Zagorski štrukli Recipes

TRADITIONAL CROATIAN BAKED STRUKLI

Steps:

• Make the dough: this is the traditional way, but you can make it with your stand mixer too: Sift flour combined with salt onto clean working surface and make indentation in the middle. Put one egg into that indentation, add oil and combine all ingredients using fork. Mix some lukewarm water with vinegar and gradually add to the dough, until it all comes together. Knead the dough with hands until it's smooth-it should be smooth and elastic, not too soft and sticky. Divide dough into three equal parts, brush each with oil and cover with warm pot. Leave for 30 minutes.
• While the dough rests, prepare the filling: Mix softened butter with fresh cottage cheese, add eggs, sour cream, salt and pepper.
• Take a clean tablecloth and dust with some flour. Put 1 part of the dough onto it, roll out with rolling pin until thin and then begin stretching it with your palms. Be gentle and patient, stretch it from the middle. Don't stress out if it breaks. The dough should be thin, but for strukli you don't need to make it too thin (like when making strudel). Cut out thick edges. It's good to leave the dough for 15 minutes to dry slightly, but you can skip this step if you're in a hurry. Then sprinkle it with some melted butter. Brush the filling over the dough-brush only half of the dough. Roll it, using tablecloth-take a look at the video in the link above for this. Using your hands, separate the dough into equal parts and cut them with a plate. We do this instead of using knife in order to firmly seal the edges and ensure the filling doesn't pour out of strukli.
• Take a baking pan, brush it with some butter and assemble strukli in it.
• Preheat oven to 200 C.
• Make the topping: combine sour cream with some salt and pour it over strukli. Place a couple of cubes of butter on top and finish with some grated cheese. Bake for about 40 minutes, until nicely golden. Let cool slightly and serve warm.

ZAGORSKI šTRUKLI

Steps:

• First take the flour,egg,oil and water,then knead until you get smooth pastry.Form it in a bowl,smear it with oil and leave to rest for abaut 20 minutes on room temperature.
• Cover the table with table cloth and sprinkle it with flour.Then put the pastry in the middle.Use the rarrel to make it little thinner and then by using your palms spread it over the table cloth(abaut 100x150 cm).
• Mix all the ingredients for stuffing.Put the stuffing on the edge of the longer part of the pastry.Rest of the pastry drip with oil and roll it using the table cloth.
• Cut the pastry into pieces long for abaut 15 cm.Cook them in boiling,salt water for abaut 10 minutes.
• Spread the butter across the model and put cooked ?ttrukli in it.
• Cover them with the mixture of cream,egg and salt and bake them in oven at 200C for abaut 10 minutes.Serve warm.