Cypriot halloumi cheese pie (in molds)

Enjoyable every time!

Cypriot halloumi cheese pie is a salty snack that can be enjoyed for breakfast, as a snack or as an accompaniment to a salad, with a lemonade, Portokalada ,even with a coffee with friends. It is also customary to serve at a birthday party by baking the mixture in small individual molds.

Preparation Time	Cooking Time	Totall Time	Difficulty Degree	Portions
15 minutes	45-50 minutes	60 minutes	Easy	6-8

Ingredients:

2 halloumi cheese 450 gr grated
4 eggs
½ cup milk
½ cup of sunflower oil/peanut oil/olive oil
5-6 tablespoons of dry mint / fresh mint
2 cups all purpose flour 450gr
2 teaspoons of Baking Powder
100 g raisins (optional)
sesame seeds for sprinkling (optional)

Preparation:

1. Sift the flour with Baking Powder.
2.Whisk the eggs with the milk, add the oil and the mint and stir the flour with the Halloumi cheese.

3.Put the mixture in a non-stick mold or silicone mold and bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 50 minutes. (Cheese pie is ready when inserting a knife or a bamboo stick and comes out easily and clean).

4. Let cool, get out of the mold and serve!

Chef's advice

We can put and bake the mixture of the cheese pie in individual molds to serve at parties. In addition, we can add raisins to the dough and sprinkle with sesame seeds before baking.

Advice from the nutritionist

If we want to reduce the fat content in our recipe, we may use non fat milk 0% (or coconut milk) and low fat halloumi cheese.