Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, zucchini and cheese pie with homemade filo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pites like this Greek zucchini pie, are what Greeks call their pies that are made with vegetables or cheese surrounded by layers of phyllo. Traditional Greek recipes for homemade pies use homemade phyllo dough or commercial 'village' dough (xoriatiko phyllo), which is a little bit thicker than the usually paper thin phyllo and gives a more rustic touch. It's a Zucchini Pie made with crispy phyllo and a delicious, creamy Greek yogurt, feta cheese, and herb filling.
Zucchini and cheese pie with homemade filo is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Zucchini and cheese pie with homemade filo is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook zucchini and cheese pie with homemade filo using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Zucchini and cheese pie with homemade filo:
- Get For the dough
- Take 1 kg flour
- Get 3 tbsp oil
- Get 2 tbsp vinegar
- Get 2 cups water
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Make ready For the filling
- Get 1 kg zucchinis, grated, which you season with salt and leave in a strainer to drain
- Get about 250 g feta cheese
- Prepare 2 grated onions
- Take 3 eggs
- Get 1 handful finely chopped dill
- Take 3 tbsp oil
- Prepare 3 tbsp fine semolina
- Get 3 tbsp double cream (optional)
- Make ready pepper
- Get 1 little nutmeg
Place more layers of phyllo on top so your pie looks nice. Place a sheet of phyllo on top of the filling and tuck it down along the edges to help seal in the filling. Brush with melted butter, and then add another layer of phyllo. Continue until you use up the remaining phyllo.
Instructions to make Zucchini and cheese pie with homemade filo:
- Make the doughPlace the flour in the mixer bowl, make a well and add the ingredients. Knead until you have a soft pliable dough.
- Divide into six small balls.
- Set aside to rest for a while.
- Prepare the fillingPlace the zucchinis that you had left with the salt into a bowl after squeezing them thoroughly.
- Continue by adding all the ingredients one by one and mix.
- Brush the baking tray with oil.
- Roll out two filo sheets larger than the baking tray and fan them out brushing them with oil.
- Add half the filling.
- Place two more filo sheets (brushing them with oil).
- Add the rest of the filling and cover with the last filo sheets.
- Make the last filo sheet larger and shift it around as you fan it out so that it wrinkles.
- When you are done, roll the excess top filo sheets (the ones that are larger) inwards to form a decorative ring around the perimeter of the pie.
- Score the pie into pieces and brush with oil.
- Bake at 180°C for one hour.
Finally, brush the top layer with melted butter, too. Cover with plastic wrap, wax paper, or a damp kitchen towel and leave at room temperature. The Zucchini Fillo Pie, finished, is spectacular. A fillo pie that hails from northern Greece. What's different about this pie, is the copious use of yogurt.
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