Cooking recipes: Gizleme of Mytilene – The dessert of the Triodion

The traditional dessert of Mytilene for Halloween. The salty taste of the dry cottage cheese with the sweet taste of grape syrup makes the perfect combination of sweet and salty. We can dip into molasses (boiled), honey or syrup.

Άννα Καταχανά Katahana
by Anna Katachana

Ingredients for the filo (4 sheets):

½ kilo flour for all uses

½ teaspoon sugar

½ teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

And water as much as needed.

 

Ingredients for the mixture:

 

1 dry mizithra cheese

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 teaspoons sugar

 

How to prepare

Divide the dough into 4 balls with which we will open 4 sheets (fila).

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 1Roll out the dough into a thin sheet and sprinkle a little flour to prevent sticking to the rolling pin.

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 2Pour on our sheet a little bit of oil and then ¼ of the mixture all over the sheet evenly.

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 3Pour a little oil over this mixture and wrap it carefully.

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 4We cut our roll into pieces and place in a greased pan. Pour a little oil over the pieces.

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 5Repeat all of the above steps for the other three pieces of our dough.

When we fill the pan with oiled pieces, we put them in preheated oven at 180 oC, for about 45 minutes or until they have a red color.

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 6Pour on the pieces, molasses, honey or syrup.

Γκιζλεμέ Μυτιλήνης 7

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