Homemade pies

Homemade pies are the most traditional dish in every corner of Greece. With several shapes and names, they are found in many variations on the filo dough, the ingredients and the baking method throughout the country.

Traditionally, homemade pies gave Greek housewives the freedom to provide a variety of food for the daily and festive table for the whole family.
With skill and imagination, every pie was an easy-to-make dish without many ingredients that people could carry and consume at the field, at work, or while travelling. It was also the food for a celebration, the food that united people around the table, just as the pie embraces its ingredients.

For years now, Chryssi Zymi has been at the side of every Greek family, with ready-to-bake products for casual and festive dinners. Rich with the taste of tradition, yet so fresh, quick and nutritious as modern life requires, Chryssi Zymi offers ideas for delicious homemade pies, with a creative selection that have their roots in traditional recipes, blending different ingredients in 6 original, unique combinations:

– Homemade Cheese pie with kasseri and kefalograviera from Epirus
– Homemade Cheese pie with feta and katiki Domokou
– Homemade pie with spinach, endive, leek & spring onion – appropriate for lent
– Homemade pie with spinach, mizithra cheese, endive & leek
– Homemade pie with whole grain wheat flour, with mizithra, yoghurt and feta cheese
–Homemade pie with whole grain wheat flour, with spinach, yoghurt and crithmum

When the delicious homemade filo dough by Chryssi Zymi embraces the flavours of a traditional recipe with the purest ingredients, the Homemade Pies by Chryssi Zymi are born!

PRODUCTS

Homemade Pie With Traditional Κasseri Cheese & Epirus Gruyere Cheese

Homemade Cheese pie with feta and Domokos Katiki cheese

Σπιτική Χορτόπιτα Νηστίσιμη με σπανάκι, ραδίκια, πράσο και κρεμμυδάκι Χρυσή Ζύμη

Homemade Pie with spinach, endive, leek & spring onion – Vegan

Homemade Pie with spinach, mizithra cheese, endive & leek

dictionary

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Extra virgin olive oil is the kind of olive oil produced by natural and mechanical methods, the acidity of which, expressed in oleic acid, does not exceed 1g / 100g and has perfect aroma, taste, and high nutritional value. It is superior in quality compared to regular olive oil, which is created by mixing virgin olive oil and refined olive oil, making it organoleptically and physicochemically inferior.

Kefalograviera

A combination of the cheese types of Kefalotyri and Gruyere, from which its name is derived, Kefalograviera is a hard, ripened, PDO designated cheese, with a rich taste and aromas of sheep milk, while it is slightly to moderately salty. It is used as an ingredient in the filling of pies and tarts, sandwiches and in cheese platters for wine pairing.

Feta Cheese

Definitely the most widely used type of cheese in Greece, as the word “cheese” is synonymous to “feta” in daily life. White, soft or semi-hard PDO cheese with a rich taste and high nutritional value, the word “feta” describes that kind of white cheese that comes from specific areas of Greece and is made with milk from specific breeds of sheep and goats. It is an essential ingredient of the Greek salad (Horiatiki) and one of the main ingredients of the cheese pie, the spinach-cheese pie as well as many other Greek delicacies.

Katiki Domokou

White, creamy PDO cheese with low fat, made of pasteurized goat milk, originating in the area of Domokos, Fthiotida. It is found in sweet or savoury recipes but also as a spread.

tips

For a shiny, golden-brown pie crust, brush with whisked egg before baking.

If during baking, the pie crust edges get a darker colour, cover with baking paper to cook evenly.

To get your pie top and bottom equally crispy, switch to your oven’s bottom heat element for 5’ before taking it out.