🧀🥧 Grandma’s Savory Cheese Pie (Crispy Filo, Melts in Your Soul)
Pies and DoughsBalkan RichardObradovic Jun 03, 2025 97
Description
This pie is what childhood smells like – golden, crackling filo with warm cheese inside, steaming as you tear it apart. Grandma would always say it’s just something she "threw together," but it tasted like a secret recipe passed through generations. It’s perfect for breakfast, lunch, or midnight fridge raids when nobody’s looking. One bite, and you're back in her cozy kitchen.
Ingredients
📜 500 g (1.1 lb) filo dough (store-bought or homemade)
🧀 400 g (14 oz) feta cheese or farmer’s cheese
🥚 3 large eggs
🥣 200 ml (3/4 cup + 1 tbsp) plain yogurt
🫒 100 ml (1/2 cup) sunflower or vegetable oil
🧂 1 tsp baking powder
💧 Salt to taste (only if cheese is not salty)
🧈 Butter or more oil, for brushing the top
Preparation
1️⃣ Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
2️⃣ In a large bowl, combine 🧀 cheese, 🥚 eggs, 🥣 yogurt, 🫒 oil, 🧂 baking powder, and 💧 salt if needed. Mix until creamy.
3️⃣ Lightly grease a baking pan with oil or butter.
4️⃣ Place 2 sheets of 📜 filo dough, brushing each with a little oil.
5️⃣ Spread 2–3 tablespoons of the filling evenly.
6️⃣ Repeat layers until everything is used. Finish with 2 filo sheets on top.
7️⃣ Brush generously with 🧈 melted butter or oil.
8️⃣ Bake for 35–40 minutes or until golden, puffed, and crispy.
9️⃣ Let cool 10 minutes before cutting – if you can wait that long.
Total Time
🛠️ Prep: 15 min
🔥 Bake: 40 min
🕒 Total: 55 min
Nutritional Value
🔥 290 kcal
💪 Protein: 9 g
🧈 Fat: 18 g (2 g saturated)
🍞 Carbohydrates: 20 g
🥄 Sugar: 1 g
🧂 Sodium: 310 mg
Advice
Want it fluffier? Add 1 tablespoon of sparkling water to the filling – it’s a grandma hack that nobody ever wrote down, but it works like magic.
Status
Flaky layers. Melty cheese. That golden, crunchy top.
🥧 This Balkan-style cheese pie is the kind of comfort that hugs you from the inside.
✨ You don’t make just one. You make two – because one disappears before it cools.
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