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Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, kreatotourta (meat pie) from chania. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Be the first to review this recipe. Cretan Meat Pie Kreatotourta from Food.com: This traditional Cretan recipe is one of our favorite Greek dishes. I had this many times in restaurant and wanted to reproduce this at home.

Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have kreatotourta (meat pie) from chania using 28 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania:

1. Take For the leaven
2. Take 2 packets dry yeast
3. Get 1 bit of flour
4. Prepare 1 bit of lukewarm water
5. Get For the dough
6. Get 150 g butter
7. Prepare 250 g strained yogurt
8. Take 2 packets yeast
9. Take 2 eggs
10. Make ready 1 tbsp salt
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp pepper
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
13. Take leaven
14. Get 2 tbsp meat stock
15. Get 1 kg to 1 1/2 kg all purpose flour
16. Prepare For the top
17. Prepare 1 egg
18. Take sesame seeds
19. Take For the filling
20. Prepare 1 1/2 kg lamp, preferably brisket
21. Get 1 kg staka (traditional Cretan roux), cooked, without its butter
22. Make ready 1 kg to 1 1/2 kg sweet mizithra
23. Take 500 gr - 750 g tyromalama ("malaka" is the traditional name of the Cretan cheese) or graviera
24. Prepare spearmint
25. Prepare salt
26. Make ready pepper
27. Get cinnamon
28. Get 2 tbsp meat stock

Roll out another pastry sheet and cover the pie. I am french canadian and meat pie has been a family tradition for years made by my Memere's but is a long lost art as we have americanized our traditions. I made it this thanksgiving with the help of my Aunt and she says leave out the cinnamon but use more allspice in it's place do not add water and add the. A delicious Greek meat pie, kreatopita is a flavorful meat mixture wrapped din phyllo.

Instructions to make Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania:

1. Start the preparation from the previous day.
2. Boil the meat and when it cools, remove the fat and bones and cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper and cinnamon, as much as you like and put it in the fridge.
3. Keep one bowl of strained meat stock, for the dough and the filling.
4. Prepare the staka, from which you remove the butter.
5. Prepare the leaven. Using a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water and add a bit of flour so that you have a batter. Mix until all the ingredients are well integrated and leave it overnight to rise. You can make the dough without leaven but this way it has a special flavor.
6. Prepare the dough, the following day.
7. Dissolve the leaven in a bit of warm water. Add the butter, warm, the yogurt, the meat stock, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Mix and add yeast and flour until you have a pliable dough.
8. Separate the dough into two parts, one slightly larger than the other. Take the large piece, roll it out so that it fits your baking tray and place it in the buttered baking tray so that it also covers the sides.
9. Add the filling. Spread half of the mizithra, staka and tyromalama, add finely chopped spearmint, pepper and cinnamon, layer the meat and in the same order, the rest of the cheeses. Add finely chopped spearmint, pepper and cinnamon once more. Pour 2-3 spoonfuls of meat stock in the filling so that it doesn't dry up.
10. Roll out the rest of the dough, cover the filling and seal both the bottom and top dough together, braiding them.
11. Take care that the dough doesn't stretch or has any cracks.
12. Cover the baking tray and place it in a hot place for at least  ½  an hour so that it rises.
13. Before you bake, brush with the egg and sprinkle freely with sesame seeds.
14. Bake at  200°C for  ½  at the bottom rack and for another hour at the second from last.

This tasty Greek meat pie, which is called kreatopita (κρεατοπιτα), is a perfect example of the versatility of phyllo. From baklava to this, it's can just do so much and taste just as delicious. My husband and I love love love it. I should have taken a picture of the inside of the meat pie but I didnt. I would appreciate anyone that might be able.

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