🇬🇷 How to Make Galaktoboureko

Craving Galaktoboureko? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Galaktoboureko at home, in about 1 hr 20 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1L whole milk
• 150g fine semolina
• 150g sugar
• 3 eggs
• zest of 1 lemon
• 100g butter, melted
• 270g filo pastry
• Syrup: 300g sugar, 200ml water, 1 strip lemon peel

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Make the syrup first and let it go completely cold. Hot custard plus hot syrup equals a soggy tray.
2. Heat the milk, rain in the semolina and sugar, and stir until thick, about 8 min.
3. Off the heat, beat in the eggs one at a time, plus the zest. Beat hard so they don't scramble.
4. Butter and layer 6 filo sheets in a tin, pour in the custard, then top with 6 more buttered sheets.
5. Score the top and bake at 180°C for 45 min until golden.
6. Pour the cold syrup over the hot pastry the moment it leaves the oven. It will hiss. Leave 4 hrs before cutting.