Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, zucchini (courgettes) close pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Whether you have a bounty of zucchini from your garden or you pick up a few from the supermarket, this savory pie is a winner! This traditional Greek recipe combines zucchini with feta cheese and herbs nestled in phyllo for the perfect snack, lunch or dinner! Pites like this Greek zucchini pie, are what Greeks call their pies that are made with vegetables or cheese surrounded by layers of phyllo.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Prepare 700 grams zucchini (grated)
- Take 2 large carrots (peeled and grated)
- Make ready 1/2 bunch fresh spring onions (finely chopped)
- Make ready 1/2 bunch dill (finely chopped)
- Take 1/2 bunch parsley (finely chopped)
- Take 1/2 onion (grated)
- Prepare 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 2 eggs (lightly whisked)
- Prepare 400 grams feta cheese
- Make ready 1 salt
- Prepare 1 black pepper
- Make ready 6 filo pastry sheets
However, in gastronomic terms, it is a vegetable from the Cucurbitaceae family, which is the squash family. This vegetable has been a part of the diet around the world for many centuries. Wurstel and zucchini savoury pie, baked puff. Photo "Zucchini and courgette close up." can be used for personal and commercial purposes according to the conditions of the purchased Royalty-free license.
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.
Courgette and zucchini, the words are used interchangeably. But are they the same thing? Zucchini is the common term used in American English speaking countries, while courgette is the more common term among French and British English speaking people. This courgette recipe is another recipe from Heather who sent in the Tuna Impossible Pie recipe. It is another one pot recipe where you mix all the ingredients together Courgettes (or zucchini) are in season in late summer and yet they are available at quite a low price all year round in the supermarket. (Best months for growing Zucchini in Australia - temperate regions).
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