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Serves
4-6
Author Notes
I appreciate Greek meals and I appreciate cheese and pastry.I came upon this recipe in Vefa’s Kitchen and made it my possess wishing I used to be Greek myself. Kataifi pastry is shredded filo and would possibly perhaps in actuality feel overwhelming on the muse glance, but found it fairly forgiving to work with and its still nature transfers into a still nature of the dish. You will be ready to build it sooner than time and even freeze, making it a ideal dish to for friends. I judge that what makes this dish over the tip is a squeeze of sleek lemon on top upright sooner than you eat it. When it’s room temperature, it pops upright out of the baking dish. I’ve decrease it up in wedges and introduced it with me for some meals on the flee. You will be ready to resolve out about a of the cheese and change it with ham or bacon as wisely. I’ve also thrown in some sleek thyme leaves. It in actuality can resolve on irrespective of tone potentialities are you’ll perhaps perhaps appreciate. —MyCommunalTable
Ingredients
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4 tablespoons
butter, plus extra for greasing dish
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4
eggs
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sleek cracked pepper
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Pinch
salt
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7 ounces
feta cheese, crumbled
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1 1/2 cups
kaseri or gruyere cheese, grated
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11 ounces
kataifi pastry
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4 tablespoons
vegetable oil
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2/3 cup
milk
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2/3 cup
heavy cream
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1
lemon, decrease in wedges, to support with every serving
Instructions
- Butter an ovenproof dish.
- Beat 2 of the eggs in a bowl, season with pepper, then skedaddle in the cheese. Dwelling this filling apart till ready to exercise in pastry.
- Tease out the kataifi pastry into 20-25 long strand sections. Retain pastry coated with a moist towel to build them moist.
- Elevate one share of kataifi and pat it down gently. Jam about one tablespoon of cheese combination at one kill of pastry and roll up after which situation in baking dish. Continue till cheese combination is rolled up and dish is stuffed.
- Warmth butter and corn oil together and pour about teaspoon over every roll. At this point, potentialities are you’ll perhaps perhaps also wrap and keep in freezer or situation in fridge for roughly 24 hours.
- One hour sooner than baking, beat together milk, cream and last 2 eggs. Season with pepper. Pour over cheese rolls and let sit down for roughly 1 hour or till liquid is absorbed.
- Bake in preheated 350F oven for roughly 35-forty five minutes. It is seemingly you’ll perhaps prefer it golden brown and the egg cooked. Reduction today with a wedge of lemon to be squeezed on the tip sooner than drinking.