Gary's Bougatsa
Recipe by Gary Mehigan from Boys Weekend
Gary's Mothers' Day recipe ...
Ingredients
- 1 vanilla bean
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- ¾ cup semolina
- 1 cup castor sugar
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 litre full cream milk
- 1 packet filo pastry
- 1 cup clarified butter
- Icing sugar, to dust
Syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup castor sugar
- star anise
- cinnamon stick
- cloves
- cardomom pods
Method
- Place split vanilla bean into pot with the milk and heat for one minute
- Rain in the semolina and lemon zest and whisk
- Mix egg yolks and sugar in a bowl, then mix in cornflour to a custard consistency.
- Add custard to the boiling milk and stir until mixture thickens in pot.
- Cool on a flat tray, covererd with cling film to prevent a skin forming
- Place 8 sheets of pastry one on top of the other, brushing liberally between each layer with clarified butter
- Lay filo flat and divide into 6 with a knife. Place one tbsp of the mixture on each pastry sheet and tuck up the sides and pinch together at the top.
- Brush baking dish with butter and bake at 180C until golden brown
- Dust with icing sugar and cinnamon
- For the syrup combine the water, castor sugar, star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick and cardomon pods in a pot and bring to boil, simmer for three minutes. Drizzle over Bougatsa before serving.
