What are Tiropita?

Tiropites are a Greek food made of phyllo dough and spicy filling. They are very popular as appetizers, especially filled, which cheese, classic tiropita content. Baked spicy food is sometimes also offered as part of a large spread of dinner, so guests can have small samples of different foods. Some Greek Delika bear tiropita and are also relatively easy to manufacture at home. Traditional tiropita has a mixture of cheeses, including a feta wrapped in the bark of phyllo dough and baked until gold. Traditionally, Tiropita is packed as a triangle, making it easier to handle fingers. More enterprising chefs use various ingredients in their tiropita, including vegetables and meat. The flexibility of size and fills the chefs to create large plates of appetizers of Tiropit and create an assortment of ordinary, vegetables and meat Tiropita. The remains also produce excellent breakfasts and can be wrapped in wax paper and also for lunch. Some chefs make tiropita in a large pan such as spanacopita, cut the finished cake on the wedges.

If you want to create a basic traditional tiropite, you will need a block of feta cheese, two eggs, ½ cup of soft farmer cheese, two tablespoons kefalotyri, salt, pepper, nutmeg, butter and phyllo. Kefalotyri is a Greek hard cheese and can be used as a substitute in regions where it is not available. If you want to fill, mix the cheeses together with the spices and eggs, and make sure it is mixed evenly so that the filling is not robust. If you bought Phyllo Frozen at the store, let it thaw in the fridge overnight and remove it about an hour before you make Tiropita making.

melt the butter in a pan before putting Phyllo on a clean workspace and cut it in half to form long rectangles. Peel the leaf, place a small amount of filling on it and pack it into a triangle. Wipe the triangle with butter before pulling another leaf of Phyllo and wrap it aroundFirst and clean the finished triangle with butter. Set it on an oil plate and continue making triangles until you run out of the dough or filling. Bake triangles in the furnace 375 degrees Fahrenheit (191 degrees Celsius) for 25 minutes or golden brown. Serve hot or chilled.