Portokalopita

Name: Portokalopita
Yield: Makes 20 pieces
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 200 g sugar; 200 ml sunflower oil; 4 large eggs; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 20 g baking powder; 700 g sugar; 3 oranges; salt; 500 g Greek yoghurt to serve; 100 ml fresh orange juice; 450 g filo pastry (thinnest sheets possible); 3 or 4 strips of orange peel (use a potato peeler); 1 cinnamon stick; 200 g full fat strained Greek yoghurt

Preparation info

Makes
20
pieces

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Brunch with Brother Marcus

By Tasos Gaitanos and Alex Large

Published 2023

About

This extraordinarily delicious orange cake is made with strips of filo pastry which give it a wonderful and very unusual texture — it’s light and yet has a spongy density at the same time. Seek out the thinner sheets of filo pastry for best results. This makes a large cake but it keeps well in the fridge and always disappears quickly!

Ingredients

For the Orange Syrup:

700 g sugar
100 ml fresh orange juice
1

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
London
Brunch
Breakfast

Method

First make the syrup. Put the sugar, orange juice, cinnamon and orange peel in a pan with 500ml water and bring to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Simmer for 5 minutes until the syrup is sticky and coats the back of a cold metal spoon. Leave to cool.

Roll up the filo sheets and cut across into strips a centimetre wide (like tagliatelle). Separate them out slightly with you