Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, easter kalitsounia. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Easter kalitsounia is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Easter kalitsounia is something that I have loved my whole life.
Serve the kalitsounia as a delicious dessert with a drizzle of honey. 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).
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easter kalitsounia using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easter kalitsounia:
- Make ready Fof the filo pastry
- Prepare 1 kg all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 bit of salt
- Get 1/4 cup oil
- Get as much water as it takes
- Prepare 1 little bit of tsikoudia (raki), optionally
- Get For the filling
- Make ready 1 kg mizithra
- Get 250 g malaka (cretan soft fresh cheese)
- Take 1/4 anthotyro
- Make ready spearmint
- Make ready egg for brushing
- Get sesame seeds
They also prepare Easter cookies and 'tsourekia'.. "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. One of the most popular sweets in my island Crete. You can not come to Crete and not try kalitsounia.
Instructions to make Easter kalitsounia:
- Use a bowl to put all the liquids and then gradually add the flour.
- After making it, let it rest.
- 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.
- Continue by rolling out the filo and cutting it out into squares using a square tea plate and the speciall cutter.
- 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.
- Brush with the egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake at 200°C.
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. There's tsoureki to be plaited, eggs to be dyed, and lamb to be shared. Kalitsounia (aka Cretan Cheese - Cinnamon Pastries) is one of the most featured Easter dishes in Crete and especially in Chania. Easter Sunday arrives next day which calls for grand feasting and merrymaking.
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