Semolina Pie

 

Semolina Pie

“This semolina pie is perfect with an afternoon cup of tea. It represents the simple cooking of Croatia and is one of the traditional recipes from the city of Zagreb.”

Ingredients

For the pastry:

250 g (8.8 oz) all purpose flour

50 g (1.7 oz) sugar

50 g (1.7 oz) butter

2 tablespoons rum

1 tablespoon grated lemon

For the filling:

500 ml (17 oz) milk

4 tablespoons sugar

1 sachet vanilla sugar

40 g (1.4 oz) semolina

2 eggs

For sprinkling:

Powdered or icing sugar

Directions

Mix flour and sugar. Thinly slice butter, add rum and grated lemon and knead the dough. Wrap it up in plastic foil and leave in the fridge for an hour.

Add 2 tablespoons sugar and vanilla sugar to milk and let it boil. Gradually sprinkle semolina flour into the milk and cook for 5 minutes. Let the semolina cool down. Meanwhile separate the egg yolks from the egg whites. Mix the egg yolks with the remaining sugar, beat the egg whites until stiff. Mix the egg yolks with the semolina and gently fold in the beaten egg whites. Divide the cooled dough in two portions. Grate one half of the dough into a greased baking pan (18×30 cm/7×11 in), pour over the stuffing and then grate over it the other half of the dough. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (350°F) for 40 minutes.

To serve, sprinkle the cooled pie with powder sugar, cut into rectangular slices and serve with tea.