Beef Pita, Greek Style

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Ready In:
1hr 25mins
Ingredients:
21
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Combine ground beef, onion and garlic in a large frying-pan; cook, stirring frequently until beef loses pink color.
  • Pour off drippings.
  • Add mushrooms, bay leaf, salt, chili powder, cumin powder, and cinnamon; cook, stirring frequently, until mushrooms are tender about 5 minutes.
  • Stir in tomato sauce and wine; cook, covered, 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Remove bay leaf.
  • Cool while preparing cheese filling.
  • Combine egg and cream cheese in medium bowl, beat with electric mixer until smooth.
  • Stir in cottage and feta cheeses and blend.
  • Brush 13 x 9-inch baking pan with melted butter.
  • Line pan with 1 sheet of pastry, fitting pastry to contour of pan. (Pastry will come up over edges of pan.) Brush pastry with butter.
  • Layer with 3 more pastry sheets, brushing each with butter.
  • Sprinkle bread crumbs evenly over top.
  • Spoon 1/5 of meat filling in layer over crumbs and 1/5 of the cheese filling over meat.
  • Place 1 pastry sheet over cheese filling, crinkling to fit inside dimensions of pan; brush with butter and layer with 1/5 of the meat and 1/5 to the cheese fillings.
  • Repeat with 3 more pastry sheets, crinkling each, brushing with butter and topping with fillings.
  • Turn bottom pastry ends up over filling.
  • Place remaining 8 pastry sheets smoothly over top, brushing each with butter.
  • Using spatula, tuck top pastry sheets around inside edges of pan.
  • With sharp knife, score top lightly in half lengthwise and sixths crosswise.
  • (Do not cut through) Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 1 hour or until top is golden brown.
  • Cool at least 10 minutes before cutting along scored lines.
  • Place a cherry tomato on each of 12 small wooden picks and insert pick in center of each serving.
  • Garnish with parsley.
  • Garnish individual servings with fresh fruit kabobs, if desired.
  • FRESH FRUIT KABOBS:

  • To make fresh fruit kabobs, place chunks of fresh pineapple, cantaloupe, whole strwberries or other fruits in season on small wooden skewers.

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