Tiropitakia kourou are Greek shortbread cheese pies hailing from Greece’s northern region of Macedonia. The pastry is enhanced with yoghurt - giving it a slight tart or tangy flavour.
Want to know how to make them?
Let’s dive right in.
🥘 Ingredients
To make tiropitakia kourou, you’re going to need the following ingredients
For the Dough:
- 3 cups of sifted plain flour
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ cup butter, melted
- ½ a cup Greek yogurt
- 1 egg yolk
For The Filling:
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- 250 grams of crumbled feta cheese or goats cheese
- 1 cup of grated kasseri cheese or Gruyere cheese
- 3 tbsps of single cream
Looking at the ingredients, we can see there is quite a bit of fat from the olive oil, butter and yoghurt.
Don’t be afraid of the fat here! It gives these shortbread cheese pies their delicious biscuit-like texture and crumb.
🔪 Instructions
- To make the pastry place all the ingredients in a food processor until the mixture forms a ball. Cover in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
- Once the dough has rested, remove it from the refrigerator and roll it out to about 3 mm thick and cut out rounds using a 12cm cookie cutter.
- Lightly mix the filling ingredients in another bowl and proceed to place 1 tbsp of filling in each round.
- Fold each round in half and seal the edges with a fork to achieve a nice crimped edge.
- Place the pies onto a baking tray, brush with egg wash and place in a preheated 180 deg C oven for about 25-30 mins (depending on how your oven works!)
💭 Top tip
If you find the pastry breaks while rolling it - don’t stress. Just use an off cut to patch it up. These tiropitakia kourou are quite forgiving.
📖 Variations
If you’re interested, I have a few recipes on the site for Greek pies.
Try my traditional tiropitakia using store-bought filo pastry. These are much quicker to bake.
My homemade spanakopita is a real winner - full instructions included by my mother.
📋 Recipe
Tiropitakia Kourou
Ingredients
For the Dough:
- 3 cups plain flour, sifted
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ cup butter, melted
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
- 1 egg yolk
For The Filling:
- 2 eggs , lightly beaten
- 250 grams feta cheese , crumbled, can substitute with goats cheese
- 1 cup kasseri cheese, or Gruyere cheese
- 3 tbsps single cream
Instructions
- To make the pastry place all the ingredients in a food processor until the mixture forms a ball. Cover in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
- Once the dough has rested, remove it from the refrigerator and roll it out to about 3 mm thick and cut out rounds using a 12cm cookie cutter.
- Lightly mix the filling ingredients in another bowl and proceed to place 1 tbsp of filling in each round.
- Fold each round in half and seal the edges with a fork to achieve a nice crimped edge.
- Place the pies onto a baking tray, brush with egg wash and place in a preheated 180 deg C oven for about 25-30 mins (depending on how your oven works!)
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