Summary
Minced meat stuffed in a fyllo pastry.
Ingredients
- 1 lb of ground beef
- a little, unsalted butter
- 1 cup of feta cheese, grated
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 package fyllo pastry
- 2 tablespoons of liquor (Marsala)
- 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
- 1/4 cup of olive oil
- 1 medium, white onion, grated
- 1-2 pinches of pepper
- 2-3 pinches of salt
- 2 tablespoons of tomato (paste)
- 2 cups of water
- In a saucepan add oil & saute onion.
- Add mince and brown.
- Mix the tomato paste with about 2 cups water and add marsala and spices and cook on med. heat until mince is cooked and not much sauce remaining in pan.
- Remove from stove, add grated feta cheese, beaten eggs, stir, put aside.
- Remove fyllo pastry from package and cut down lengthwise.
- Keep covered with a moist tea towel.
- Take one cut sheet and brush with melted butter, then fold lengthwise again so you have a long strip, doubled.
- At bottom, place a spoonful of mixture.
- Pick fyllo from bottom and fold upwards about 3cm enclosing the meat mixture press sides,then start folding to make a triangle making sure the corners are not sticking outside the fold.
- You go right, right, bring that point to the left side and left again and so on until you reach the top.
- Brush top of triangle with melted butter and place on baking greased baking tray,
- Bake in 200 degree oven until golden brown.
- These triangles can be frozen uncooked.
- When cooking from frozen stage don't defrost first.
- Sometimes you may have to flip them over in the oven.
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