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Flaounes
Cyprus Food - Easter Bread
Ingredients
Flaounes Bread
3 cups strong plain flour
1 tspn salt
2 tspns sugar
2 tbspns olive oil
1 sachet easy bake yeast
cup of warm water to mix
Filling
6ozs cheddar cheese
6ozs halloumi cheese
1 tspn baking powder
1 tspn dried mint
2 eggs
half cup sultanas
To decorate
1 egg beaten
Sesame seeds
6 or... however many you like, red-dyed hard boiled eggs.
METHOD
For dough - put flour in bowl, add yeast, salt, sugar and oil. Add warm water and mix.
Kneed for 5 mins and leave to rise for 1 hour.
For Filling
Mix together cheese, flour, baking powder, mint and sultanas and then add beaten eggs.
Mix to a stiff dough and cover.
When hour is up...
Switch on oven and put on medium heat.
Knock back dough, roll out and cut into 12 balls.
Roll out each ball into a 4 inch circle.
Add a teaspoon of mixture to each and then fold edges into a square (to ensure all fillings are equal you can divide the mixture into 12 balls).
Mix egg and cover each flaoune and then sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bake in oven for 15 mins or until golden.
Place on a plate, decorate with red-dyed eggs and when the time comes, try hitting eggs with each other to see whose egg is the hardest.
Easter in Cyprus
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