Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, spanakopita! a very very good spinach pie!. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
In a cooking class, many years ago, I learned the trick of dry spinach to be used in a recipe. No need for pressing in a strainer. Just place the spinach on a plate, cover it with another plate (same side up).
Spanakopita! A very very good spinach pie! is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Spanakopita! A very very good spinach pie! is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have spanakopita! a very very good spinach pie! using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Spanakopita! A very very good spinach pie!:
- Take 800 g spinach
- Get 6 spring onions
- Make ready 1 leek
- Take 1 tbsp sea salt
- Get 2 large eggs
- Make ready 200 g feta
- Take 250 g ricotta
- Get 80 g rocket
- Get 1/2 tsp ground white pepper
- Prepare Nutmeg
- Prepare 1 bunch dill
- Prepare Olive oil
- Prepare 270 filo dough
In Greece, many people still make their own Filo pastry from flour, salt, water, and olive oil but there are very good commercially produced packets readily available in supermarkets and that is what is used in this recipe. It is common to find a whole pie cut up into pieces. Fantastic spinach pie and very easy to make! Very ''spinachy', rather than cheesy, creamy and salty like some other spanakopita I've had.
Steps to make Spanakopita! A very very good spinach pie!:
- You’ll need a very large mixing bowl for this. Wash the spinach well. If using larger leaves it needs to be washed at least three times to remove the dirt. Trim away any large stalks.Trim and finely slice the spring onions and leek. Rinse them in a colander to get rid of any dirt.
- Toss the spinach with the sliced veg (if your colander isn’t large enough, do this in two stages). Sprinkle over the sea salt (or half of it if you are doing this in stages) and toss it in. Leave in the sink. After 15 minutes, use your hands to really scrunch the leaves, onions and leeks together, squeezing out the moisture. Be sure to really get stuck in and use your hands here, a spoon won’t achieve the same thing.
- Once you have scrunched all the leaves, transfer them to your large mixing bowl, and repeat with the remaining ingredients if you are doing it in batches.
- Preheat your oven to 190°C.When the spinach is ready, whisk the eggs in a large mixing bowl. Crumble in the feta and fresh ricotta (draining away any excess liquid from the ricotta) into the bowl. Add the rocket, ground white pepper and finely grate in a generous amount of nutmeg. Finely chop the dill, stalks and all, and mix it in.
- Drizzle a little olive oil into a 25cm×30cm roasting tray and, using a pastry brush,evenly coat the tray. Lay out enough filo to cover the base and drape over the sides, then drizzle with olive oil and brush it all over. Repeat until you have used half the filo; it should be around 3–4 (this will depend on the brand you use) layers thick.
- Spoon the spinach filling into the tray, spreading it out evenly, then top with the remaining filo so it is also around 4 layers thick, brushing each layer with olive oil as you go.
- Scrunch the overhanging filo around the edge of the pie and brush with olive oil. Gently score the top of the pie into 8–12 pieces, being careful not to cut all the way through. Place the tray in the oven, and bake for around 45 minutes, until golden all over, then remove and leave to rest for at least 30 minutes before serving.
I squirted some lemon on top which kicked up the flavors even more. I plan to add a little lemon to the mixture next time. If you choose to prepare this Greek spinach pie recipe with commercial phyllo dough make sure to brush each sheet with good quality butter, which gives a very rich flavour and amazing smell! When preparing phyllo based Greek pies, like this spinach pie recipe, a little trick to make the phyllo crispier and flakier is to sprinkle the melted. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
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