Anthotyro
After Easter I’ve started watching my weight again and have been going to the gym everyday. A few days ago when we went to the supermarket I found myself putting some low fat products in the cart, such as Dirollo cream cheese with 3% fat, which is similar to Philadelphia, myzithra also called anthotyro or [...]
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Kaltsounia or Kalitsounia, is probably the most known Cretan recipe. Remember my post on Calzone where I mentioned the connection of the two names? Kaltsounia can be either with a sweet or savory filling and the pastry shell differs in each case. Savory Kaltsounia use a pastry phyllo in which they add raki and for [...]
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Fresh anthotyros is often called the Greek cream cheese because of its texture and taste, although it is more granular in texture than regular cream cheese. It is traditionally used as a table or dessert cheese and as an ingredient in stuffed pies (pitas). It goes well with fruits such as figs, pears, and apples. [...]
Inspired by Cypriot Bourekia, which are made with homemade phyllo, anari (whey cheese similar to ricotta), cinnamon and orange blossom water, I made these easy, cheesy, beautiful desserts with store bough phyllo. They were easy to make and tasted wonderful. I put the cream cheese and anthotyro in the mixer bowl and mixed them together [...]
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I have talked about petimezi in a previous post but for those of you who are reading this for the first time petimezi is a syrup made of grape juice and is used as a sweetener. One of its uses in Greece is to make moustokouloura (must cookies). We usually make these cookies with petimezi [...]
Dakos or ntakos is the name of a Cretan barley rusk. A salad made with this rusk has the same name and is made with cheese and tomato on top. The rusk is also called krithrokoulouro or Koukouvagia (owl) in Crete, but to be frank I don’t know why they are so called. Probably because [...]
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Anari is a Cypriot soft cheese and this easy dessert is a sort of Cypriot cheesecake. It is very refreshing and very tasteful. Ingredients: 2 packets of sfogliatine biscuits 1 kilo of unsalted anari cheese 1 cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon ½ cup of orange blossom water Whipping cream 1 heavy cream [...]
Bourekia is a pastry made with a thin flaky phyllo, and are filled with anari which is the name for anthotyro in Cyprus. Anari is similar to anthotyro or myzithra and is a white soft whey cheese which is produced when making halloumi or kefalotyri. (You may find out more about these cheeses here). [...]
Continue reading about Bourekia me Freskia Anari – Pastries with Fresh Anari Cheese
Anthotyros (from the words anthos meaning flower and tyros meaning cheese), myzithra or anari, which is the Cypriot equivalent, are traditional cheeses which are manufactured from ewe’s milk – and/or goat-milk whey. After making hard cheeses such as kefalotyri, graviera, halloumi etc., goat or sheep’s milk is added respectively to the whey and these cheeses [...]
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