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Romanien Cheese Pie or "plăcintă", is a layered pastry that can be savory or sweet, and is made with cheese and dough is a popular dish in Romanian Cuisine, it is made with different type of cheese, it can be: cheddar, mozarella, blue cheese, parmesan either cow cheese, sheep or goat, in this recipe i present the pie with cow cheese, a specific kind of cheese in east europe, it is called sweet cheese. Cheese pie can be prepared as well as dessert, but then we will not add salt and dill in cheese filling, and we will add sugar as we like. A round, fried pie made with ricotta or other cheeses, plăcintă is a popular snack or side dish in Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. A traditional Easter dessert made with a sweet cheese filling, such as farmer's cheese, cottage cheese, or ricotta. The filling can also include grated apples, walnuts, and cinnamon. The tradition of layering pies dates back to ancient Rome and Greece. The Romans adapted the plakon into a bread dish called placenta, which was baked on bay leaves

Ingredients:

• 1 kg wheat flour
• 500 grams sweet and fresh cow cheese
• salt, yeast, dill, oil

Cooking steps:

1. add salt and yeast to flour and mix well
2. mix the flour with water until get a soft dough and add a little bit of oil
3. let the dough in a bowl at a warm place for c.a. 1 hour
4. in a bowl mix (by spoon, do not use blender) the cheese with salt and dill,
5. spred the table with a bit of flour and cut the dough in small pieces like in the picure above
6. take a pice of dough and flatten to get a round shape, thin and the size bigger than cooking pan
7. spred the prepared cheese in the middle round form smaller size of the cooking pan
8. fold the edges to cover cheese, to get a shape smaller than cooking pan
9. flatten again softly and get a shape like cooking pan
10. lay the pie in the pan with hot oil, the oil should not cover the pie
11. cook both sides untill nice yellow colour

Recipe from Transylvania