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Thisis a different recipe for vasilopita (Greek traditional New Year's bread or cake) for those who love sweet and savory combined. Vasilopita, or Greek New Year's Bread, is a sweet yeasted egg bread scented with orange and traditionally served on Growing up, I can't remember a New Year's day that didn't involve Vasilopita. Vasilopita is a Greek New Year's cake with a coin or a trinket baked inside of it.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have vasilopita from lesvos using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Vasilopita from Lesvos:

1. Make ready For the dough
2. Prepare 1 kg flour
3. Get 1 tsp salt
4. Prepare 2 bottle caps ouzo
5. Make ready 1/2 cup oil
6. Make ready water, as much as it takes
7. Make ready For the filling
8. Get 1/2 kg hard mizithra (traditional Greek cheese, made with whey and milk from sheep or goat)
9. Make ready 1 tbsp cinnamon
10. Get 1/2 tbsp clove
11. Take 3/4 cup sugar
12. Get butter for brushing the filo sheets

Vasilopita pronounced vah-see-LO-pee-tah, is the Greek lucky new year's cake that has a coin It is tradition for each family to have their own vasilopita and a piece is cut for each family member. Vasilopita is a sweet Greek New Year's bread. On New Year's Day, Greek families cut the Vasilopita to bless the house and bring good luck for the new year. Vasilopita is considered the Greek New Year's cake.

Steps to make Vasilopita from Lesvos:

1. Place all the ingredients for the dough in a large bowl and knead until the dough doesn't stick to the sides. Then, set it aside to rest.
2. Place the ingredients for the filling in another bowl and mix.
3. Melt the butter in a small pot.
4. Roll out your dough into sheets (about 6-5 sheets).
5. Brush the baking tray with butter, spread out one sheet,brush with butter, add some filling then sheet - butter - filling and finally, finish with a sheet and butter.
6. Bake for about 1 to 1 1/2 hour.
7. When it is done, turn it upside down on a platter with absorbent paper to drain the butter.

Traditional Vasilopita Recipe by Akis Petretzikis. The recipe for Vasilopita differs from region to region across Greece. Mostly it is sweet, whereas in parts of Macedonia the New Years' Cake is salty. Vasilopita is a traditional Greek bread baked for New Year's Day. The bread contains a hidden coin that is said to bring luck to whoever finds a piece with it. מלונות ליד ‪The Commander of Lesvos Monastery‬. מלונות ליד ‪The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest‬.

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