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Baked Greek milk pie, cooling down on a blue tea towel.
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Small Batch Galatopita - Greek Milk Pie without Filo

A creamy Greek dessert made with just 7 ingredients! Galatopita is a milk pie similar to a custard tart. No need to pull out the filo for this one as it’s crustless. Perfect for Easter and other celebrations.
Course Dessert, Easter
Cuisine Greek
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Resting Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings 6 Serves
Calories 197kcal
Cost $8

Equipment

  • 1 9x9 in (24cm) Baking Dish round or square, glass dish or baking tin - it's your choice.

Ingredients

Optional

For the egg wash

Optional

Instructions

  • Place a medium saucepan over medium heat and add in your milk, sugar, vanilla essence, butter and optional lemon zest.
    2 cups milk, ⅓ cup caster sugar / superfine sugar, 2 tbsp butter, 1 ½ tsp vanilla essence, 1 lemon zest
  • When the butter starts to melt, give everything a quick stir and pour in your fine semolina flour, whisking continually. You’ll find the mixture will start to thicken in 2-3 minutes. Once thick, take off the heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
    ⅓ cup fine semolina flour
  • Pre-heat your oven to 180°C.
  • Give your thickened milk a quick whisk. If it has formed a slight skin, just mix it in, this is fine. Very slowly pour in the eggs over three batches, whisking fast as you go.
    2 eggs

For the egg wash

  • Whisk the egg, vanilla essence, sugar and optional cinnamon in a small dish. Lightly brush or pour over the top of the custard pie and place into the oven.
    1 egg, 1/2 tsp vanilla essence, 1 tsp caster sugar / superfine sugar, ½ tsp cinnamon
  • Bake for 30-40 minutes until cooked through, and the top is nice and browned. Note: If your oven browns the top very quickly, place aluminium foil over the top. This will stop it burning and allow the rest of the pie to cook all the way through.
  • Allow pie to cool to room temperature before slicing. Best served chilled from the fridge.

Garnish ideas

  • Garnish with anything from icing sugar and cinnamon to fresh mint or honey!
    icing sugar / powdered sugar, fresh mint leaves, cinnamon, honey

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Nutrition

Calories: 197kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 102mg | Sodium: 93mg | Potassium: 174mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 368IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 117mg | Iron: 1mg