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Gibanica with cheese is a traditional Serbian pastry dish. But you can also call it Serbian cheese pie. It is simple and so versatile! You can have it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between. And so, it goes with pretty much any food! In the video and pictures I serve it with yogurt, prosciutto and ajvar and with sugar for dessert!

Probably every household has a variation of the gibanica with cheese recipe. In my family my grandma, mom and my dad make/made each their own version.

Recipe I am sharing today is my fathers traditional gibanica recipe. I did add my own “touch” to it – just a spoonful of ricotta cheese. One time I was making cheese filled Serbian gibanica I had some ricotta over and I wandered how it would taste in gibanica. So, I added a small amount and was very happy with the result. Ricotta adds more creaminess to gibanica. If you don´t have ricotta you can use plain yoghurt instead.

Since this is gibanica recipe in English and I assume not many of you have “oriental” type of store near you where you can find sheets of dough for gibanica, you can use phyllo dough. Phyllo dough is used in Greece for pitas and is similar to the one for gibanica.

And since I am using store bought sheets of dough for this recipe, this is easy gibanica recipe. Other variant is with home-made sheets of dough which I have to admit is a million times better!

You can serve this traditional Serbian food with yogurt which is the most popular way. With cold cuts and condiments, as a side to main coarse or as a dinner. Warm or cold. But it tastes especially irresistible while warm. When the outside is crispy and the inside is fluffy and the filling is warm.

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For more Serbian recipes check out links bellow!

 

Baked beans

Pepper, onion and tomato stew – Sataras

Serbian cornbread with cottage cheese

Moussaka

 

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