It’s autumn already and the weather has started to change. With all the Halloween decorations and all the pumpkins on sale I can only think of one thing and one thing only. Kolokotes! -the punctuation on e haha- The word freely means pies with kolotzi aka pumpkin. I absolutely love making them and eating them of course as they are such a comfort food to eat either as breakfast or as a snack. They have the shape of a Cornish pasty or the Spanish empanadas but instead the filling is not savoury but sweet.
As a matter of fact, kolokotes are a truly authentic Cypriot recipe as nothing similar has been recorded elsewhere purely because of the filing. In a traditional kolokoti, there is pumpkin, onion, cinnamon,sultanas, bulgur wheat to soak up all the pumpkin juices and some olive oil. They are absolutely divine and I honestly think you should try them cause they are the best!
Now, before we start baking my lovelies just to let you know that -unfortunately- you can’t use Halloween pumpkins for this recipe as a lot of them are ornamental but you will need some butternut squash. Right, let’s do this!
