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Greek Cheese Pies Recipe


Greek Cheese Pies Recipe
It is customary in Greece for local dishes to be given the name of the area or region where they originated; thus, sfakianopites are named for Sfakia, a lovely area of Crete The cheese is a soft and mild cheese. There are a variety of recipes an... More

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Ingredients
  • 10 tablespoons of flour
  • 10 tablespoons "mizithra cheese" (Closest substitute is
  • probably Ricotta, or cottage cheese)
  • a little oil, salt and as much water ( may be some ouzo too ) as needed.
  • Honey

Directions
  1. Prepare a soft dough with the flour, the water,
  2. the oil and some salt.
  3. Roll it out and prepare 10 pieces the size of a small
  4. saucer.
  5. Shape 10 small balls with the cheese and put one ball
  6. on each piece of dough,pulling at the sides of dough so as to cover the cheese. .
  7. Press this down again with the rolling pin so that each ball
  8. is the size of a small saucer.
  9. Fry in a pan ( non stick ) with little or without oil, turning them round constantly so they won't burn.
  10. Pour (thyme) honey over each one before serving.

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Comments


Very nice post and description!


Hmmm like the ouzo addition


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