Dezi Spanakopita (Greek cheese & spinach pie)

Try Dezi’s Greek Spanakopita recipe at home!

dezi’s spanakopita recipe

Ingredients:

• 500g spinach leaves
• 400g feta
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 4 x spring onion sprigs
• 1/2 bunch dill
• 1/2 bunch flat leaf parsley
• 2 tbs fine semolina
• Cracked black pepper
• Fillo pastry
• 50g butter
• 1/2 cup olive oil

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°c
• Wash your spinach leaves and add to a non-stick pan. Cook on medium heat until all the leaves have wilted.
• Squeeze out the excess moisture/ water and chop roughly. Add to a bowl
• Chop the spring onions, dill, parsley and add to the bowl.
• Whisk the eggs and add
• Season with pepper, add the semolina, parmasen cheese and mix well
• Add the feta and use a fork to break it up into chunks and mash a little also.
• Melt butter and add the olive oil into the same pot. Use a brush to baste your baking dish.
• Add two sheets of filo, crossing over in the middle and leaving some overhang. Brush the sheets with the butter and oil mixture and repeat this until you have four layers. Lastly add a rectangle sheet on top
• Add spinach filling
• Lay one piece of filo, butter the top and fold in the overhang into the middle
• Use remaining buttered sheets into loose rosettes to cover the top.
• Sprinkle on some sumac/sweet paprika/ sesame seeds and bake for 45 mins till golden