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Here's how to make a delicious vegan Greek pie with eggplants called Melitzanopita. The original Melitzanopita recipe is made with phyllo dough, eggplant, peppers and anthotyros cheese, a Greek cheese made of unpasteurized sheep's and goat's milk or a mix between these two. Add the onions and eggplant and sauté for a minute or two.
Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro:
- Make ready 6-8 country style filo sheets (either store bought or homemade)
- Make ready 1 cup olive oil
- Prepare 4 eggplants
- Prepare 400 g crumbled anthotyro (traditional Greek fresh cheese)
- Prepare 260 g grated kefalotyri (traditional Greek hard salted yellow cheese)
- Get 4 onions
- Get 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 3 tomatoes, ripe and firm without their skin and seeds, finely chopped
- Make ready 3 tbsp finely choppd basil
- Take 2 sun-dried tomatoes, finely chopped
- Take salt
- Make ready freshly ground pepper
The classic eggplant has an oversized pear-shape and a deep purple flesh, but home gardeners can find seeds for a wide variety of different. Crumble the anthotyro and add half of it on top of the ground meat. Apply the second layer of lasagna. Ladle in remaining sauce as well as remaining Therefore anthotyros "blossom cheese" is named for the way the curds blossom as they are stirred to make other cheese.
Instructions to make Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro:
- Wash the eggplants and cut them into cubes. Place them in a strainer, season with plenty of salt and set them aside for 20' to lose their bitternes. Wash and dry well.
- Cut the onions into round slices and finely chop the garlic. Heat 2/3 of the oil and sauté the onions with the eggplants until they are tender.
- Add the garlic and continue to sauté for 2-3΄. Add the tomatoes and boil until all the liquids are absorbed. Remove from heat and add the basil and the sun-dried tomatoes. Set aside to cool.
- Then, add half of the kefalotyri and the anthotyro and mix softly.
- Line a large baking tray brushed with oil with 3-4 filo sheets, brushing a little oil between them and sprinkling with a little kefalotyri. Spread the filling.
- Cover with the remaining filo sheets, once more brushing them with oil and sprinkling with kefalotyri. Bring the excess edges of the filo sheets together, forming a decorative ring around the pie.
- Bake the eggplant pie at 200°C until golden brown.
When planting eggplant, choose a sunny location with loamy, well-drained fertile soil. Eggplant isn't too picky, and will manage to grow in most garden conditions as long as the days are warm with plenty of sunshine. Eggplant grows at Snug Harbor Heritage Farm on Staten Island. A rustic baked eggplant dish with caramelized onions from Central Greece. Get a crusty fresh loaf of bread to dip in the juices.
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