Tyropites Cheese Pastries Recipes

TIROPETES

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour until smooth. Gradually stir in the hot milk so that no lumps form. Cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens enough to coat a metal spoon. Season with salt and white pepper, remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
• When the sauce is cooled, stir in the feta cheese, egg yolks, Monterey jack cheese, 3 tablespoons melted butter and parsley.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Cut the sheets of phyllo dough into strips about 3 inches wide. Use one stack at a time, covering the rest with a damp towel to keep them from drying out.
• Lay out one piece of phyllo at a time. Brush with butter, and place about 1 teaspoon of the cheese mixture on one end. Fold one corner up to match the other edge. Continue folding in triangle shape until you reach the end of the strip. Place on a baking sheet, and continue with the remaining strips of dough.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. These can also be prepared ahead of time, and frozen after folding. Bake when ready to serve.

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.
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• 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.

TYROPITES (CHEESE PASTRIES)

Steps:

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