🇬🇧 Desserts: Tikvenik (Bulgaria)

This text has the recipe of a sweet pastry from Bulgaria called tikvenik. Discover a bit about Bulgaria trying to make it at home.

Ingredients:

• 10-12 pieces of ready-made fine crusts
• oil

 For the mixture:

• 3 hours  grated raw yellow squash
• 1 incomplete tsp. chopped walnuts
• 5-6 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 pinch of salt
• 5-6 tbsp. oil

 For the sugar syrup:

• ½ cup of water
• ½ cup sugar

Directions:

1. Mix the pumpkin with sugar, cinnamon, crushed walnuts, oil and a pinch of salt. Mix them well.
2. Oil a baking tray with a diameter of 34-36 cm.
3. Smear the first sheet of the finished crusts with a little oil, then glue the second sheet.
4. Grease again, put the prepared stuffing on top. With the help of a towel, roll it into a roll.
5. In the same way, wrap the rest of the crusts with the filling.  Finally, wrap all the skins in the shape of a snail, spread oil on top.
6. Put the tikvenik in the pan, bake at 180° C for 40-50 minutes.
7. Sprinkle with sugar syrup.

The way to prepare and the final visual result are not that different from how to make Zeljanica and how it looks like. Zeljanica is a recipe I shared here months ago. The result is quite different, even because this bulgarian recipe is sweet, but the vicinity of both countries influences their gastronomic habits.

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