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Easter kalitsounia. Kalitsounia (aka Cretan Cheese - Cinnamon Pastries) is one of the most featured Easter dishes in Crete and especially in Chania. A hint of cinnamon and orange makes this delicious Easter cookie called Kalitsounia. It's Foodblog swap time and this time I was assigned to bake from Claudia's Keuken (a Dutch blog).

We make them on Holy Saturday.

Recipe by asproyla One of the most popular sweets in my island Crete.

You can not come to Crete and not try kalitsounia.

You can have Easter kalitsounia using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Easter kalitsounia

  1. You need of Fof the filo pastry.

  2. You need 1 kg of all purpose flour.

  3. Prepare 1 of bit of salt.

  4. You need 1/4 cup of oil.

  5. You need of as much water as it takes.

  6. It’s 1 of little bit of tsikoudia (raki), optionally.

  7. You need of For the filling.

  8. It’s 1 kg of mizithra.

  9. Prepare 250 g of malaka (cretan soft fresh cheese).

  10. You need 1/4 of anthotyro.

  11. You need of spearmint.

  12. Prepare of egg for brushing.

  13. Prepare of sesame seeds.

There are many species according kalitsounia region.

Sweet kalitsounia are made using sweet cheese - mizithra( looks like ricotta ) and there are two types: the lychnarakia that will make it today and anevata. "Kalitsounia" are the beloved sweet cheese pies, usually prepared after church on Holy Thursday in Crete at the time of Easter.

There are dozens of different ways of preparing them from one to the other end of the island.

Hailing from the Greek island of Crete, kalitsounia or skalotsounia is a traditional, small-sized snack that comes in numerous different shapes and can be both savory and sweet.

Easter kalitsounia instructions

  1. Use a bowl to put all the liquids and then gradually add the flour..

  2. After making it, let it rest..

  3. Put all the cheeses in a bowl and then chop the spearmint into it. Use your hands to mix so that all the cheeses integrate well..

  4. Continue by rolling out the filo and cutting it out into squares using a square tea plate and the speciall cutter..

  5. Place an amount of filling that equals two walnuts in each sheet and close it by taking each end and folding it to the center..

  6. Brush with the egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds..

  7. Bake at 200°C..

In its most traditional form, it combines an unleavened pastry and a filling that consists of fresh cow's milk cheese called mizithra.

Sweet varieties enrich the cheese with cinnamon and lemon zest, while the savory.

Place the kalitsounia on the baking sheet and brush lightly with beaten egg to glaze.

Kalitsounia - Easter cookies from Crete. by Rena Cook

I consider myself lucky because my dad's brother married a girl from a village in Crete outside Herakleion, named Hersonissos.