Katerina Mouka, Master’s student of Plant Sciences All the flavours of the world can be found in the WUR community. Katerina Mouka (25), MSc student of Plant Sciences, shares a Greek recipe for spinach pie.
‘This is one of the typical dishes that every Greek grandma makes. It reminds me of my grandma, who loved herbs, because she made this pie every time she was expecting us. This recipe is the basic one and not how my grandma used to make it. Apart from spinach, she used to add some herbs that she picked in the wild. Most of them are endemic to Greece and not easily found elsewhere, but the pie is still delicious without them!’
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 3-4 leeks
- 500g spinach
- 1 cup olive oil
- 200g feta cheese
- 500g wheat flour
- Salt
- 2 tbsp vinegar
- 1 cup lukewarm water
Preparation
For the filling:
- Chop the onion and the leek in small pieces
- Fry the onion and leek in a pan.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the spinach, 5-6 tbsp of olive oil and the feta cheese.
For the filo pastry:
- Mix the wheat flour, water and vinegar in a bowl.
- Add 5-6 tbsp of olive oil and a pinch of salt.
- Continue to mix until the dough doesn’t stick to your hands.
- Roll out the dough until you can make 4 thin layers with it.
Put it together:
- Bek
- Place 2 layers of the thin dough in a baking tray. Then add the filling.
- Cover the filling with the other 2 layers. Don’t forget to spray some olive oil between the filo pastry layers.
- Bake in a preheated oven for an hour at 200oC. Enjoy!
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