Recipe of Ultimate Melitinia

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, melitinia. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Melitinia is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Melitinia is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Deriving from the ancient Greek word melitero, meaning 'sweet as honey', the melitinia are delicious tartlets of sweet cheese - similar to the Cretan kaltsounia, although Santorini's version is more delicate and refined. Melitinia, Sweet Cheese Tartlets from Santorini Throughout the Aegean, there are many traditional sweet cheese tartlets. Inded, these simple pies hearken back to the cheesecakes of antiquity, mentioned so often in many ancient texts. They're great as an Easter treat, but also make a wonderful breakfast or snack on the go.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have melitinia using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Melitinia:

1. Prepare For the filling
2. Prepare 2 kg unsalted mitzithra (you can also use Cretan anthotyro)
3. Make ready 2 kg sugar
4. Make ready 5 mastic grains
5. Prepare 3 eggs
6. Get 1/4 self raising flour
7. Make ready For the pastry
8. Take 1 kg all purpose flour
9. Make ready 3 tbsp margarine
10. Get 1 little bit of salt
11. Get warm water as much as it takes to roll out the dough

For the dough: Place the flour in the blender bin after sifting, add the butter and stir with the hook. Add the liquids slowly, cinnamon, powdered sugar and salt and mix until the dough becomes soft and supple. Using a little bit of sugar, powder the mastic grains in a food processor or use a mortar and pestle. Combine all the ingredients for the filling and let them stand.

Instructions to make Melitinia:

1. Using a little bit of sugar, powder the mastic grains in a food processor or use a mortar and pestle.
2. Combine all the ingredients for the filling and let them stand.
3. Knead the pastry making sure that the margarine is well incorporated into the flour.
4. Roll out the dough, relatively thin (but not too much because it has to hold the filling).
5. Cut the pastry into round pieces of about 8cm diameter.
6. Place a spoonful of the filling in the center of each round piece and pinch the edges so that you make a small tartlet with "pleats" (look at the notes).
7. Place them in a baking tray and in the oven at 175 degrees, only with the bottom radiant element on for 20 minutes and then on both radiant elements for 10-20 minutes until they brown.

Using a little bit of sugar, powder the mastic grains in a food processor or use a mortar and pestle. Combine all the ingredients for the filling and let them stand. Knead the pastry making sure that the margarine is well incorporated into the flour. Roll out the dough, relatively thin (but not too much because it has to hold the filling). "A Sweet Greek Crisis Story Made in Santorini!" A former banker, Pantelis, and his childhood friend Takis left behind their lives in Athens and moved to Santorini to open the first traditional tapas restaurant that serves only Greek products at the picturesque village of Oia. Traditional melitinia are made from a delicate dough with a soft center made of unsalted cheese.

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