TYROPITES (CHEESE PASTRIES)

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Stumbled across these when searching for ZWT recipes. Sound delish! Servings is a wild guess for now; I'll update when I make them.

Provided by KlynnPadilla

Categories     Cheese

Time 30m

Yield 8-12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 7

1/2 cup cottage cheese
2 whole eggs (Beaten)
7/8 cup feta cheese
0.5 (17 ounce) package phyllo dough (Approx. 8 sheets)
3 1/2 ounces olive oil
3 tablespoons fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
1 pinch pepper (To taste)

Steps:

  • Crumble feta cheese into a bowl.
  • Add cottage cheese, parsley and eggs and beat together with fork until well blended.
  • Season with pepper.
  • Cut fyllo pastry down the longest length into 2 3/4-inch strips.
  • Take 1 strip and cover other strips with damp tea towel.
  • Brush strip with olive oil and put a heaped teaspoon of the cheese mixture on the bottom left-hand corner.
  • Fold over the corner with the filling so it meets long side edge and forms a triangle.
  • Continue folding the filling up and over from side to side to form a neat triangle.
  • Place on an oiled baking tray and brush with oil.
  • Continue with the rest of the fyllo pastry and mixture is used.
  • Bake in preheated oven 375 degrees for 15 minutes until golden brown.
  • Serve hot.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 275.4, Fat 19.6, SaturatedFat 5.4, Cholesterol 69.5, Sodium 400.3, Carbohydrate 17.1, Fiber 0.6, Sugar 0.9, Protein 7.7

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