Cheese-filled pies - fatayer bi jibneh.
You can have Cheese-filled pies - fatayer bi jibneh using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Cheese-filled pies - fatayer bi jibneh
- You need 2 cups of flour.
- It's 1 teaspoon of dried yeast dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water.
- It's 1 of egg, whipped.
- Prepare 1 of potato, boiled, peeled and mashed.
- You need 1/2 cup of warm water.
- Prepare 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
- It's 1 of egg white.
- You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
- You need of For the filling:.
- It's 250 g of feta cheese.
- You need 1/4 cup of fresh parsley, finely chopped.
- Prepare 1/2 of onion, finely chopped.
Cheese-filled pies - fatayer bi jibneh instructions
- Mix the flour, whipped egg, water, yeast and mashed potato with an electric mixer until you get a firm, smooth dough. You can add more warm water if needed. Leave the dough to rest in a warm place..
- To prepare the filling: crumble the feta cheese with a fork and combine it with the parsley and onion in a bowl..
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough using a rolling pin. Cut the dough into 8 cm diameter circles using a circular pastry cutter..
- Coat the border of the dough circles with a bit of egg white, and top each circle with 1 tablespoon of the cheese mixture then seal firmly its 4 edges to form a square that holds the cheese. The cheese should remain visible in the middle..
- Place the cheese pies on lightly greased oven pans and bake at medium heat until they turn lightly brown..
- Serve hot or cold..