Tiropitta (cheese pie)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
30 Sheets of phyllo (to fit pan 8\" square or 7x11)
1 cup Butter melted
4 Eggs
2 cups (about 1/2 lb.) feta cheese; crumbled or grated
2 cups (about 1 lb) small curd cottage cheese
2 tablespoons Milk
Salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 Brush a baking pan with melted butter. lay 10 sheets of phyllo on bottom of pan, brushing each sheet with melted butter as it is placed in the pan. Beat eggs until thich and foamy. add cheeses and beat well. add 2 Tbs of the melted butter and milk. add salt if needed. beat again. spread half the mixture over phyllo in the pan. top with another 10 sheets of phyllo, again brushing each sheet with butter. spread the other half of the cheese mixture over, and then add the last 10 sheets of phyllo brushing each sheet with butter. trim any excess pastry from the edge. Bake at 350 for 1¼ hours. cut into squares or triangles and serve warm. makes 16 pieces NOTE; be very careful if you add salt. Feta cheese is salty Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by "bevmed" <bevmed@...> on Aug 17, 1997

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