Bougatsa

Bougatsa ( other spellings: Bugatsa, Bugaza; Greek: Μπουγάτσα, Turkish: Pogaca ) is a Greek pastry made of puff pastry, which is especially common in northern Greece around Thessaloniki.

The Bougatsa can also be hearty cooked with cheese, minced meat or spinach filling both as a dessert with cream or with semolina pudding as. The filling is plotted between the layers of puff pastry, which is then ready baked in the oven. Before serving Bougatsa is often cut into smaller pieces and sprinkled depending on flavor with powdered sugar and / or cinnamon. Bougatsa with cheese filling resembles the taste was another Greek pastry dish, the Tyropita, and therefore is often confused with it.