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Flaounes

Name: Flaounes
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Cyprus
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 5g Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 3 tbsp Olive oil; 200g Halloumi Cheese; 100g Parmesan cheese; 3 Egg; 50g Raisins; 1 tbsp Dried mint; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 4 tbsp White Sesame Seeds; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Sugar

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⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Cheese and raisin filling wrapped in sesame-coated dough with mint — Cyprus's Easter bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Flaounes are cheese breads essential to Orthodox Easter in Cyprus, made by the whole family on Good Friday. A filling of halloumi or aged cheese mixed with mint, raisins, and egg is wrapped in sesame-coated dough into squares or triangles and baked. They're eaten on Sunday morning after the Lenten fast ends.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the Friday before Easter in a Cypriot kitchen, grandmother and grandchildren wrap cheese breads coated in white sesame and line them on baking trays.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 5g
Milk 200ml
Olive oil 3 tbsp
Halloumi Cheese 200g
Parmesan cheese 100g
Egg 3
Raisins 50g
Dried mint 1 tbsp
Baking Powder 1 tsp
White Sesame Seeds 4 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk, and oil and let rise 1 hour.
Mix the grated halloumi and Parmesan, 2 eggs, raisins, mint, and baking powder to make the filling.
Divide the dough into small pieces, roll into rounds, and coat one side with sesame seeds.
With the sesame side out, add filling and fold in four sides so the filling shows in the center.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 190°C for 25 minutes.

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