- Mizithropita with honey (small cheese pies)

Category: Mediterranean Diet, Cretan Recipe. 

Serves: 6   
Preparation time: 45min
Level: Easy

 

 

Ingredients:

For the dough

• 1 Kg flour
• ½ glass ^eleon^ extra virgin olive oil  $
• salt

Filling

• 1 kg sour mizithra* cheese

* Mizithra or Myzithra is a traditional, unpasteurized fresh soft cheese made with milk and whey from sheep and/or goats. The ratio of milk to whey usually is 7 to 3.
It is primarily produced on the island of Crete, but other areas in Greece also produce it.

 Garnish

• Cinnamon and honey

Preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients for the dough and knead the dough until it is very soft. Let it rise.
2. After it has risen, dip your hands in water and take a small piece of dough (the size of an apricot), make it round, open it slightly in the middle, fill it with a tbsp. of mizithra cheese and close it again. 
3. With wet hands place it on a non-stick frying pan with some oil and start pressing it with your hand from the center to the edges of the pan. 
4. Fry it until it browns on both sides. 
5. Serve with cinnamon and honey.

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