These mini olive breads are made with Greek yoghurt in the dough and green olives, with lots of herbs in the dough, which makes them delicious, healthy and very aromatic, perfect for breakfast or as a snack.
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Tsoureki flower is a type of Greek style sweet brioche bread made during Easter but shaped into a flower.
These mini pizza bread rolls are made with pizza dough and are filled with leftover bolognaise sauce and feta. They can also be made into sweet rolls.
Green Olives and Feta Pull-aparts are small breads filled with feta and olives. They are placed close to each other and when baked they can be pulled and separated easily.
There’s nothing more satisfying than eating your own bread. To make this Cypriot bread, you need to use a ‘starter’ mixture that takes the place of yeast.
This braided Savory cheese tsoureki is made with tsoureki dough and a filling made with cheese, eggs and mint.
Glystarkes or glistarkes or gyristarkes, from the Greek verb γυρίζω = turn, is a kind of Cypriot grid-like crusty, sesame rusk.
Tiganopsomo, which means fried bread is very easy to make. All you need is any kind of yeasted bread dough, which is fried in olive oil. Some times it is filled with cheese, such as feta or any other hard Greek cheese but when it is not filled, it can turn into a dessert by sprinkling some honey or icing sugar and cinnamon on top.
Halloumi-graviera pull-aparts are individual filled bread placed next to each other and baked so that when baked they join into one large bread which can easily be separated by pulling each piece.
My friend Aparna, of My Diverse Kitchen is hosting the Bread Baking Day #12- Small breads. What Aparna wants from usis to make anything like buns, rolls, biscuits, bagels, waffles, beignets, doughnuts, croissants, bread sticks, pretzels, etc. and we can make them sweet or savory, plain or stuffed, or add fruit/ vegetable/ nuts/ seeds/ herbs/ …