Croatian Pita Recipes

CHEESE PITA

Steps:

• thaw phyllo.
• preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• lay thawed phyllo on a flat surface and cover with damp tea towel.
• mix cheese, eggs and salt - set aside.
• on an 11" x 17" greased baking pan lay phyllo to cover.
• brush with melted butter.
• repeat until there are six layers.
• spread cheese filling evenly over phyllo, leaving about 1/2" around the edges.
• cover with phyllo brushed with butter.
• repeat until there are eight layers.
• tuck in egdes.
• brush top lightly with butter.
• bake until top browns, approximately 30 minutes.

CROATIAN CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Make dough following this schedule: flour, breadcrumbs, and lemon rinds, sugar, baking powder, salt, and vanilla flavored sugar and melted butter.
• Mix everything in a bowl and at the end add egg yolks.
• Mix some more and add sour cream. Mix more until you get nice greasy dough. If it is too greasy you can add some more flour.
• When done, put into refrigerator for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours, put the dough out and work a little to make it soft. Cut ¼ of the dough and put aside.
• Prepare the stuffing by mixing well cheese, sour cream, yolks, sugar, and vanilla sugar.
• Soak raisins in plum brandy or rum until swell up (usually 2 hours).
• From egg white make "snow" and add into stuffing, and add raisins. At the end add grated lemon rinds.
• Roll the rest of dough into ½ cm thin sheet. Cover the bottom of 28cm low rim cake pan with butter, and put onto it a dough sheet. Make sure that the rim is also covered with dough from inside.
• Pour cheese stuffing on dough.
• Roll the rest of the dough into thin sheet and put over the cheese making sure that it is covered.
• Poke 10 holes with a fork on the cover.
• Put the pie into preheated oven on 180°C and bake 50-60 minutes or until it gets light golden.