Melitinia

Name: Melitinia
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 kg unsalted mitzithra (you can also use Cretan anthotyro); 2 kg sugar; 5 mastic grains; 3 eggs; 1/4 self raising flour; 1 kg all purpose flour; 3 tbsp margarine; 1 little bit of salt; warm water as much as it takes to roll out the dough

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Sweet cheese tartlets that they make for Easter in Santorini.

Recipe by asotiro

Sweet cheese tartlets that they make for Easter in Santorini.

Recipe by asotiro

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Sweet cheese tartlets that they make for Easter in Santorini.

Recipe by asotiro

Sweet cheese tartlets that they make for Easter in Santorini.

Recipe by asotiro

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Ingredients

For the filling
2 kgunsalted mitzithra (you can also use Cretan anthotyro)
2 kgsugar
5mastic grains
3eggs
1/4self raising flour
For the pastry
1 kgall purpose flour
3 tbspmargarine
1little bit of salt
warm water as much as it takes to roll out the dough

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Steps

1

Using a little bit of sugar, powder the mastic grains in a food processor or use a mortar and pestle.
2

Combine all the ingredients for the filling and let them stand.
3

Knead the pastry making sure that the margarine is well incorporated into the flour.
4

Roll out the dough, relatively thin (but not too much because it has to hold the filling).
5

Cut the pastry into round pieces of about 8cm diameter.
6

Place a spoonful of the filling in the center of each round piece and pinch the edges so that you make a small tartlet with "pleats" (look at the notes).
7

Place them in a baking tray and in the oven at 175 degrees, only with the bottom radiant element on for 20 minutes and then on both radiant elements for 10-20 minutes until they brown.