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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Tyropites




Summary
Hot cheese pastries. (A variation of Tyropita)

Ingredients
  • 7/8 cup of feta cheese
  • 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 package of fyllo, approx. 8 sheets
  • 3 1/2 oz of olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons of parsley, fresh, flat leaved, chopped
  • 1 pinch of pepper
 Directions
  • Crumble feta cheese into a bowl.  
  • Add cottage cheese, parsley and eggs and beat together with fork until well blended. 
  • Season with pepper.
  • Cut fyllo pastry down the longest length into 7cm/2 3/4 in strips.  
  • Take 1 strip and cover other strips with damp tea towel. 
  • Brush strip with olive oil and put a heaped teaspoon of the cheese mixture on the bottom left-hand corner.  
  • Fold over the corner with the filling so it meets long side edge and forms a triangle. 
  • Continue folding the filling up and over from side to side to form a neat triangle.  
  • Place on an oiled baking tray and brush with oil. 
  • Continue with the rest of the fyllo pastry and mixture is used.  
  • Bake in preheated oven 190 degrees C/375 degrees F /Gas mark 5 for 15 minutes until golden brown. 
Source: EatGreekTonight

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