A beautiful and delicious recipe from Nikoleta Foskolou and her “Perivoli tis Nikoletas” or Nikoletas Orchard in Tinos Island. She gives cooking classes to visitors using only products that come from her own orchard that surrounds her home.

Ingredients

Potatoes 2kilos about

Olive oil

Onion 1large

Eggs 4

Grated cheese (pecorino will do) 2cups

Oregano 1tsp

Milk whole 1/2cup

Parsley freshly chopped 1/2cup

Salt and pepper

Method

Wash the potatoes and boil them with the peels on.

Peel the potatoes and pass them through a hand mill to mash them.

Chop the onion and sauté with 2tbs olive oil to soften.

Pour onion with the olive oil over the mashed potatoes.

Add the eggs to the potato

Add the grated cheese to the potato

Add fresh chopped parsley and season with salt and pepper.

Mix the potato with the entire ingredients well.

Grease your baking pan with olive oil and empty the potato mix in it.

With your hand or spatula press the potato mix to the same thickness in the pan.

With a fork draw the lines that you like on top of the pie

Sprinkle with olive oil and bake in preheated oven at 390F/200C for about an hour

Allow the pie to cool down so you can cut portions

Recipe: Nikoleta Foskolou

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