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romanian savory cheese pie with feta and pastry.
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Savory Cheese Pie with Quark

An amazing savory cheese pie with quark, feta, and layers of pastry, a Romanian-style borek called Dobrogeana.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour
Course: Pies and Cheesecakes
Cuisine: Romanian
Servings: 16
Calories: 233kcal
Author: Adina

Equipment

  • Deep baking tin of about 30x22 cm/12x9

Ingredients

  • 14 oz pack yufka pastry or filo pastry (Note 1)
  • olive oil for brushing
  • 5 large eggs
  • 9 oz feta (Note 2)
  • 9 oz low-fat quark
  • 1 ¼ cup Greek yogurt
  • fine sea salt to taste

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius/ 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Brush a deep baking tin of about 30x22 cm/12x9 inches with olive oil. The baking tin needs to be deep to avoid messing up your oven with the runny cheese filling. Mine is about 5 cm/ 2 inches deep.

Filling:

  • Mix: Place the eggs into a large bowl and beat them well with a fork or a whisk. Crumble the feta into the bowl, add quark and yogurt, mix well with the fork. Add salt to taste; it depends on how salty the feta cheese is.
  • Don't overmix; you want the mixture to be somewhat crumbly from the feta, it should not become a paste.

Assemble:

  • Keep the pastry sheets you are not working with covered with a kitchen towel in the meantime. I prefer to prepare all the pastry layers first, spread them on my very large kitchen table, and when they are ready, divide the cheese filling evenly between the sheets.
  • Pastry layer: Take one pastry sheet and brush it lightly with olive oil. Place another sheet on top and brush again. Repeat with a third pastry sheet and brush again.
  • Add filling: Place some cheese filling on only one half of the yufka pastry, leaving a little bit of space around the edges. Fold the other half of the pastry on top of it. Brush the folded half again with a bit of oil.
  • Push the sides of the pastry towards the middle so that the whole thing forms creases; see the pictures.
  • Repeat until you have used all of your pastry and filling. Keep in mind that each layer of pastry should be made out of 3 pastry sheets layered on top of each other with olive oil in between.
  • Cut: Place each formed, creased pastry assembly into the prepared pan. When everything is in the pan, cut 3 times across the filled pastry, it will make things easier for you when the pie is ready to serve.
  • Bake: Place the baking pan in the oven and bake for about 30 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. Serve hot or at room temperature.

Notes

  1. My Yufka pastry pack contained 15 sheets of approximately 43x30 cm/ 17x20 inches. Of course, you do not need precisely these exact sizes; more or less is OK.
  2. Preferably sheep's feta, but cow's feta is fine as well. Buy a block of feta, not already crumbled feta.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 233kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 89mg | Sodium: 412mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g