The recipe I am making here is taken from the book vefa's but I adapted the amount of ingredients to a baking dish I have; keeping the exact proportions.

The ingredients

Preheat the oven 180C

A baking dish 26 cm. butter, brush and the phyllo sheets

Start by melting the butter. Then butter the baking dish

Baste the phyllo sheets with butter.

Pleat or gather the phyllo sheets

Fold into a spiral to make a flower

Put in the middle of the baking dish

Pleat the rest of the phyllo sheets and put the around the first until the baking dish is full and they make a huge flower

Baste again with butter

Sprinkle with crystal used sugar

Bake 20 mins. But in the meantime prepare the custard mixture to pour it over the hot phyllo and back to the oven for 30 mins

For the custard

Making the custard.....Heat the milk until it starts simmering.

Mix the eggs an sugar + vanilla

Add the simmering milk over the egg-sugar. Bit by bit.. Do Not make scrambled eggs

And power over the hot phyllo

Back to the oven. Bake 30 mins or until golden

Out of the oven dust with icing sugar and more cinnamon. Sprinkle some grilled pistachios(personal addition)

Out of the oven dust with icing sugar and more cinnamon. Sprinkle some grilled pistachios(personal addition)

How to make 'galatopita' (amazing greek dessert) 🇬🇷

Make 'Galatopita' (Amazing Greek Dessert) 🇬🇷