I love recipes like this and they have stuck with me for a long time.
3 thin Armenian lavash,
1 kg cottage cheese (or part of cottage cheese, cheese or feta cheese),
3 eggs
salt,
a bunch of greens (optional),
butter for greasing pita bread,
Filling for lazy banitsa:
3 eggs
200 g sour cream
Let's start with the filling; it can be made entirely from cottage cheese, or it can be partially replaced with cheese (traditionally, Bulgarian banitsa is made with cheese, which resembles feta cheese). The cottage cheese is kneaded with a fork or hands, and the cheese (brynza) is grated on a coarse grater. The entire filling is mixed with eggs (they can be lightly beaten, as for scrambled eggs) and salt (salt is not added to the cheese filling, there is already enough of it). 
If you like greens in unsweetened casseroles, please chop them up, it will be very tasty!
Lavash sheets are lightly greased with butter; if ready-made puff pastry is used, it is rolled out very thinly.
A thin layer of filling is distributed onto each pita bread, and then the sheet is rolled into a banitsa roll along the wide end. 
Grease the deep form (metal, porcelain, heat-resistant glass, silicone) in which we will prepare the pita bread bannitsa with butter. Into it in a spiral (in the shape of a snail), starting from the middle, 
lay out the rolls and fill with beaten eggs and a glass of sour cream. Try to fill all the empty spaces between the pita bread (or dough). 
Preparing the banitsa layer cake in the oven will take you about 40 minutes at a temperature of 170-180 degrees. It should be nicely browned on top. 
Banitsa is a layer cake of Bulgarian national cuisine. Any filling is suitable for banitsa, but the tastiest is made from cottage cheese or feta cheese. In order not to bother with the dough, I recommend preparing banitsa in a simplified way, from pita bread. Lavash recipes turn out to be very tasty and take very little time to prepare. Try making banitsa from lavash, and you won’t regret it.
Ingredients we need to prepare banitsa
- Lavash – 6 sheets
- Eggs – 5 pcs.
- Swept away – 400 – 500 gr.
- Cottage cheese – 600 gr.
- Sunflower oil
Now we will start preparing banitsa with lavash cottage cheese with a step-by-step recipe.
Step-by-step recipe with photo of lavash banitsa
Step 1
Grease the first sheet of pita bread with oil, so we will do the same with the remaining five pita breads.
Step 2
Grease a sheet of lavash with cottage cheese; if desired, you can add greens to the cottage cheese.
It turns out very tasty by mixing half the cottage cheese and feta cheese.
Step 3
After applying the filling, roll the pita bread tightly into a roll. You should get five more of these rolls.
Step 4
Now let's start preparing the filling. Beat sour cream with eggs.
Step 5
Place the lavash rolls on a greased baking sheet and pour evenly with sour cream and eggs. Don't forget to grease the edges well so they don't burn.
Step 6
Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven for 30-45 minutes and bake the banitsa until golden brown.
Video with step-by-step preparation of banitsa from lavash with cottage cheese
For a long time, the same question has been living in my head: who comes up with recipes and how is it possible to combine the incongruous so skillfully?
Someone came up with the idea of a lavash bannitsa, the recipe for which every third person knows, and if you are not familiar with it, we quickly correct this mistake! Let's get up to speed: bannitsa is a famous pie in Bulgaria, which is baked from unleavened puff pastry without the use of yeast.
Lavash bannitsa: quick recipe
Ingredients
- Armenian lavash – 3 pieces + -
- + -
- — 500 ml + -
- — 1 kg + -
- — 8 pieces + -
- — 100 g + -
How to cook bannitsa from lavash
- Place the cottage cheese in a deep bowl and add salt.
- Grind the curd with one egg, divide into 3 equal parts.
- Let's spread out our lavash.
- Spread butter on the pita bread.
- Spread 1 part of the curd mass over the entire area of the flatbread.
- Roll it into a roll.
- We do the same with the rest of the pita breads.
- Grease the mold in which the pita bread bannitsa will be baked in the oven.
- We put rolls in it.
- Beat the remaining eggs separately.
- Mix sour cream with eggs until a uniform consistency is obtained.
- Pour the mixture over the rolls. They should be completely hidden under the filling.
- Allow 15 minutes for soaking.
- Set the oven temperature to 180 degrees. Warming up.
- Place the lazy pita bread bannitsa for half an hour. If during this time the blush has not yet appeared on the cake, then we extend the time by another 10 minutes.
Melina or bannitsa with cottage cheese is ready, you can invite guests for tea. Bon appetit!
Traditional bannitsa: recipe with cheese
We have mastered and digested the recipe for bannitsa made from lavash with cottage cheese, now it’s time to start preparing a real traditional bannitsa!
Ingredients
- Egg - 4 pieces;
- Flour – 3 cups;
- Purified water – 300 ml;
- Salt - to taste;
- Wine vinegar – 1 tbsp;
- Olive oil – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Yogurt – 100 g;
- Cheese cheese – 350 g.
How to make a Bulgarian traditional bannitsa
- Pour flour into a clean bowl, add 1 egg, salt. Mix.
- Pour in water, vinegar, oil. Knead the dough with your hands.
- Roll the finished dough into small balls and cover them with a clean cotton towel. While we are doing the filling, they will rest.
- Mix separately the remaining 3 eggs, cheese, and yogurt. By the way, yogurt can replace sour cream, kefir and even yogurt. Any fermented milk product that is on hand.
- Roll out the rested rounds into thin squares or rectangles.
- Spread the filling evenly over the sheet.
- Roll up the sheet with the filling and twist it slightly into a curl.
- Grease the baking dish with oil and heat the oven to 200 degrees.
- We place the workpiece in the mold as you wish.
Send to bake until golden brown. Then cover the top with foil, reduce the temperature to 180 and bake for another 20 minutes.
I’ve already written many times that I love baking, and finally I got around to lazy Banitsa. For those who don’t know, banitsa is a thin dough pie with filling. Maybe our recipe for this recipe is not quite a traditional pie, which came from Bulgarian cuisine, but I can assure you that I have never tried anything tastier and more tender than baked goods with cottage cheese, except my mother’s casserole, that’s all.
Bulgarian banitsa differs from our lazy one in that it is most often prepared from dough, which is prepared independently or thin phyllo dough is used. And we use ready-made thin Armenian lavash. Well, what can you do now, this is who we are. I would like to clarify that in Bulgaria banitsa pie is baked for Christmas or New Year, but I think that you shouldn’t wait for such bright holidays and you can try this recipe today, which is what I did. Regarding the filling in the lavash pie. Today it could be a sweet pie with cottage cheese and raisins, tomorrow it could be a pie with savory filling, for example, cheese, ham, minced meat, fish, chicken.
It should be said right away that “the devil is not as terrible as he is painted.” For example, after reading several recipes for banitsa, I was immediately intimidated by the complexity of preparation, but it turned out to be quite simple, lavash banitsa is quite easy to prepare.
Banitsa is baked both in a slow cooker and in the oven. In the first version, it turns out more juicy and tender, but you will get a lazy lavash pie in the oven with a beautiful golden brown top and a crispy crust. I tried both cooking options and today I am sharing with you a step-by-step photo master class.
Sweet lazy banitsa with cottage cheese and raisins
In order to prepare a sweet pie with lavash cottage cheese, you will need the following ingredients:
Ingredients:
- Armenian lavash – 3 pieces,
- Cottage cheese 600 – 700 grams,
- Chicken eggs (large) – 5 pieces,
- Sour cream (15% fat) – 400 grams,
- Raisins (preferably seedless) – 100 grams,
- Granulated sugar - ½ cup,
- Potato starch - 2 teaspoons,
- Butter – 20 grams (for greasing the multicooker bowl),
- Baking soda (slaked with vinegar) – ½ teaspoon.
Cooking process:
First, sort out and rinse the raisins, then add warm water. Leave the raisins to soak in the water for 15 minutes. Then drain the water and dry the raisins with a napkin.
Now we are preparing the sweet filling from cottage cheese and raisins. For a savory pie, exclude sugar and add salt to taste; if you like, add herbs. You can rub the cottage cheese through a fine sieve or grind it with a blender to get rid of large lumps. I don’t do this, as I said before, I love grains of cottage cheese in baked goods. Now add prepared raisins, half the norm of granulated sugar, slaked soda with vinegar, and potato starch to the prepared cottage cheese. The last ingredient is improvisation, I added starch to make the mass thicker, since my cottage cheese is homemade and not completely dry, which is not very good. Add two raw eggs there. Grind everything thoroughly with a fork or spoon.
Now spread one pita bread on a clean surface of the table and put the filling of cottage cheese and raisins on it, level it over the entire surface. Remember that you must divide the filling between two pita breads. We do the same with the second pita bread.
Now each pita bread with the filling applied to it should be rolled into a tube; when rolling, the pita bread should be slightly pressed down so that there are no large voids inside the roll.
Carefully grease the multicooker bowl with butter and then cover it with one sheet of lavash, the ends of the lavash should hang over the edges, I’ll tell you later where to remove them.
Now each bundle of lavash with cottage cheese should be placed in a multicooker bowl, previously greased and lined with lavash. We lay the bundles in the form of snails, wrap them in a spiral, then lightly press our entire structure.
Then you need to pour half of the filling over everything. We prepare the filling for the lazy pie from sour cream and eggs. To do this, break the remaining three eggs into a bowl, add sour cream and the remaining granulated sugar. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth. At this stage you can add vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc. everything according to your taste. I didn’t add anything because I decided that my baked goods would have exclusively the aroma of cottage cheese and sour cream.
Now it’s time to use the hanging ends of the pita bread; they need to be carefully wrapped and covered with cottage cheese. Now fill everything with the rest of the filling.
Close the lid and prepare a lavash pie with cottage cheese in a multicooker using the “Baking” program. My banitsa was baked in a multi-cooker - Unit USP1020D pressure cooker (multi-cooker power 900 W), 31 minutes is enough for it. In a Panasonic multicooker with a power of 670 W, this pie needs to be cooked for 60 + 20 minutes.
We are waiting for the end of baking. After the signal sounds about the end of cooking, you should not immediately open the lid; you need to keep the bannitsa for another 10 minutes in the multicooker on the “Warming” mode. Then open the lid and wait until the pita bread and cottage cheese pie has cooled completely and only then can you remove it from the multicooker bowl, cut it and start tasting. The result is a banitsa with a beautiful crispy crust on the bottom.
But in a gas or electric oven the pie turns out beautifully golden brown on all sides, as in this photo. The banitsa is cooked in the oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. Then another 20 minutes of waiting for the pie to cool and a pleasant tea party!
Slavyana made lazy lavash pie.
Bon appetit and good recipes!
1. To bake lazy banitsa from lavash, it is better to use homemade cottage cheese - it is richer and will make an excellent filling. If you don’t have access to homemade cottage cheese, you can dilute store-bought cottage cheese with butter. To do this, remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it softens, then add to the cottage cheese and stir. Well, if you have homemade cottage cheese, just put it in a bowl and mash it well with a fork.
2. Add two eggs to the cottage cheese. Of course, it is also better to use homemade ones for baking - they will make the filling of the banitsa more tasty and brighter.
3. Add sour cream to the bowl with the filling. This ingredient will add tenderness and a pleasant aroma to the filling.
4. Salt the cottage cheese and stir all the ingredients well, combining them into a homogeneous mass.
5. You don’t have to add dill to the filling, but this ingredient will make the dish truly delicious! So it's better to chop the dill, put it in a bowl and stir with the rest of the ingredients.
6. Place two sheets of pita bread in front of you. Divide each of them into two parts. At the same time, divide the filling in the bowl into four parts so that you can fill each of the pieces of pita bread.
7. Line the bottom of the baking pan with parchment. Place a fourth of the filling on one part of the pita bread and distribute it evenly.
8. Wrap the pita bread with a roll and place this roll on the parchment. Do the same with the remaining pieces of pita bread. Roll the rolls and place them all side by side on a baking pan.
9. Break the remaining one egg and stir with a fork until smooth. Then take a whisk or brush and brush the egg mixture onto the top of the rolls.
10. After generously coating the rolls with egg, you can simply pour the remainder of this mixture into the spaces between the rolls. Place the pan in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake the banitsa with cottage cheese for 20 minutes.
Lazy banitsa with lavash cottage cheese is ready! The pita bread was crispy and the filling was perfectly baked! Bon appetit!
