🍯 No Baking! Easy & Delicious Frigania Zakynthou - The Greek Sweet That Enchanted the Internet!

Greek yogurt

🥗Healthier: low-fat yogurt

💰Cheaper: regular yogurt

Low-fat yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

honey

🥗Healthier: agave syrup

💰Cheaper: maple syrup

Agave syrup is a lower-calorie sweetener.

walnuts

🥗Healthier: almonds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Almonds provide healthy fats and are often cheaper.

ladyfingers

🥗Healthier: sponge cake

💰Cheaper: pound cake

Sponge cake is lighter and can be made easily at home.

Simmer 150 ml of water, 150 g of sugar, and a mastic or cinnamon stick for 3 minutes to make syrup.

Add the hot syrup over the 9 bread rusks and set aside.

In a bowl, combine 1 litre of milk, 3 egg yolks, 100 g of sugar, 100 g of cornstarch, and vanilla extract.

Add 50 g of butter to the mixture and mix well to create pastry cream.

Cover the pastry cream and set aside to cool down.

Pour the pastry cream over the syruped rusks.

Cover the dessert and place it in the fridge.

Whip 350 g of whipping cream with 100 g of sugar until fluffy.

Spread the whipped cream on top of the dessert.

Top with 100 g of pistachio or other nuts, or just sprinkle with cinnamon.

Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

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