Eggplant pie by Roula

Name: Eggplant pie by Roula
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 5 eggplants; 1/4 cup olive oil; 4 large onions coarsely cut; 1/2 cup trahana (traditional coarse dried mixture of grain and dairy); 1 cup crumbled feta cheese; 2 eggs, beaten; 10 filo pastry sheets (store-bought or homemade)

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Roula is the neighbour that we all would love to haveevery time she cooks the whole place just smells great and also, she brings me a portion! I have a lot of her recipes but this eggplant pie (melitzanopita) is the one that I love the most because it makes a very tasty and sweet pie.

Recipe by lixoudia

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Recipe by lixoudia

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Ingredients

5eggplants
1/4 cupolive oil
4large onions coarsely cut
1/2 cuptrahana (traditional coarse dried mixture of grain and dairy)
1 cupcrumbled feta cheese
2eggs, beaten
10filo pastry sheets (store-bought or homemade)

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Steps

1

Wash the eggplants and cut them into cubes the size of croutons. Boil them for 10 minutes in a pot of water.
2

As soon as they are tender strain them well pressing them into a strainer so that all the excess liquids are discarded.
3

Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and sauté the onion with the eggplants for 5 minutes until they brown.
4

Add 1/2 cup water and the trahana and boil for 5 minutes over low heat with the lid on until all the liquids are absorbed and the trahana is not firm to the bite.
5

As soon as the mixture cools mix in the eggs and the feta cheese. Season with salt and pepper according to how salty the feta cheese is.
6

Layer the pie as following3 filo sheets - filling - 2 filo sheets - filling - 2 filo sheets - filling - 3 fillo sheets.
7

Bake at 180°C for about an hour.