Pasta Pie (Makaronopita)
Pasta Pie (Makaronopita)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pasta pie (makaronopita). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pasta Pie (Makaronopita) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pasta Pie (Makaronopita) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

This pie is a speciality of the Agrinio region, which is towards the north west of the Greek mainland. The pasta that is used is the same as that used for Pastichio. Recipe Category / Savory pies and Tarts. Greek pasta phyllo pie - Makaronopita.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have pasta pie (makaronopita) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pasta Pie (Makaronopita):
  1. Get 1 package Pasta
  2. Take 250 grams Yogurt (if you can find Greek Yogurt it works better)
  3. Take 2 Red bell Peppers (pepper of your chose chopped in cubes)
  4. Get 1 package Phyllo dough
  5. Prepare 2 Carrots (chopped in cubes)
  6. Prepare 2 small onions diced
  7. Prepare 3 medium size eggs
  8. Prepare 2 Zucchinis (chopped into cubes)
  9. Make ready 250 grams cheese (preferably salted)
  10. Make ready Tomato sauce (homemade or store bought)
  11. Take Olive Oil
  12. Prepare Salt

Brush the top of the pie with the remaining butter/oil mixture. Score the top of the pie into portions (don't cut right through). Hailing from the centre of the country, makaronopita is a savoury Greek pie with a Fillo Pastry exterior, filled with macaroni pasta. Macaroni pie is a casserole dish based on baked macaroni and cheese.

Instructions to make Pasta Pie (Makaronopita):
  1. In a large frying pan saute the vegetables with Olive Oil. Saute until the vegetables are soft about 10 minutes on low heat. Once that is done add salt and set aside to add into the pasta later.
  2. I used small pasta for this recipe.
  3. Boil Pasta in salted water.
  4. In a large bowl add in the Pasta and the Yogurt mix until nicely blended. Add the cheese, vegetables, and tomato sauce, eggs and mix.
  5. Oil brush the baking pan and place 5 pieces of Phyllo dough, oil brush the top phyllo dough Continue by placing another 5 pieces of dough and oil brush.
  6. Add in the Pasta mix.
  7. Continue by placing and folding inwards the rest of the 5 pieces of Phyllo dough and oil brush. (You can use as many pieces of dough as you like)
  8. Oil brush the top piece, and beat 1 egg and brush so that you can get a crispy taste. Slant slice with a knife from top to bottom. Pre-heat oven 180 degrees and bake for 1 hr. 🙂 Kali Orexi!!! 🙂

Hailing from the centre of the country, makaronopita is a savoury Greek pie with a Fillo Pastry exterior, filled with macaroni pasta. Macaroni pie is a casserole dish based on baked macaroni and cheese. Primary ingredients include elbow macaroni, cheese and milk. Pasta encased in buttery, flaky layers of fillo pastry - what could be better? At its simplest, this pie's filling is made only with pasta and fetta, but we've added some other Greek flavours to ours.

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