Saturday, August 7, 2010

Spanakopita



Spanakopita
butter
fresh baby spinach
olive oil
salt
pepper
minced garlic
crumbled feta cheese
cottage cheese
basil
oregano
nutmeg
filo dough

Directions:
In a medium pan melt butter on medium heat. Put fresh spinach in pan with butter, then add some olive oil.Coat spinach slightly with olive oil. Spinach with wilt. When done, chopped spinach coarsely. Put in a bowl, mix together salt, pepper, garlic, feta, cottage cheese, basil, oregano, and nutmeg with spinach.

Take 1 phyllo sheet from stack and arrange on a work surface with a long side nearest you (keeping remaining sheets covered) and brush with some butter. Top with another phyllo sheet and brush with more butter. Cut buttered phyllo stack crosswise into 6 (roughly 12- by 2 3/4-inch) strips.

Put a heaping teaspoon of filling near 1 corner of a strip on end nearest you, then fold corner of phyllo over to enclose filling and form a triangle. Continue folding strip (like a flag), maintaining triangle shape. Put triangle, seam side down, on a large baking sheet and brush top with butter. Make more triangles in same manner, using all of phyllo.

Bake triangles in middle of oven until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool slightly.

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