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Greek Cheese-Chile Pastries
Greek Cheese-Chile Pastries
- Recipe Submitted by ADMIN on 09/26/2007
Category: Appetizers
Ingredients List
- Melted; unsalted butter
- 2 Eggs
- 1 lb Small curd cottage cheese
- 1 lb Feta cheese; crumbled
- 1/4 c Chopped parsley
- 1 pn Salt
- 8 -(up to)
- 12 oz Filo pastry (strudel
- -leaves); thawed if frozen
- 1/2 c Parched; peeled, seeded,
- -chopped fresh New Mexico
- -hot green chiles
- -or-
- 1/2 c Canned diced green chiles
- (see "Parched Peppers"
- -recipe)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Brush baking sheets with melted butter. Beat eggs,
cheeses, parsley and salt together until well blended. Stack 2 pastry
sheets; cut stacked sheets lengthwise in 3-inch-wide strips. Brush each
2-layer strip with melted butter on both sides, then place a spoonful of
cheese filling at 1 end of each strip. Top with a few pieces of chile. Fold
1 corner of strip over filling to create a triangular end; then fold
triangle over on itself. Continue to fold triangle from side to side until
you reach end of pastry strip; you should have a triangle-shaped pastry.
Pierce top of pastry with a wooded toothpick and place on buttered baking
sheet. Continue making pastries to use remaining filo sheets, cheese
filling and chiles. Bake 30-40 minutes or until golden and flaky. Makes
about 4 dozen pastries.
cheeses, parsley and salt together until well blended. Stack 2 pastry
sheets; cut stacked sheets lengthwise in 3-inch-wide strips. Brush each
2-layer strip with melted butter on both sides, then place a spoonful of
cheese filling at 1 end of each strip. Top with a few pieces of chile. Fold
1 corner of strip over filling to create a triangular end; then fold
triangle over on itself. Continue to fold triangle from side to side until
you reach end of pastry strip; you should have a triangle-shaped pastry.
Pierce top of pastry with a wooded toothpick and place on buttered baking
sheet. Continue making pastries to use remaining filo sheets, cheese
filling and chiles. Bake 30-40 minutes or until golden and flaky. Makes
about 4 dozen pastries.
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