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Phyllo cheese pie with three cheeses for Meatless Monday

Phyllo cheese pie with three cheeses for Meatless Monday

Posted on
April 1, 2012
by zirkie

We do not always have a meat free Monday, but we have a meatless day at least one day in a week and we became accustomed to this. 

My son does not eat vegetables. The only vegetables that he will eat are potatoes and cucumbers. This makes it very difficult to cook a meatless dish and I must be very creative, otherwise he will eat leftovers from the previous day or a sandwich. 

Luckily he loves pestos and cheese and eggs! If I really don’t know what to cook for him, I can make a pot of pasta and mix it with a pesto or sometimes I make an omelette. 

He loved these cheese pies and I will be making it again. 

I made the cheese pies at night so I could unfortunately only take pictures the following day. The pies did not look so crispy on the following day, but believe me it was delicious eaten straight after it was baked.

Cheese Pie

Ingredients:

6 sheets of phyllo pastry

120g melted butter

For the filling:

30g butter

1 onion chopped

2 bulbs of garlic minced

400g grated Gouda cheese

200g feta, crumbled

225g smooth full cream Cottage cheese

2 eggs beaten

10ml cayenne pepper

10ml lemon pepper

salt

sesame seeds

Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.

Butter an oven tray.

Melt the butter in a pot and sauté the onions until cooked. Add the garlic and sauté for another minute.

Remove from heat and add the cheeses, eggs, cayenne pepper and lemon pepper. Season with salt and mix well.

Place one sheet of pastry on a damp cloth and brush with butter. Layer another sheet of phyllo pastry on top and brush with butter again. Place a third layer of phyllo on top. Cut the layered pastry sheets into six rectangular pieces of equal size.

Put some of the filling onto each rectangular and roll up.

Place onto the baking sheet. Brush the top liberally with butter and sprinkle with some sesame seeds.

Repeat with the remaining 3 sheets of phyllo pastry.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Serve hot or cold with a salad on the side. It also goes well as a side dish with meat.

Phyllo cheese pie

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12 Responses

  1. thehappyhugger April 1, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    That looks like a really tasty dish Pinky.
    *hugs*

    Reply
  2. adinparadise April 1, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    That looks wonderful, PPD. I had a daughter who wouldn’t eat vegetables. She did grow out of that phase, thank goodness. 😉 xxx

    Reply
  3. Betty Bake (@BettyBakeBlog) April 1, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    thanks for the visit and comment 🙂
    I like your cupcake header for your blog – very nice 🙂

    have a great evening – Betty Bake

    Reply
  4. thecompletecookbook April 2, 2012 at 9:09 am

    What a delicious cheese pie! I love phyllo pastry.
    🙂 Mandy

    Reply
  5. Tandy April 2, 2012 at 9:41 am

    what a clever idea for a meat free recipe! We don’t eat potatoes anymore, or pasta which is a challenge 🙂

    Reply
  6. Karen April 2, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    Your cheese pie sounds delicious. I love the mixture of cheeses you used.

    Reply
  7. SidevieW April 3, 2012 at 4:04 am

    It sounds very nice, if a little rich.

    Reply
  8. 68ghia April 4, 2012 at 11:02 am

    Very yommy indeed!!
    I suppose you could put a bit of meat inside the little pastries?
    Make it a full meal instead of a side?
    What do I know of that – the closest I’ll ever come to phyllo will be to make baklava 😉
    Or just eating it 😉

    Reply
  9. Gobetween April 6, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Sounds devine!

    Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood April 10, 2012 at 10:24 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
    • pinkpolkadotfood April 10, 2012 at 10:25 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply

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