This galette des Rois (French Kings’ Cake), is made with store bought puff pastry and filled with almond paste and marzipan. However, you can use homemade puff pastry and any other filling you like.
Dough pastry
Homemade Tortellini is not only fun and easy to make in your own kitchen, but nothing compares to the taste and texture of fresh homemade pasta.
Bourekia me kima is a type of fried or baked pastry made with flaky homemade phyllo and filled with cooked minced meat.
Shiamishi, are one of the best panigyria treats in Cyprus. These are made with homemade phyllo filled with an aromatic sweet semolina cream, which is flavoured with anthonero (orange blossom water) and mastic and then deep fried.
Bourekia is a pastry made with a thin flaky phyllo, and are filled with anari which is the Cypriot name of the cheese, which is similar to anthotyros or ricotta. Anari is a white soft whey cheese which is produced when making halloumi or kefalotyri. It has a delicate, creamy flavour, slightly sweet, …
This homemade flaky butter phyllo is a simplified way of making dough similar to puff pastry, which makes it ideal for Greek Pites (pies).