Vermicelli Cheese Casserole
300 grams of vermicelli
60 grams of butter
6 eggs
1 egg yolk
2 cups cottage cheese
1.25 cups sour cream
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
Grated rind of 1 lemon
Raisins
filo dough
cook the vermicelli as for soup, strain it, mix in the butter while it is still warm so that it had a soft mixable consistency, and then set it aside to cool.
separated the 6 eggs, whip the yolks with the sugar, vanilla sugar, and lemon zest until foamy, then beat the whites into a stiff foam.
mix the cottage cheese, sour cream, raisins, and finally the vermicelli to the foamed egg yolk-sugar mass.
carefully but firmly added to the whipped whites.
grease a 20×30 cm baking sheet with oil, put 1 fillo sheet on it, greased it with oil, another fillo sheet, grease with oil, third fillo sheet, put the cottage cheese mixture on it.
spread 3 layers of fillo on top of the mass, smearing each layer with oil, the top most pastry sheet with the egg yolk (mixed with a little oil).
bake it in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
When it cooled, sprinkle it with powdered sugar.