Kapros Turos Lepeny (Dill and Cottage Cheese Pan Pie)
Ingredients
Crust
- 300 g flour
- 130 g butter/margarine unsalted butter, if using salted, omit salt
- 2 yolks
- 2-3 tbsp sour cream or plain yogurt
- 1/2 tsp salt
Filling
- 200 g Hungarian cottage cheese homemade or store bought (I cannot find cottage cheese in Canada that is close to Hungarian cottage cheese. I was informed if you can find farmer's cheese, that is similar to cottage cheese. I did see at Warlmat they have Greek cottage cheese, sold in cube, and it says smooth cottage cheese. I havent try those but it sounds close to Hungarian cottage cheese).
- 60-80 g butter/margarine omit salt if you are using salted butter
- 1 yolk
- 2-3 egg whites
- fresh dill chopped, as much as you like, but otherwise about 2-3 generous tbsp
- 1 tsp salt
- Enough sour cream
Instructions
Crust
- Preheat oven to 350 F and line a rectangular baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
- Mix flour, butter, yolks and salt until combine, and start kneading. Add in sour cream so mixture would be pliable.
- Roll into rectangular and place it on baking sheet.
Filling
- Cream yolk, cottage cheese and butter until creamy
- Stir in chopped dill
- Beat egg whites until still then mix into cottage cheese and fold to combine
- Pour on to crust, smooth surface
- Top surface with sour cream and smooth it as smooth as you can
- Bake for 25-35 mins