Anastasia's Tyropita (Cheese Pie)
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 kg phyllo pastry
- 400 g feta cheese
- 2 g mint, finely chopped
- 5 eggs
- 20 g baking powder
- 1⁄2 liter whole milk
directions
- Line the bottom of a large baking dish (peferably circular or at least curved)with a sheet of filo. Take a sheet of filo and brush it with melted butter and sprinkle it sparingly (really sparingly) with feta and then mint. Fold the sheet in in four along its length and place round the edge of the dish. Repeat with another sheet, and then another, and so on, forming a spiral inwards towards the centre, until the dish is full.
- For the batter, mix the milk and baking powder. Beat the eggs and add them to the mixture.
- Pour the mixture evenly over the pie. Brush any remaining melted butter over the top.
- Place in an oven preheated to 160C for 20 minutes, or until the surface is golden brown.
- Serve wile warm (thought it is fine cold). Unlike the most familiar tyropita, it is cut in segments, like a cake.
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Been a philhellene ever since I started ancient Greek when I was ten. I love the modern language as well and visit Greece lt boomost years. Usually I spend time in Visitsa, a beautiful 17th century town high up on the beautiful Mount Pelion and overlooking the Pagasitic Gulf. The food in this region is particularly good - kid stewed in lemon, spetsofai, local versions of haggis and blood pudding in the winter.
I cook from recipes, but have never made up a recipe myself. I have become interested in the traditions of Greek cuisine. In fact I am translating the recipes from what became a cult book about the social and life of the affluent Greeks of Constantinople: "City Cuisine".