Triangular cheese pies

TRIANGULAR CHEESE PIES

Stuffing

Ingredients

1/2 kilo feta cheese or any white soft cheese

300g Cretan gruyere or any yellow cheese

400 grams unsalted cheese or cream cheese

3 eggs,

200 ml whipping cream 30% fat

Pepper to taste

Instruction

Cut feta into slices and rub them with your fingers in a bowl.

Grate the Gruyere and add it in the bowl.

Put the cream cheese, the eggs, the cream and the pepper into the bowl.

Knead all this ingredients well.

Sheet

Ingredients

1/2 kilo of pastry sheet (the Greek stores sell fillo krustas of Kanakis Co)

80 g. olive oil,

180 g margarine

Instructions

Put in a small pan the oil and the margarine.

Place the pan over low heat and heat it up until margarine melts.

Each pastry packet contains 12 or 13 sheets.

These sheets are folded together in half and wrapped in a cylinder.

Unwrap the sheets and open them all together on the working surface.

The sheets are layered one on top of the other.

Keep the sheets stacked together.

Divide the sheets’ length in six equal parts. Cut with a sharp knife, creating six oblong piles perpendicular to the sheets length.

Use one stripe to make one cheese pie.

In this way from a pastry sheet package you will make 72 or 78 pies, depending on the number of the sheets in the package.

Dip a brush in melted margarine and lightly smear the six stripes on to.

On the left edge of each stripe put a tablespoon of filling.

Take each one of the six stripes and fold the left edge diagonally. Stick it to the right size of the stripe enclosing the stuffing.

This forms a triangle hanging from the bottom of the stripe.

Folded the sheet at the upper side of the triangle and it rises on the right side of the stripe.

Fold the sheet diagonally and the triangle comes on the left side of the stripe.

Continue this way until all the sheet of each stripe is wrapped around the filling. 

 This way the filling is enclosed by the sheet.

Repeat the same procedure with the rest of the stripes.

Place the pies in a greased and floured pizza pan.

Dip again the brush in the melted margarine and lightly smear the next six stripes that come on top.

Put a tablespoon of filling on the left edge of each strip and wrap the cheese pies as before.

The stripes of sheets often stick together, so take care to get a single stripe for each pie.

Continue in the same way until you run out of stuffing.

Smear all pies overhead lightly with melted margarine.

Place the pan on the bottom rack of the oven and bake at 170 C degrees for 40 minutes.