Spanakopita

Recipe by: Michelle Darmody

This curled up pastry evokes holiday memories of coming off a hot sunny beach to grab a bite to eat in the dead of the afternoon heat, searching for a small bakery and then a cool section of shade to eat my spinach and feta encased in light, crisp filo pa

Spanakopita

SERVES

8

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

25

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

40

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 100g butter

  • 150g spinach, washed and roughly chopped

  • 200g feta cheese, crumbled

  • 1 tsp grated nutmeg

  • 1 tsp cracked black pepper

  • 50g parmesan cheese, finely grated

  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten

  • Zest 1 lemon

  • 7 sheets filo pastry

  • Sesame seeds, for sprinkling

Method

  1. Add a quarter of the butter into a heavy-based saucepan and allow it to sizzle.

  2. Add the chopped spinach until soft

  3. Place the crumbled feta, nutmeg, pepper, and parmesan into a bowl. Stir in one of the eggs along with the lemon zest.

  4. Add the chopped spinach into the bowl. Combine well and set aside.

  5. Line a round oven-proof dish with parchment. About 8 or 9 inches in diameter.

  6. Preheat your oven to 180ÂşC/gas mark 4. Melt the rest of your butter.

  7. Lay your first sheet of filo onto a clean work surface. Bush it generously with melted butter.

  8. Place another sheet beside it end to end so you have a long rectangle. Bush that with butter as well. Overlap by an inch. Do the same with the next sheet so that you have a really long rectangle.

  9. Use the next four sheets to layer and strengthen the rectangle, brushing each with melted butter

  10. Place a line of the spinach mixture along one of the long edges of the rectangle.

  11. Roll the pastry into a long sausage.

  12. Spiral the sausage from the inside out and gently place it into your prepared dish

  13. Brush with the other egg and sprinkle with the sesame seeds as well as some black pepper and salt.

  14. Bake for 40 minutes until golden on top.

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