Recipe: Delicious Sfakianopites

Recipe: Delicious Sfakianopites Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Sfakianopites. Sfakianopita is a traditional Cretan treat that couples layers of thin, unleavened dough and soft white whey cheese. The pie is typically made with flour, olive oil, water, salt, and a shot of raki (Cretan tsikoudia), and rather than being filled with local myzithra cheese, the dough is kneaded with the cheese. Mix all together by hand and knead well into ball..

It is customary in Greece for local dishes to be given the name of the area or region where they originated; thus, sfakianopites are named for Sfakia, a lovely area of Crete.

These cheese pies, made with ouzo, can be served as a meze with ouzo, raki, or tsikoudia (local spirits), as snacks, appetizers, and as a side dish.

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You can have Sfakianopites using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sfakianopites

1. You need of For the dough.

2. You need 1/2 kg of flour.

3. Prepare 1/4 cup of raki.

4. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.

5. It’s 1 cup of water.

6. Prepare 1 of bit of salt.

7. It’s of For the filling.

8. You need 1/2 of anthotyro.

Sun-kissed traditional cheese pies Sfakianopites [:Σφακιανόπιτες] from Crete island.

Very popular pies in Crete not only for their flavor but also for their ease of preparation of the.

It is found almost everywhere in Sfakia, all over the prefecture of Chania, and not only.

Try it and you will never forget!

Sfakianopites step by step

1. Mix the flour with the oil so that the flour is well oiled..

2. Add the rest of the ingredients..

3. Separate the dough into 10 small balls..

4. Let the dough rest..

5. About half an hour later take each small ball, stretch it a bit using your hands, put a bit of anthotyro in the center and pinch the edges together..

6. Place it on your working surface with the closed side at the bottom. Lightly press on top and roll it out to the size of a small dessert plate..

7. Put a bit of oil in the pan each time and fry the sfakianopites one by one. If the dough that we rolled out has bubbles -which means that it has air-   poke with a toothpick to release the air..

8. When they are fried, serve drizzled with honey or salted kefalotyri..

Sfakianopites- These magical pies from Sfakia start as seamless balls of dough filled with cheese, then rolled into thin cheese filled seamless rounds.

They are cooked on a dry griddle and eaten with, of course, more Cretan thyme honey.

This famous pie from the rugged southern town of Sfakia is a great favorite.

A ball of tender dough is filled with a ball of myzithra or pichtogalo, then rolled into a thin and seamless disk.

The pie is cooked on a dry griddle until blistery, then served hot with honey.