Tiropita (Greek cheese pie)
Tiropita is a great dish to serve as a starter or side dish to any Mediterranean meal.
Ingredients
- 3 sticks Butter
- 1 1/4 cup Milk
- 1/4 cup Flour
- Red pepper flakes
- Salt
- 1 cup Parsley chopped
- 1 box Phyllo pastry sheets
- 3/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/2 cup Ricotta cheese
- 1/4 cup Cheese shredded
- 3 cups Feta Cheese crumbled
- 2 Eggs
- 4 cloves Garlic
Instructions
- Melt 2 sticks of butter in a small sauce pan
- In another pan melt 1 stick of butter add crushed garlic cloves, salt, nutmeg and flour.
- Cook till fragrant about 3-4 minutes.
- Now add the milk and cook it for 4-5 minutes.
- While your white sauce is simmering crumble up the feta and mix it with the egg and add it to the saucepan with the white sauce.
- Now add the other cheeses and cook it for a few more minutes take it off the stove and add the parsley.
- Now set up your work station.
- Take the dish you want to bake the tiropita in and use the butter you melted and butter your dish.
- Now layer the phyllo sheet on it.
- You have to butter each sheet do this with about 10 sheets.
- Now add the cheese mixture and again later the sheets on top of the cheese mixture.
- Butter each sheet.
- Score your dish like a grid.
- Bake at 375 till golden brown.
