Cheese Pie with Sparkling Water

For those who don't have time to roll out a sheet of dough or don't know how, then ready-made phyllo crust is a good choice and we find it ready, fresh or frozen in the refrigerators of supermarkets.
I suggest you save this delicious pie recipe, which you can make with the filling you want and thus enjoy an easy and tasty pie and with cheeses of your absolute choice. The ingredient that makes it special and very fluffy with a crispy crust on its surface and with a wonderful taste is a can of Carbonated Water. A drink made from natural mineral water with natural lemon and lime flavors, extremely digestive and refreshing.
Try it at the first opportunity.
☯ If we want, we can prepare it the night before and put it in the oven the next morning. This way we will have a hot, fresh, delicious snack for a Sunday Breakfast.
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work: 0h:45′

time: 1h:30′

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Greek Custard Pie with Sirup-Galaktoboureko

How does it stand out and how do you make a good Galaktoboureko?
Everything plays its role, even the size or material of the baking pan, the quality & quantity of its ingredients, the buttering, the time, the baking, and the syrup as much as are equally important to the success of the dessert. My version is «cold syrup ↔ hot sweet».
Please follow the step-by-step steps below and make this excellent Galaktoboureko all-weather, craving & disposition. A sweet passepartout that is!
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work: 2h:00′

time: 3h:00′

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Tart with Lemon Cream & Blueberries

The Blueberry is a «source of eternal youth» because it prevents the formation of free radicals responsible for skin aging. Many studies show that Blueberries have the highest antioxidant activity than other fruits, offering protection from the "oxidative" attack that the body receives due to aging, infections and exposure to aggravating environmental & nutritional factors, such as cigarette smoke, atmospheric pollutants, toxins, carcinogenic compounds, etc.
In this Sweet Tart the fresh Blueberries were combined with the aroma of lemon and the sheet of crust, was folded in the shape of an accordion, where inside the folded sheets nested a simple cream with eggs & cream well beaten.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:15′

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Cheese Pie Cream

In Greek Traditional Cuisine, one finds many different types of pie, which vary by region, so each region in Greece has its own traditional pie as a point of reference. Sometimes they are the main appetizer or a tasty and healthy snack during the day!

With many variations, different ingredients, a different way of serving and many different names, pies are a characteristic traditional delicacy in every corner of our country. Savory or sweet, with or without foil, round, triangular, simple or complex, traditional pies are a big chapter in Greek Gastronomy.

Besides the variations in the sheet - fresh handmade sheet or ready-made sheet or even without a sheet - there is a wide variety of sheets, some thin and transparent and others thicker. Some pies are prepared with several layers of sheets in the pan and a mixture is thrown inside them, such as spinach, cheese, various greens or vegetables. The variety of pie filling has no limits. You only need your imagination and the pure and fresh ingredients of each place. In addition to the classic pie with cheese or greens, you can put meat, sausages, vegetables, frumenty, pasta and whatever else you want in the filling!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Traditional Greek Orange Cake with Syrup

Juicy, easy, fluffy and full of aromas Traditional Greek Orange Cake with Syrup, which is made with crust leaves, finely chopped & hidden inside and with strained yogurt. It is syruped with a thick orange syrup to make the flavors even more orange. The taste of orange floods the palate so pleasantly and so intensely, uniquely!
Of all the syrupy sweets of Greek Cuisine, this orange pie is by far our favorite. It's because oranges are our favorite fruit! It combines beautifully with a ball of our favorite ice cream and the flavors take off.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Zucchini Pie with Frumenty & Feta Cheese

This is the perfect savory pie you can make when you have overloaded your refrigerator shelves with zucchini from the garden or just got a few more from the flea market or grocery store. The key to this recipe is that you have to completely squeeze the grated zucchini to remove the excess water, so that it does not end up being made into a soup. The rest is a simple game of synthesis of ingredients in a good, very good traditional pie sheet, to highlight the taste of a unique zucchini pie with Greek Feta & Sour Frumenty/ Trachana in Greek …
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Feta Cheese Soufflé Pie in Rolls

Delicious & very special Cheese pie. Suitable for every hour of the day, as a main course, appetizer, snack or lunch!
The main ingredient that we will need to make this cheese pie, is of course the Greek feta, which is the favorite ingredient in all types of Greek pie recipes.
To prepare this cheese pie/ soufflé recipe, the feta is crumbled and rolled into rolls with many pastry sheets and all together sprinkled with a mixture of milk, egg, cream and soft drink soda, which will give this pie volume, fluffy texture and more. Taste.
Bake until puffed and golden.
The Pie is absolutely delicious!

work: 45′

time: 1h:30′

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Custard Filled Pastry Torte

Custard Filled Pastry Torte-Galaktoboureko, festive and favorite!
AND YES we celebrated a Birthday with this syrupy dessert and it eaten to be lukewarm, consumed with great appetite and some (everyone?!?) loved it!
Simplifying the procedures in the dilemma of the term «Birthday Cake» the decision was made and the balance was set in this suggestion here as time and conditions were very limited… It Just very easy with ingredients like fine semolina to make air-foam pastry cream, fresh butter, crunchy pastry sheets, fresh eggs and a light aroma syrup orange. Classic, that is, without the risk of failure and with the phyllo making small crisp nests to embrace the cream. Decorated with a little orange jam and grated pistachio.

Happy Birthday my Baby!

work: 40′

time: 1h:30′

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Spicy Cheese Pie with Tabasco

Spicy, golden brown, fluffy and particularly tasty thanks to the various fresh cheeses, which give it an unparalleled taste. The use of tabasco makes it spicy as long as our palate can withstand. These spicy tones enhance the flavor, so we enjoy a very tasty pie. Once it comes out of the oven it is like a cheese soufflé and where the cheeses have been scattered and joined to the leaves in a uniform form. Yours!

work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

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Cheese Filo Triangles

Wonderful, delicious, dry without extra oils, without greasy texture, that alters their taste and appearance. Follow the instructions and you will have the tastiest triangles cheese pies. If you add them to the serving as long as they are lukewarm, with fresh thyme honey, then the flavors take off and the palate tastes a delicious flavor. Their ingredients are simple and very easy to do.
We preferred for filling the fresh Manouri this extraordinary traditional Greek cheese with its origins dating back to ancient times. It belongs to the category of soft whey cheeses and is produced mainly in Central and Western Macedonia, Thessaly and Crete, having been designated by the Greek National Milk Commission as "the most excellent traditional Greek whey cheese".
It is distinguished by its sweet and mild taste, aroma and texture. Manouri, while considered ideal for the preparation of appetizers, is widely used in a variety of hot or cold, sweet or salty, mainly dessert meals.
Here in these triangular pancakes it was perfect with the Fylo pastry sheets remaining firm, enclosing the cheese.
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work: 40′

time: 40′

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Feta Pie with Peppers

A pie is very special, not only due to its ingredients but also for the technique, and handling of phyllo sheets.
How does the crust phyllo look like country, stay crisp, and distinguish one by one in and on the pie.
If you like pies, this unique category of Greek Cuisine, will compensate you twice: delicious and simple procedures.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

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Crispy Pies with Spinach, Pine & Raisins

Make and share these mini pies, wrapped in crisp crust phyllo pastry sheets, with delicious filling and easy process of making them. Roasted pine nuts, roasted sesame seeds and raisins in their filling give a completely different taste to these individual pies from the classic version of a spinach pie, at least as we know most.
These pies were made with frozen spinach that often solves our hands in preparations for banquets or fast cooking by students, workers and not only.
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work: 30′

time: 40′

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Traditional Milk Pie-Galatopita

A tasty, simple, economical and very easy dairy dessert.
A mixture of rich cream of vanilla pudding mix and semolina with milk, eggs and fresh butter floats the phyllo sheets. In this milk-pie the phyllo pastry sheets are first sprinkled on their own, sprinkled with sugar to obtain a crisp texture and to close the cream and cinnamon sugar. Next, pour the cream mix and re-bake the milk pie.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:20′

very easy:

Broccoli & Feta Savory Tart

Research has conclusively informed us about the protective effect of broccoli and its nutritional value, which places it in a high position with respect to the beneficial contribution to human body.
Wherever we look we will find countless references to how good does that have to integrate in our diet, as it contains very few calories that make it ideal for various types of diets. This vegetable consists of several sections and provides a variety of flavors. One of the main features is the strong smell that emerges when cooked.
The Tart with Broccoli & Feta cheese that «Kitchen Stories» today proposes is delicious, hearty, and may replace a main course.
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work: 20′

time: 50′

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Apple Strudel

Although the contenders of its origin are the Austrians and Germans it does not concern us here, since pretty much all Central Europe and the Balkans have to show similar "pies" in roll form and fruit inside. Infinite variations but the combination of thin, crisp phyllo pastry sheet in layered form of the roll and the soft, sweet fruit inside is the winner of taste.
Wonderful aromas, mild acidic flavors, sweet surprises from the presence of the jam & raisins and very crispy phyllo pastry sheet make this dessert excellent. The almond ground offers refined tones on the palate.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:15′

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Clementine Syrup Cake

Clementine syrup cake with tangerine-scented organic clementines, firm and very, very juicy. They give us plenty, sweet juice and zest of deep orange, with strong aromas of the essential oils. It is a syrupy fragrant and fluffy mandarin pie with pastry sheet crust not too thin, yogurt and semolina.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Cheese Pie with Cabanossi

Cabanossi, this excellent dried sausage, thin and elongated, similar to mild salami and with smoky aftertaste is favorite to all Southern & Eastern Europe from the Adriatic to the Baltic countries. Usually made with chopped pork and smoked meat and sometimes with the addition of a little beef. In Central Europe the Cabanossi, mostly, are consumed as snacks.
This cheese pie is made in the cake tin and gets a round pretty shape. The crust sheets are folded like a fan and close within them a dry mixture of cheese, semolina etc. When sliced becomes obscured the presence of the crust.
Guaranteed without exaggeration is perhaps one of the most delicious and impressive cheese pies, which we have proposed here from the Kitchen Stories. Keep the proportions of the ingredients and how to prepare and include it in your menu. You will not regret it. Deservedly stands in a festive menu, as it is perfectly cut and eaten even at room temperature.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Spiral-Shaped Greek Cheese Pie

Special cheese pie in a spiral shape (twisted or snail) with a thin crust sheet, feta cheese, cheddar, soft strained ricotta, dill and mint. I called it spring because of the herbs that give it flavor and great taste. Enjoy the as main dish combined with a light green salad, to alleviate the high fat taste of mizithra (or ricotta) cheese pie. Also, I suggest you enjoy it with a sturdy spoon of honey onto the hot pie.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:40′

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Hortopita: Greek Savory Pie with Greens, Herbs & Feta Cheese

An epic Savory Pie!
Delicious, hearty in a beautiful phyllo dough almost handmade.
The process is time consuming in particular the very good cleaning and washing, which are required for the preparation of many greens & aromatic plants & herbs.
The entire process can be done in two stages for convenience. Prepare the vegetables from the previous day, let them drain well all night and the next day continue to complete the pie.
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work: 3h:00′

time: 4h:00′

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Baklava

Traditional Baklava, with 40 thin phyllo pastry sheets, with the fragrant and tasty stuffing of roasted walnuts and almonds. Butter gives an excellent aroma and the phyllo pastry sheets creaks the crust in every bite. The syrup is completely absorbed by the baked Baklava and fine semolina swells and gives it volume.
For that baklava, I can write more, particularly praise…
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Merry Christmas!

work: 1h:00′

time: 8h:30′

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