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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Pies with Ricotta, Mozzarella & Gruyere Cheese

As has been repeatedly written here, in several recipes, savory and sweet, Kourou Dough -yogurt dough- is so pliable, soft & velvety, and which we love to make for its ease of handling.
The pies are filled with any filling we like. Here their cheese filling was, in addition to fresh Anthotyros (like Ricotta), straight from its source of production and from the first to start using fresh milk, Tyromalama (like Mozzarella) and Gruyere Cheese. The 3 most beloved cheeses of Crete were combined and made into pies.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:00′

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Spinach & Feta Rolls

Flour and water!
No yeast, no leavening agents. Simple and incredibly delicious & quick Spinach Cheesecake rolls, plain Cheesecake or both at the same time!
Let's bake delicious pie in the shape of a roll, where the ratio of filling and foil is evenly distributed for more flavor, more crispy effect and for all hours.
The ingredients of this pie are excellent and the proportions perfectly adjusted for a delicious pie or rather 2 pies in one.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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Fried Cheese Pies

Fried Cheese Pies, with excellent cheeses, are super tasty and easy to make. Like saying 3 in one!
I choose a lovely fresh country market sheet to wrap these triangular cheesecakes and enhance the flavor & their convenience for when I want a quick and easy snack for all hours of the day or for a larger production for several people…
Ideally and very often they become our favorites at a Sunday brunch, along with other delicacies Savory and Sweets.
Of course, they are loved by our family, they all love them bathed in Greek thyme honey.
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work: 45′

time: 45′

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Pie in Puff Pastry Sheet

Among the many and delicious dishes that the Greek Diet includes, the various pies stand out and write their own chapter in the impressively rich culinary narrative of the Pie.
With simple raw ingredients, pies were for many housewives the daily treat, and which accompanied a people with a tradition in animal husbandry and agriculture, satisfying their nutritional and practical needs. The traditional recipes of our country have a fixed place in our kitchen.

The tradition of a delicious pie still exists today with the ease of finding raw ingredients as well as ready-made sheets for quick selection for many workers, mothers and housewives.

Today's pie wrapped in puff pastry is a quick pie with delicious, many and different ingredients that make it delicious and filling.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:40′

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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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Cheese Bread

Delicious Cheese Bread complete and absolute in taste and content. A fluffy puff pastry, stuffed with Greek feta cheese and yellow cheese.
Easy & quick process without any effort, with the end result of this delicious bread, to become our hearty snack or to accompany a plate of pulses on winter days.
The dough can be made from the previous one and put in the fridge or stay on our kitchen counter all night, depending on the weather. The next day we complete the preparation and bake.
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work: 30′

time: 3h:30′

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Traditional Kalitsounia of Chania, Crete

In the traditional agricultural and urban Cuisine of Crete, the products that the rural populations, for centuries now, produce and consume on their own until communications changed, so that they can find them elsewhere inside or outside of Greece, played a leading role.
Some of these products had their place of honor on the big, important festive days of Christmas, Easter, August fifteenth… Then the housewives made the famous Kalitsounia in large quantities for family but also to friends, neighbors and visitors.
Today's Kalitsounia have their roots of Chania, whose inhabitants, due to the soil morphology of the place, had the main occupation of grazing sheep. As a result, dairy farming was a parallel profession, so that they could make use of the milk they had in the mountainous area of Psiloritis.
Try them!

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work: 3h:00′

time: 3h:00′

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Ham Cheese Pie with Cream

Everyone likes this pie, I always make it with a puff pastry sheet to keep all the delicious, soft and fluffy filling inside. A sheet at the bottom, a sheet at the top and in between a filling based on a light béchamel cream, made with corn flour and which makes it look like a millefeuille.
We choose plenty of favorite cheeses & hams. I chose to put smoked turkey fillet but also any other ham, that you like, does to make it delicious. Make holes in the puff pastry to remove the moisture inside the pie and not to wipe the sheet, so that it becomes crispy.
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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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Little Aubergine Pies with Homemade Kourou Dough

A Kourou Dough -Yogurt Dough- so pliable & velvety, which you will love for the comfort of its management. The pies are filled with whatever stuffing we like. Wonderful Aubergine Pies were made here, very tasty & fluffy and where the tender, grated, biscuit dough competes equally with the wonderfully delicious stuffing with eggplant and Greek cheeses, such as Gruyère & kasseri or emmental. The blue poppy seed gives them an extra click of flavor.
A suggestion for a snack for the morning coffee but also for a beer or… why not, with an easy drink and fruity wine, iced & dry Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie -the most popular variety of Italy- on our summer terrace with dear friends.
Cheers!

work: 1h:00′

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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Spinach & Cheese Hand Pies for a Snack

If dough for pies and pie pastries isn't your strong point or you don't have time for complicated processes, then this suggestion is up to you. A velvety yogurt pastry, fluffy & soft, light & tasty with little ingredients, a little time and that's all.
Try making small pies (according to the detailed steps in the recipe), which will be easy to open phyllo sheet, stuffed with fresh tender spinach, Greek feta and yellow gouda cheese or whatever other yellow cheese you like to give it extra flavor and consistency in filling. Don't forget to add freshly ground pepper and paprika sweet or spicy to your taste!
Delicious and quick snack for a delicious meal that can be accompanied by a glass of wine in a small group of people.
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work: 1h:00′

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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Feta Cheese Bread - Tyropsomo

Traditional Cheese bread/Cheese pie with a spiral-shaped slice, combining the shape of a circle and its dynamic movement, symbolizes Time. As part of the smooth endless line it also symbolizes the development, continuity, pace of breathing and life itself. It becomes our own consciousness to accept the turns, the changes and the evolution of life.
Usually the old housewives this cheese-making made it by holding a little of the dough with which they made their bread with the classical technique of the natural yeast… then came the ready-made yeast, fresh or dried and of course the quick way of our life to make us forget the existence of the primitive process of maturation of the mother yeast…
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work: 20′

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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Spinach & Cheese Mini Pies

These Spinach Pies & Cheeses are made with Yoghurt Dough and baked in the oven. They are delicious and cute, as they are small, though with a lengthy process. If you are not busy and have fun dealing with anxiolytic procedures, such as dough, make them and enjoy them at your festive table. It is ideal finger food and perfect for a buffet. They are worth their effort.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:30′

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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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Leek Pie with Country Style Phyllo Sheet

Favorite pies of Greek Cuisine, favorite and the ingredients, which are added each time between the phyllo -different dough phyllo- to create a rich, tasty, ingredients and aroma, pie. There are also excellent traditional pies, which are made without any dough phyllo.
The proposal here is a pie with crispy, rusty leaves in the middle, which give it a large but distinctive taste. Its predominant ingredient is leeks and pork mince. In a regional role, but equally important is cheese, eggs, sweet or sour thyme, carrot to lighten the composition, olive oil and onions, many onions.
A versatile pie in flavors and the amount of ingredients we prefer, without omitting the leek most to justify the title.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Pockets with Yoghurt Dough

These cute cheese pies, with beautiful yoghurt dough, are done as easily as we can not imagine. The process is time-consuming but straightforward thanks to the yoghurt dough, which gives us supple, velvety, trouble-free management and good results dough.
These pies are great, even with various or different stuffings οn the table, buffet and healthy snacks at school and at work because even cold is still irresistible, delicious, crisp and very special. I usually almost always add turmeric to the stuffing, whatever it is. Add it to your diet, it's worth it!
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work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:45′

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