Milopita (greek apple pastry)

8 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
Karen Mintzias
8 Apples*
½ cup Sugar
½ teaspoon Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Allspice
1 cup Powdered sugar
1 pounds Commercial filo sheets
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
¼ cup Currants or raisins
½ cup Walnuts
½ cup Butter; melted

Directions

FILLING

TOPPING

*Note- Apples should be cored, peeled and chopped. If desired, 2 cups canned apples (drained) may be substituted.

Defrost frozen filo to room temperature, 2 to 4 hours. Mix filling in a bowl tossing ingredients with a spoon. Set aside.

Lay 5 sheets filo flat, one on top of each other, with a little melted butter brushed between the sheets. Spread 1 cup of filling along one end. Roll filo over the apple filling so you will have a long filled tube. Fold side edges over ½" so filling won't fall out. Continue rolling.

Place in a buttered baking pan or cookie sheet. Brush tops generously with melted butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Sift powdered sugar over tops and sides as soon as it is taken out of the oven and while still hot. When cool, cut into 2" pieces and serve.

Source: "The Complete Greek Cookbook" by Theresa Karas Yianilos; Avenel Books, New York.

Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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