about 1 hour and 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 18. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 388 calories, 5g of protein, and 18g of fat per serving. If you have commercial phyllo dough, sugar, water, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Not a lot of people really liked this dessert.

Instructions

In a heavy pot, bring the milk to a boil.

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Milk

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Pot

Sprinkle in the semolina, whisking constantly over very low heat.

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Semolina

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Whisk

Add the sugar, then simmer for 5 to 6 minutes, stirring from time to time.

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Sugar

Remove from the heat and add the butter and the eggs, 1 by 1, stirring. Blend in the vanilla. The mixture will be thick but pourable, like a sauce.

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Vanilla

Butter

Sauce

Egg

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

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Oven

Butter a deep 10-inch baking pan. In the bottom of the pan, layer 8 sheets of phyllo, leaving the edges hanging over the sides of the pan.

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Butter

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Baking Pan

Brush each sheet generously with clarified butter.

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Clarified Butter

Pour the milk mixture over the phyllo layers.

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Milk

Cut the remaining sheets of phyllo about the size of the pan and brush each sheet with clarified butter.

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Clarified Butter

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Frying Pan

Place the buttered sheets on top of the filling, then brush the hanging bottom sheets with clarified butter and roll them up to seal.

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Clarified Butter

Roll

With a very sharp knife, score the top diagonally in 2 directions to make diamond-shaped slits on the surface. (This makes it easier to cut later, and also allows the syrup to penetrate the pie.)

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Syrup

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