Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro Eggplants with onions and tomatoes taste great. We smoke the eggplants on a burner before sauteeing them. This gives the dish a smoky flavour.

Ingredients of Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro

  1. Prepare 6-8 of country style filo sheets (either store bought or homemade).
  2. You need 1 cup of olive oil.
  3. You need 4 of eggplants.
  4. It's 400 g of crumbled anthotyro (traditional Greek fresh cheese).
  5. You need 260 g of grated kefalotyri (traditional Greek hard salted yellow cheese).
  6. You need 4 of onions.
  7. You need 3 cloves of garlic.
  8. You need 3 of tomatoes, ripe and firm without their skin and seeds, finely chopped.
  9. You need 3 tbsp of finely choppd basil.
  10. You need 2 of sun-dried tomatoes, finely chopped.
  11. It's of salt.
  12. It's of freshly ground pepper.

Eggplant pie with onions and anthotyro step by step

  1. 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..
  2. 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..
  3. 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..
  4. Then, add half of the kefalotyri and the anthotyro and mix softly..
  5. 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..
  6. 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..
  7. Bake the eggplant pie at 200°C until golden brown..

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. 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.

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