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Kimadopita Ground Beef and Vegetable Pie
A tray pie of crisp phyllo around spiced beef, finely minced onion, carrot and celery, bound with kasseri, egg and parsley. Warming allspice and cinnamon make it a whole meal, hot or at room temperature.

- YieldServes 4
- Hands-on1 h 15 min
- Total2 h 58 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Filling
- 20 mlextra-virgin Greek olive oil, 1 1/4 tbsp
- 1½large onions, very finely chopped
- ½large carrot, peeled and minced
- ½ stalkcelery, trimmed and minced
- to tastesalt and freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ tspground allspice
- ¼ tspfreshly grated nutmeg
- ¼ tspground cinnamon
- ¼ tspsweet paprika
- ¼ tspsmoked paprika or cayenne
- 400 gground beef, 7/8 lb
- ½ leafbay leaf
- 1½ tsptomato paste
- 65 gkasseri cheese, grated (about 5/8 cup)
- 1large egg, lightly beaten
- ½ cupfresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
Pastry
- 200 gfrozen phyllo, thawed and at room temperature
- to tasteextra-virgin Greek olive oil, for brushing
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