Tyropites (Cheese Pastries)

KlynnPadilla's Note:

Stumbled across these when searching for ZWT recipes. Sound delish! Servings is a wild guess for now; I'll update when I make them.

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 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:

1. Crumble feta cheese into a bowl.
2. Add cottage cheese, parsley and eggs and beat together with fork until well blended.
3. Season with pepper.
4. Cut fyllo pastry down the longest length into 2 3/4-inch strips.
5. Take 1 strip and cover other strips with damp tea towel.
6. Brush strip with olive oil and put a heaped teaspoon of the cheese mixture on the bottom left-hand corner.
7. Fold over the corner with the filling so it meets long side edge and forms a triangle.
8. Continue folding the filling up and over from side to side to form a neat triangle.
9. Place on an oiled baking tray and brush with oil.
10. Continue with the rest of the fyllo pastry and mixture is used.
11. Bake in preheated oven 375 degrees for 15 minutes until golden brown.
12. Serve hot.

Reviews

[Mulligan]

I agree wth the previous poster, I prefer butter as the greasing agent. I made half with butter and half with the olive oil. The olive oil pastries ended up flaking out more than the better ones. I was able to make 15 triangles (4 layers thick) and ran out of phyllo. I still had a little bit of cheese left over. It was still good and we ended up eating all of them. Made for ZWT4 - Chic Chefs.

[evelyn/athens]

Good basic recipe. I got 5 little cheese pies by scaling this down to 2 servings - one for each person in the familly. We all liked them. I must say, I do prefer butter as the greasing agent for cheese pies, but these were good, too.