Cretan reciipe for "orange - pie"

The Cretans know how to live every day with passion. Lovers of enjoyment and taste, have a very special cooking and pastry, with delicious recipes.

A quite popular sweet in Crete, is the so-called orange - pie. The orange pie is made with many different recipes, but the following is the most popular on the island.

I share it with you in case you want to try it out!

Materials for the pie:

3/4 cup of olive oil of very good quality

4 eggs

1 cup of sugar

3 vanillas

2 orange zest

1 cup of yogurt

½ kilo of very thin dough sheet

1 baking (3.5 teaspoons)

3 tablespoons of orange jam (or other citrus fruit)

Materials for the syrup:

1.5 Sugar

The juice of the two oranges we used for the zest, filled with water to have 2 cups of liquid.

1 cinnamon stick 5 cm

How to make the pie

You mix up the oil with the eggs and the sugar until they become a homogeneous mixture. Then you add yoghurt, vanilla, zest, baking, jam and beat again to dissolve yoghurt and jam.

Then tear the dough sheets into small pieces and add to the mixture while stirring each time. This should be done until the mix covers all the pieces of the dough.

Let the mixture rest for 15 minutes and pour it into an oiled pyrex (my own is 39 cm long) or in a baking tray number 30-32.

Bake the pie in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 45 minutes, or until it has a dark, caramel surface.

Let it cool down.

Boil the syrup’s materials for 10 minutes from the time of boiling and then pour the hot syrup into the cold pastry

You can serve the orange pie with a ball of vanilla or chocolate ice cream or just with chocolate sauce. 

I hope you'll like it!