Individual cheese pies

INDIVIDUAL CHEESE PIES

Dough

Ingredients

1 cup olive oil

250 g. very cold margarine (almost frozen)

1 sachet dry yeast

1/2 cup of warm water

1 cup lukewarm milk or kefir

800 g. flour

1 egg

Instructions

Dough

Dissolve the yeast in a cup of warm water.

Stir in a spoonful of flour, to multiply fungi.

Put the oil in a large bowl.

Grate the margarine with tomato grater.

Mix those two ingredients lightly with a fork.

Add the dissolved yeast into the bowl and mix again with the fork.

Beat the egg slightly and pour it in the bowl.

Add mild or kefir and mix again.

Add the flour little by little into the bowl and knead with your hands.

You are trying to make soft dough that does not stick to hands.

If your dough sticks to hands, add more flour to stiffen it a bit.

If the dough you made is hard, add a little milk and knead to loosen it.

Wrap the bowl around with film for food.

Put over the bowl a clean fluffy towel and put it in a warm place.

Let the dough rise and double its volume.

It is better to prepare the dough overnight, because in the morning is ready for pies.

Stuffing

Ingredients

1/2 kg feta cheese or any white cow cheese

400 g. unsalted cheese or cream cheese

200 g. grated Edam cheese or grated Gouda cheese

2 large eggs  

200 g. whipping cream 30% fat 

Instructions

Stuffing

The feta cheese is kind of soft so rub it with your hands in a bowl.

Add in the bowl the whipping cream and the other grated cheeses.

 Add the eggs lightly beaten.

Knead all ingredients until you achieve a homogeneous mixture.

How to make the pies

Cut a piece of dough that has the size of a walnut.

Put it on your left palm. With your right palm rotate it until it becomes a small ball.

Press with your right hand the dough against you left palm.

Continue pressing until you open a small round sheet on your left palm.

With a teaspoon take a spoonful stuffing and put it on the sheet on your palm.

Fold the sheet and cover the filling.

Press gently and adhere the two parts of the sheets together.

Grease and flour a baking tray and arrange on it the cheese pies next to each other.

Beat an egg well with a fork.

Dip a brush into the egg and coat one by one all the pies.

Place the pan in the oven on the first rack from the bottom.

Bake at 200 degrees Celsius about 30 minutes.