Maznik — Print Recipe — The Culinary Codex

A beautiful spiral of hand-stretched dough filled with creamy white cheese, coiled into a snail-shell shape and baked until flaky and golden. This elegant pastry is Kosovar baking at its finest.

Ingredients

500g all-purpose flour
250ml warm water
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp vegetable oil
400g white cheese, crumbled
2 eggs
100g butter, melted
100ml yogurt

Instructions

1 Make dough from flour, water, salt, and oil, knead well, divide into balls, and rest for thirty minutes.
2 Mix crumbled white cheese with eggs and yogurt for the filling.
3 Stretch each dough ball as thin as possible on a floured surface.
4 Brush with melted butter, spread cheese filling along one edge, and roll into a long tube.
5 Starting from the center of a greased round tray, coil the tube in a spiral, adding more filled tubes to extend the coil.
6 Brush the top with butter and bake at 190°C for thirty to thirty-five minutes until golden and crisp.

Did You Know?

A well-made maznik can have a coil so tight and even that it resembles a nautilus shell.