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Home » Appetizers and Snacks » Cheese appetizers

Turmeric Savoury Feta Cheesecake

Modified: Jan 10, 2024 · Published: Dec 29, 2015 · by Ramona

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Turmeric feta cheese cake, on a white plate

Why is this a feta cheesecake?

I call this turmeric feta cheesecake "savoury" because it hardly contains any sugar. Very little and we love it this way. You will see what I mean if you try it.

I still call it cake because it does contain some sugar. It may be a pie, a pasta dish whatever you wish but it's delish.  The beauty of this it's that you can make it as sweet as you like!! So it can be made as a sweet cake.

Feel very free with adding as much as you like and personalize it to your very own taste. It is so good either way.

I use the ready-made Fillo pastry as it is so easy nowadays to get it and it is a pretty good one. You can make your own if you fancy, of course, nothing like it but I find it a lot easier to just use ready-made since it is a laborious job to make a homemade Fillo pastry - you need a lot of space in your kitchen and a lot of skill.

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Turmeric feta cheese cake, on a white plate

Turmeric savoury feta cheesecake

This is a delicious cheesecake that can be personalised to your own taste and can be made savoury or sweet.
5 from 4 votes
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Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Eastern Europe, Mediterranean
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes
0 minutes minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 600kcal
Author: Ramona Sebastian

Equipment

  • ovenproof dish
  • glass bowl
  • whisker or an electric hand mixer

Ingredients

  • 400 g Fillo pastry (14.11 oz) (ready made)
  • 800 g yoghurt (28.22 oz) (organic, full fat)
  • 600 g feta cheese (21.16 oz) (organic)
  • 7 large eggs (organic)
  • 4 tablespoons cane sugar (organic)
  • ⅓ teaspoons turmeric powder (organic)
  • 50 g butter (1.76 oz)
  • 20 g icing sugar (0.71 oz) (optional)
Metric - US Imperial

Instructions

  • If the Feta cheese is pretty salty, submerge the cheese blocks into a container/large bowl filled with cold water. Leave it for at least 1 hour to desalt.
  • Preheat the oven at 180C/350F a little higher if not fan assisted.
  • In a large bowl, with the help of a fork smash the desalted Feta cheese blocks, add 4 eggs, and mix well with half of the yoghurt quantity (400 g), add the turmeric. Turmeric is not only healthy but it gives it a beautiful colour too!
  • Grease a dish (28 cm/ 20cm roughly) with some of the butter.
  • Place a layer of pastry containing 3-4 sheets together and then put a layer of the cheese mixture. Repeat this until you finish both mixture and pastry. Best to finish the top layer with pastry. Since the pastry sheets are not going to be the size of the dish, there is no need to cut them but just fold them in.
  • In the same bowl where the cheese mixture was you can pour the other remainder 400 g yoghurt with the rest of the eggs ( x 3) and whisk well until it is all very well incorporated.
  • Pour this yoghurt and egg mixture over the last layer of pastry. Scatter the remainder of the butter on top (little knobs) sprinkle a spoon of Demerara sugar on top and place in the oven.
  • Bake for 45-50 minutes until it is nice' n golden brown on top.

Notes

Serve hot or cold with a little icing sugar on top if you wish and some creme fraiche, double creme, full-fat yoghurt or simply plain as it comes out of the oven. Whichever way you decide to serve it it is absolutely delish! Bon appétit! *** Please do leave me a comment and let me know if you have made it, was it super delicious, did you make it your own by maybe adding something else?

Nutrition

Calories: 600kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 36g | Saturated Fat: 20g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 635mg | Sodium: 1259mg | Potassium: 378mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 985IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 537mg | Iron: 5mg
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Comments

  1. Nava Toledano says

    October 09, 2022 at 9:40 am

    5 stars
    🥰👍

    Reply
  2. Gabriella says

    June 07, 2020 at 6:07 pm

    5 stars
    Made this both sweet and savoury. I can’t make up my mind which I liked better. It’s simply delicious. My kids loved the sweet version (no surprise there) my partner loved the savoury. Will make it again for sure. Thank you for this recipe and the suggestions.

    Reply
    • Ramona says

      June 07, 2020 at 6:11 pm

      Thank you so much for your feedback Gabriella. It is pretty much the same here - I love the savoury and the rest like the sweet but that's not always the case. I suppose it is a matter of mood too 😉 I am really happy you have enjoyed it and that you will be making it again.

      Reply
  3. Ramona says

    August 14, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    Yes, It is delicious indeed. Enjoy and let me know how you liked it ?
    Thank you Kathleen!

    Reply
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