Tyropitta roumeliotiki (cheese pie)
6 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
2 | pounds | Feta cheese, crumbled |
10 | eaches | Eggs, lightly beaten |
1¼ | pounds | Phylo pastry |
½ | cup | Melted butter for brushing |
Directions
Crumble feta cheese and mix with beaten eggs. Butter a baking pan the size of the phyllo pastry. Put four sheets of phyllo into the pan, brushing each one with melted butter. Spoon in some of the cheese mixture; top with 2 more phyllo sheets, brushing them with butter. Continue in this manner until all cheese mixture is used up, saving 4 sheets of phyllo for top of pie.
Score lightly in long strips. Bake in preheated 300 F. oven for about 45 min. Cut scored strips into 2-inch pcs. and serve hot.
Serves 6-8.