Making Banitsa (Spanakopita) with Baba Luba - Cooking with Grandma

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In this episode of Cooking with Grandma, we meet Luba Stoyanoff, also known as Baba. Together with her eldest grandchild, Katherine, Baba prepares banitsa, the Bulgarian version of the Greek spinach pie spanakopita.

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That's really sweet seeing grandmother passing down family tradition and history. **warm and fuzzy feelings**

robandsam

this made me cry. I miss my granny so much!

BebaK

That grandma is so adorable :) Made me think, that it would be cool to make a video/art project interviewing a bunch of older people, and letting them reminisce nostalgically about their past...

karolis

This has probably been my favourate Chow video in a while, more like this please!

mikemorrisbjj

You guys revived Cooking with Grandma! This is awesome!!

BloodudeXD

That was one of the best food tutorials I ever seen. love natural grown foods.

ZMorpheus

O absolutely adore this series. I would even want to film one with my grandmother.

celo

is exactly how my Grandmother used to make "Pita." Thank you for uploading this!!!

I have been searching a long time for this recipe and seeing your finished Pita is absolutely perfect.

My Grandmother was a first-generation American (arriving in 1920) from far Northern Greece and not only called this dish by its simple name of Pita, but made it using multiple layers of filling. All other recipes I've seen use one, giant, layer of filling which is impossible to eat with your hands and requires a fork/knife.

A few things I wanted to note specifically:

1. You need a thick enough dough base and top to hold everything together

2. Multiple layers of filling instead of one giant layer so you can hold it in your hand while eating

3. Simple ingredients. I've seen recipes with multiple cheeses and spices like dill. This was not only too complicated, but expensive. My Grandparents were far from wealthy and ate Pita at least once a week

4. Being extremely superstitious, my Grandma would (only during Christmas and Easter) wrap a quarter in aluminium foil and place it between one of the layers. Similar to the baby in a Mardis Gras King Cake, whomever got the quarter had good luck as long as you didn't break a tooth in the discovery process!

surfingnoid