World Flavors Cookbook

Flaouna (Easter Cheese Pies)

Name: Flaouna (Easter Cheese Pies)
Cook time: 45 min
Cuisine: Cyprus
Ingredients: bread dough, flaouna cheese (or halloumi/feta), raisins, mint, mastic, mahlab, sesame seeds

Traditional Easter savory-sweet cheese pies with raisins and sesame seeds.

Cuisine: Cyprus

Ingredients

bread dough, flaouna cheese (or halloumi/feta), raisins, mint, mastic, mahlab, sesame seeds

Instructions

Prepare a specific "flaouna" cheese mixture
Wrap in yeast dough
Fold into squares leaving corners open
Sprinkle with sesame
Bake until dark golden