Tyropites (Cheese Pastries)
- Reviews 2
Ready In: 30 mins
Serves: 8-12
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup cottage cheese
- 2 whole eggs (Beaten)
- 7⁄8 cup feta cheese
- 0.5 (17 ounce) package phyllo dough (Approx. 8 sheets)
- 3 1⁄2 ounces olive oil
- 3 tablespoons fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 1 pinch pepper (To taste)
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 2 3/4-inch 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 375 degrees for 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Serve hot.
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