Zucchini (courgettes) close pie. Inexpensive french zucchini pie to impress your dinner guests and make your kids love veggies. Zucchini and courgette are different from each although they pertain to the same vegetable family that is Overall, courgettes are smaller and younger whereas zucchinis are older and bigger in size. My local greengrocer is selling,after close inspection and comparason by myself the same veggie under.
It does not take long to make and is a crowd-pleaser. Lovely, Greek Inspired Courgette Pie- which in Greece is called Kolokithopita. In this pie I also added a bit of vegan 'Greek style' cheese.
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Inexpensive french zucchini pie to impress your dinner guests and make your kids love veggies. Zucchini and courgette are different from each although they pertain to the same vegetable family that is Overall, courgettes are smaller and younger whereas zucchinis are older and bigger in size. My local greengrocer is selling,after close inspection and comparason by myself the same veggie under.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook zucchini (courgettes) close pie using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Zucchini (courgettes) close pie:
- {Get 700 grams of zucchini (grated).
- {Take 2 large of carrots (peeled and grated).
- {Make ready 1/2 bunch of fresh spring onions (finely chopped).
- {Get 1/2 bunch of dill (finely chopped).
- {Get 1/2 bunch of parsley (finely chopped).
- {Get 1/2 of onion (grated).
- {Prepare 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
- {Get 2 of eggs (lightly whisked).
- {Take 400 grams of feta cheese.
- {Make ready 1 of salt.
- {Prepare 1 of black pepper.
- {Take 6 of filo pastry sheets.
I bought a block at the supermarket and I can't say I was massively impressed by it, however it did work well cooked up in the pie, adding a level of saltiness. A vegetable filo pie made with summer vegetables, rice and goat cheese. A light meal presented in a lovely and composed pie. I had the finished pie sitting on the kitchen counter and my husband mistakenly thought this was a quiche.
Steps to make Zucchini (courgettes) close pie:
- Preheat oven to 180oC..
- Lightly salt grated zucchini and leave in a colander to drain their juices for 15 minutes. In the meantime, brush a 25cm x 25cm baking tray with some of the extra virgin olive oil..
- Heat some of the olive oil in a pan but keep some aside for brushing the filo pastry sheets. Cook the grated onion and the finely chopped spring onions until transparent. Add the drained zucchini and grated carrots and cook for 3 minutes, until this mix looks slightly dry..
- Leave aside this mix and let it cool for a while. Then add in the cooled mix, the whisked eggs, crumbled feta cheese, finely chopped parsley and dill, salt and pepper. Mix well until a homogeneous filling results..
- Place the first three filo pastry sheets, each brushed with olive oil, concurrently on the baking tray. Then add the filling. Top the filling with the rest of filo pastries as earlier. Any excess of the filo pastry sheets should be pulled bownwards on the sides of the baking tray..
- Pierce the top of filo pastry sheets with a fork and curve with a knife 9 equal squares. Bake for one hour..
A super simple fried zucchini recipe for the lovers of the authentic Greek cuisine! Fried zucchini (Tiganita Greek kolokithakia) is a favourite Greek To achieve crispier results make sure you cut the zucchini in thin slices. If your courgettes are large and thick, cut them in slices, but if they are small. Place the zucchini slices in concentric circles on the bottom of the pan. Break the goat cheese into small pieces and distribute evenly over the vegetables.
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