Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania
Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania

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Start the preparation from the previous day. Boil the meat and when it cools, remove the fat and bones and cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper and cinnamon, as much as you like and put it in the fridge. In a large bowl, mix the cheeses, meat, mint, stock and pepper.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kreatotourta (meat pie) from chania using 28 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania:
  1. Get For the leaven
  2. Get 2 packets dry yeast
  3. Get 1 bit of flour
  4. Make ready 1 bit of lukewarm water
  5. Make ready For the dough
  6. Prepare 150 g butter
  7. Take 250 g strained yogurt
  8. Take 2 packets yeast
  9. Get 2 eggs
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp pepper
  12. Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  13. Make ready leaven
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp meat stock
  15. Get 1 kg to 1 1/2 kg all purpose flour
  16. Make ready For the top
  17. Make ready 1 egg
  18. Prepare sesame seeds
  19. Make ready For the filling
  20. Prepare 1 1/2 kg lamp, preferably brisket
  21. Take 1 kg staka (traditional Cretan roux), cooked, without its butter
  22. Make ready 1 kg to 1 1/2 kg sweet mizithra
  23. Prepare 500 gr - 750 g tyromalama ("malaka" is the traditional name of the Cretan cheese) or graviera
  24. Prepare spearmint
  25. Get salt
  26. Take pepper
  27. Make ready cinnamon
  28. Take 2 tbsp meat stock

An Eat Your Books index lists the main ingredients and does not include 'store-cupboard ingredients' (salt, pepper, oil, flour, etc.) - unless called for in significant quantity. Brush the pie with the beaten egg and sprinkle sesame seed all over it. These savory meat rolls are prepared and assembled much like cinnamon rolls — biscuit dough is rolled into a rectangular shape and. I had this many times in a restaurant and wanted to reproduce this at home.

Steps to make Kreatotourta (meat pie) from Chania:
  1. Start the preparation from the previous day.
  2. Boil the meat and when it cools, remove the fat and bones and cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper and cinnamon, as much as you like and put it in the fridge.
  3. Keep one bowl of strained meat stock, for the dough and the filling.
  4. Prepare the staka, from which you remove the butter.
  5. Prepare the leaven. Using a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water and add a bit of flour so that you have a batter. Mix until all the ingredients are well integrated and leave it overnight to rise. You can make the dough without leaven but this way it has a special flavor.
  6. Prepare the dough, the following day.
  7. Dissolve the leaven in a bit of warm water. Add the butter, warm, the yogurt, the meat stock, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Mix and add yeast and flour until you have a pliable dough.
  8. Separate the dough into two parts, one slightly larger than the other. Take the large piece, roll it out so that it fits your baking tray and place it in the buttered baking tray so that it also covers the sides.
  9. Add the filling. Spread half of the mizithra, staka and tyromalama, add finely chopped spearmint, pepper and cinnamon, layer the meat and in the same order, the rest of the cheeses. Add finely chopped spearmint, pepper and cinnamon once more. Pour 2-3 spoonfuls of meat stock in the filling so that it doesn't dry up.
  10. Roll out the rest of the dough, cover the filling and seal both the bottom and top dough together, braiding them.
  11. Take care that the dough doesn't stretch or has any cracks.
  12. Cover the baking tray and place it in a hot place for at least  ½  an hour so that it rises.
  13. Before you bake, brush with the egg and sprinkle freely with sesame seeds.
  14. Bake at  200°C for  ½  at the bottom rack and for another hour at the second from last.

These savory meat rolls are prepared and assembled much like cinnamon rolls — biscuit dough is rolled into a rectangular shape and. I had this many times in a restaurant and wanted to reproduce this at home. Traditionally, this pie is made with three types of Cretan cheese as well, so the mixture will be a savory blend of meat and cheese packed in a thin crust, baked to perfection to achieve the right level of crispiness. I had this many times in a restaurant and wanted to reproduce this at home. I had this many times in a restaurant and wanted to reproduce this at home.

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