Tiropetes Recipes

TIROPITA

Steps:

• Melt 6 tablespoons butter in small saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk in the flour until smooth and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Gradually pour in the milk, stirring constantly with a whisk or wooden spoon. Add the salt and nutmeg, stirring occasionally, until mixture is bubbly and thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Mash the feta cheese with a fork in a bowl and stir in the grated kefalotiri, beaten eggs, and parsley. Pour in the hot white sauce and mix well.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Line the buttered baking dish with a sheet of phyllo dough and brush it with melted butter; keep the remaining phyllo sheets covered with plastic wrap while you work. Repeat with half of the phyllo sheets, brushing each sheet with butter, and letting them come up the sides of the baking dish. Pour in the cheese filling.
• Lay the remaining pastry sheets on top of the filling, brushing each with butter. Brush the top of the last sheet with butter and, with a sharp knife, score the top sheets into strips about 3 inches wide from one end of the baking dish to the other.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the pastry is golden brown and crisp, about 45 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes, then cut into squares and serve hot.

TIROPITAS: PHYLLO CHEESE TRIANGLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease 2 large baking sheets.

TIROPETAS

Steps:

• With a fork cream the feta, cottage cheese and cream cheese together until smooth.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until smooth.
• Mix in the parsley, pepper and nutmeg.
• Lay out phyllo, one sheet at a time (keep remaining sheets covered with damp cloth) and cut into strips 1 3/4 inches wide. Brush each strip with melted butter. Fold over bottom edge a quarter inch.
• Place less than a teaspoon of filling on the folded-over end of pastry strip and fold over one corner to make a triangle; continue folding pastry from side to side in shape of a triangle (like folding a flag). Place seam side down on baking sheet. Continue until filling is used up. Brush tops of pastries with melted butter.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 18 miutes, until golden brown.
• Refrigerate, or freeze if desired. To serve, if frozen, place directly from freezer in oven at 350 degrees and bake for about 15 minutes, or until heated through and butter is bubbling. If refrigerated bake for only 10 minutes.

TIROPETES

Steps:

• Thaw boxes of phyllo in refridg over night. Take boxes from fridg and let rest on counter for 30 minutes. Then, dampen a kitchen dish towel and cover the rectangle sheets with it. Take one sheet at a time and brush it with melted butter or olive oil*. Repeat 2 times. Cut lengthwise into 4 strips about 2" wide. Drop a t. of cheese filling in corner of each strip and fold like a flag. Seal edges with butter Bake for 350 for 15-20 minutes.

TRADITIONAL GREEK TIROPETES (CHEESE PHYLLO PIE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Combine crumbled feta and ricotta cheeses.
• Add eggs and beat thouroughly, then parsley and mix well.
• Lay 1 sheet of phyllo dough in a 9x9 in baking dish and brush lightly with melted butter.
• Lay another sheet of phyllo dough on top, brush with butter, and repeat with four more sheets of phyllo.
• Spread cheese mixture into pan and place another 6 sheets of phyllo in the same process as before.
• Place in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Serve while hot.

GREEK CHEESE PASTRIES (TIROPITES)

Steps:

• Mix together the cheeses, eggs, parsley, salt, and pepper. Cut the phyllo sheets crosswise into 3 rectangles. Place a rectangle on a work surface and gently brush with melted butter. Place 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of the cheese mixture in one corner.
• Fold the rectangles in half lengthwise to cover the cheese mixture.
• Fold the corner with the cheese mixture diagonally to make a point, and continue folding and rolling the triangle until the entire piece of dough is wrapped around the filling.
• Repeat with the remaining dough and filling. (The tiropites may be frozen at this point and baked directly from the.
• freezer.).
• Place on a lightly greased baking sheet and brush with melted butter.
• Bake in a preheated 425F oven until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Serve warm or at room temperature.

TIROPITES

Steps:

• Beat eggs well. Add ricotta and cream cheese to eggs and beat to a thick creamy consistency. Add salt and pepper and blend well.
• Place a sheet of phyllo dough on work surface. Cut into three strips, lengthwise. Brush top side of each strip with melted butter. Drop a teaspoon of cheese mixture on edge of lower corner of strip, fold over one edge to meet the other, continue to fold side to side (like folding a flag). Brush entire triangle with melted butter and lay seam side down on baking sheet.
• Bake at 350°F for 15 - 18 minutes, until golden brown. Serve hot.