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Pies or “pites” in Greek is not one, but a complete gigantic category of foods and sweets in both traditional and contemporary Greek cuisine.
Basically, it is anything that is either wrapped or simply enclosed between one, two or more layers of dough - made of flour and water - spread so much that after baking it is as fragile, thin and crisp as an extremely dried leaf. Hence its name “filo”, that means “leaf” in Greek.
Inside this folded “leaf” or between two or more of them, you get practically anything from cheese, to meat or sausages and from vegetables to small fishes, all combined with olive oil and eggs; or a compilation of all these; or simply custard cream if you want to make a kind of dessert. Then you put the complete ensemble in the oven and bake it until crisp on the outside, but still moist inside - a savory set of flavors within flavors.
The most famous and widespread pies are the “tyropitas” (cheese pies) and “spanakopitas” (spinach pies), as well as a combination of the two.