Crispy Cheese Pie

Lazy Woman’s Pie

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    3 to 4

    as a main course
    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 2014

  • About

This is my adaptation of the cheese pies Balkan women prepare whenever they fire the wood ovens. They are easy and fast to make. The thin, crackerlike cheese pastry is called tis tembelas (“lazy woman’s pie”) in Epirus, at the northwestern edge of Greece, no doubt because it is not a proper pie with several sheets of phyllo and stuffing; often it is a simple batter of flour, eggs, crumbled feta, and milk, spread on a sheet pan and browned instantly to crispy perfection in a blazing-h