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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Combine butter and olive oil in large heavy pan and fry onion and garlic until soft. | 2. Wash and drain spinach and remove thick stalks, then blanch for a minute or two in boiling water. | 3. Add blanched spinach to onion and garlic mix and cook for further 5 minutes or so. | 4. Spinach should be deep green colour and stalks should be tender. | 5. Add eggs (I use no eggs, but the traditional receipe calls for them) and dill. | 6. Crumble feta into pan and stir well for a minute or two. | 7. Eggs should be cooked by then. | 8. Season with salt and pepper. | 9. Butter baking pan. | 10. If using phyllo, separate sheets, and brush each sheet individually with melted butter. | 11. Use 15-20 sheets, and overlap them, making sure that sheets hang well over the edge of the pan. | 12. If using short-crust or puff pastry, roll out a sheet big enough to line pan with plenty hanging outside. | 13. If making bite-sized pies cut squares approximately 2 1/12" square. | 14. Drain spinach mixture by pressing lightly and allowing liquid to drain into a cup or bowl. | 15. The filling should not be too wet or the pastry gets mushy. | 16. It should also not be too dry or the pie is not juicy enough. | 17. Put filling into pastry and bring edges up to enclose filling. | 18. (Fill each bite-size square with a spoonfull or so, fold over pastry into a triangle). | 19. Seal by crimping, tucking in, or any means that work. | 20. Score the top lightly, not enough to reach filling, and brush with egg. | 21. Bake in moderate oven until pastry is golden and done. | 22. Good hot or cold. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
spinach	1		thawed	33.0	5.85	3.3	0.45
puff pastry	1	package	frozen	-	-	-	-
greek feta cheese	250			6304.1667	0.0	1402.5	35.4167
butter	1/4	cup		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
olive oil				-	-	-	-
onion	1			64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
garlic				-	-	-	-
egg	2 -3			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
dill	4 -5	sprigs		-	-	-	-
salt pepper				6304.1667	0.0	1402.5	35.4167

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.