Pumpkin Feta Triangles Recipes

PUMPKIN KOLOKITHOPITA (GREEK PHYLLO PASTRIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a baking sheet with butter.
• Mix together pumpkin, honey, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a medium bowl.
• Cut phyllo dough into vertical strips about 2 inches wide, and cover the pile of phyllo strips with a clean, damp tea towel.
• Lay one phyllo strip flat on a workspace in front of you. Using a pastry brush, brush the surface of the phyllo dough with an even coat of melted butter. Place a tablespoon of the pumpkin filling at the end of the phyllo strip. Starting at the end with the pumpkin filling, fold the phyllo dough over as you would a flag until the phyllo is the shape of a triangle. Place on baking sheet.
• Repeat until all of the pumpkin filling is used up.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until the tops of the triangles are golden brown.

PUMPKIN & FETA TRIANGLES

Steps:

• Combine pumpkin with cheeses, pine nuts & parsley.
• Layer 2 sheets filo on a work surface and spray with cooking oil.
• Cut pastry into 6 even strips. Place a heaped teaspoon of pumpkin mixture onto the end of each strip.
• Fold pastry over filling to form a triangle, continue folding, keeping the triangle shape, to the end of each strip.
• Place on a lightly greased baking tray and spray with oil.
• Continue with remaining pastry & filling.
• Bake at 180.C for 10-15 mins or until pastry is golden & crisp.

SAUSAGE AND FETA PHYLLO TRIANGLES

Steps:

• In a large heavy skillet cook the sausage over moderate heat, stirring and breaking up the lumps, until it is cooked through and transfer it with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Add the oil to the skillet, in the fat cook the onion and the mushrooms, stirring occasionally, until the onion is softened, and in a bowl stir together the sausage, the onion mixture, the Feta, the red peppers, the cinnamon, the nutmeg, the bread crumbs, the parsley, the eggs, and salt and pepper to taste.
• On a work surface arrange 1 strip of the phyllo with a short side facing you, brush it lightly with some of the butter, and put 1 heaping teaspoon of the filling about 1 inch from the bottom end of the strip. Fold the lower right corner of the strip up over the filling, forming a triangle of the folded phyllo, continue to fold the filled triangle up the entire length of the strip, and brush the triangle lightly with some of the butter. Form more triangles in the same manner with the remaining phyllo, filling, and butter, transferring them to baking sheets as they are formed. The triangles may be made 1 week in advance and kept frozen in airtight containers. Do not thaw the triangles before baking. Bake the triangles in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until they are golden.

ROAST PUMPKIN & FETA TRIANGLES WITH MACADAMIA PESTO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 190°C.
• Toss the pumpkin and rosemary in a small amount of the olive oil to coat the surfaces and roast till tender. Remove from the oven and allow too cool. When cool, add to the pumpkin mix the feta, cinnamon and pepper.
• Lay 2 sheets of filo pastry on a clean dry surface, lightly brush with olive oil and cut the pastry into 2 strips from top to bottom.
• Place approximately 2 tablespoons of the mixture in one corner of the pastry, fold the corner over and continue to fold forming a triangle with each fold until the end of the pastry is reached.
• Lightly brush with some more oil and bake on a greased baking tray until golden brown.
• In the meantime, make the pesto. Place the macadamia nuts, basil, cheese, oil and lemon juice into a food processor and process until combined (the mixture can be smooth or slightly nutty depending upon your preference).
• Remove triangles from the oven and serve with Macadamia pesto.