Recipe origin: Egypt
Ingredients
- 1 cup firm feta cheese, crumbled, or traditional Egyptian cheese such as labna or gebna
- 1 Tablespoon flour
- 1 egg
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- Olive oil
- Lemon wedges and pita bread cut into triangles, for serving
Procedure
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Place the cheese, flour, egg, salt, and pepper in a bowl and mix well with very clean hands.
- Roll the mixture into 1-inch balls.
- If the mixture seems too loose to hold the ball shape, add a little more flour.
- If the mixture seems too dry, add a bit of lemon juice, vinegar, or water.
- Pour 2 or 3 Tablespoons olive oil onto a cookie sheet to grease.
- Arrange the cheese balls on the cookie sheet, rolling them around to coat thoroughly with the oil.
- Bake 5 minutes.
- Wearing an oven mitt, open the oven door and shake the cookie sheet to prevent cheese balls from sticking and to turn them.
- Bake 5 more minutes, until golden brown.
- Remove with a spatula and drain on absorbent paper.
- Serve warm with lemon wedges and triangles of pita bread.
Serves 4 to 6.
