Greek Cheese Pie With Phyllo And Feta Cheese

A delicious Greek cheese pie with feta and phyllo. Extra crispy, topped with sesame seeds, and filled with a creamy Bechamel filling.

📝 Ingredients

• 50 grams (3 loaded tablespoons) butter
• 40 grams (4 tablespoons) all-purpose flour
• 300 ml milk (lukewarm to warm)
• 2 egg yolks
• 300 grams (10.5 ounce) feta cheese (crumbled)
• pinch nutmeg
• freshly ground pepper
• 8 sheets of phyllo pastry
• 120 grams (4.2 ounces) butter (melted)
• sesame seeds (to sprinkle on top)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- Prepare the filling: ---
2. 2Melt butter in a small cooking pot or saucepan over moderate heat.
3. 3Add flour and cook stirring constantly for 2 minutes until it starts to smell nutty but without letting it darken in colour.
4. 4Pour in the milk and stir until a thick cream forms.
5. 5Add the feta cheese and cook stirring constantly over medium-low heat, until feta melts as much as possible. Remove from the heat.
6. 6Stand cream for 10 minutes.
7. 7Stir in the nutmeg, pepper, and egg yolks.
8. 8--- Make the Tiropita: ---
9. 9Preheat oven to 175°C/350°F.
10. 10Brush a round 25 cm (10-inch) pan with melted butter.
11. 11Add 6 phyllo sheets to the pan, one on top of the other, covering all sides of the pan, and brushing each one with melted butter. Half of each phyllo sheet should be hanging out of the pan.
12. 12Add the filling and spread evenly with a spoon.
13. 13Overlap the phyllo that hangs out of the pan over the filling, again brushing each phyllo with melted butter.
14. 14Add another phyllo on top, ruffle it to fit inside the pan, and brush with butter. Repeat the process for the last phyllo.
15. 15Scar the pie and divide it into 6 pieces. Try not to cut all the way down to the bottom phyllo.
16. 16Sprinkle with sesame seeds on top.
17. 17Bake for about 50 minutes or until honey-golden on top and very crispy.
18. 18Let the pie stand for 10 minutes then cut and serve!