Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 2½ cup / 300g Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 7 tablespoon / 100g Butter
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tablespoon Agave or sweetener of choice
  • ¼ cup / 60ml Water or milk
  • 1 lb / 500g Cottage cheese
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoon Agave syrup or sweetener of choice
  • 2 Eggs
  • Optional: 50g dried fruit
  • Ø9½" / Ø25cm Baking tray

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C.
  • Prepare tray with parchment paper/baking paper or with some butter and flour so it will be easier to cut slices as the dough won't stick to the tray.
  • Put flour, baking powder, butter, egg, sweetener and the water or milk into a medium size bowl. Dough them together by hand. If the dough is too dry and flaky, pour a little bit more liquid to the mixture. If it still sticks to the bowl or onto our hands after 5 minutes of kneading then add a bit of more flour to it.
  • Divide the dough into two: approximately ⅓ and ⅔ pieces.
  • Form the bigger dough into a disk, the size of the tray.
  • Put it into the tray pressing the pastry to the sides of the tray.
  • Make the filling. Put cottage cheese, eggs, agave syrup, vanilla essence and dried fruit into a medium size mixing bowl and mix them well.
  • Pour it on top of the pastry into the tray.
  • Roll out the other piece of the pastry and cut it into stripes.
  • Place stripes on top of the cottage cheese filling like a lattice.
  • Brush top with egg yolk.
  • Put it into the preheated oven for 40 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
  • When it is baked leave it to cool down before serving it.