Hello Greek friends, can someone tell me what this is? I got this with my order at a Greek restaurant. It’s subtly sweet, a bit greasy, and not sure how to describe the texture, but I like it 🙂

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  1. Iam greek i live in greece and i dont know what this is. If it is tasty its good! Can you understand what is made from? Cheese?

  4. does it feel like it has syrup in it (basically bit wet texture)? In that case I would suppose its revani or portokalopita( orange pie), its a greek dessert with suryp

  7. It’s rather difficult to figure out without smelling or tasting it. It would possibly help more if you provided a photo outside the packaging, from the sides rather than from the top and with a little better lighting.

  8. If there is no syrup, it’s probably a “milk pie” (I don’t know if that’s the correct translation), same as the one that my grandma makes for me.

    If there is syrup, it should be “ravani”, a Greek dessert. Really delicious, I have to say.

  10. At first it looked like «γαλατόπιτα» (milk pie) but looking closer I see rice maybe? Could be ρυζόγαλο φούρνου (Greek style milk rice pudding but oven baked).

  13. Portokalopita (orange pie) has a very subtle (almost none) taste of orange. You can just slightly recognize the orange by smelling it. It has that weird texture, is greasy and has syrup.

    Revani (ravani) has simpler texture, more like a cake and also has syrup.

  15. Maybe it’s patsavouropita/portokalopita? That would explain why it’s greasy sweet and has a subtle taste of orange.
    Also would explain why you thought there’s maybe rice in there
    Patsavouropita is basically portokalopita but it’s based on crumbled up filo pastry that after baked can be confused with some kind of rice dessert pudding (like rizogalo as someone here mentioned)

    But it could also be ravani which is some kind of syrupy cake made with semolina flour. that would explain why the top looks so dark .

    Ravani is softer yet denser
    Patsavouropita is juicier and less homogeneous(maybe a bit spongy?)
    Hope that helps figure out what it is

  18. I’m going to go with portokalopita too. The weird texture is from crushed phyllo. Ravani looks similar but it doesn’t have a weird texture, the bready part is very similar to a normal cake.

  19. It looks like portokalopita (pie with orange).

    I don’t think is ravani and is more common in restaurants to provide it.

  21. Noone ever mentioned the texture is the semolina (simigdali). Its orange pie portokalopita most probably.

  25. You could go to their dessert menu or look at google reviews.

    Sometimes the complimentary desserts are part of the menu or maybe someone commented on the dessert in their review.

  28. Looks like ravani.kinda of normal cake with syrup,but that particular one seems it got a bit overdone while in the oven!

  30. Chalvas. If it is oily it is chalvas.
    Ravani and the rest deserts with syrup would not be subtly sweet but teeth decaying sweet.
    Chalvas is usually made with semolina and the sugar may be moderated. It is orange because of the yellow semolina flour.

    Hitchcock and Sculley out.

  33. This is only a suggestion. I see there are rice pies in Greece. What if it could have been be a sweet rice pie without fyllo? I’m definitely going to try this idea more like a crossover between rice pudding (ryzogalo) and a pie, slightly soaked in syrup after the rice had gone crispy on the top. Thank you for the inspiration and I hope you find what it actually was

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