Spanakopita Recipe

Spanakopita is a pop too delicious recipe also known equally Greek spinach & feta pie.

In this finger-friendly version, nosotros plough sheets of phyllo into delicious stuffed triangles that are easily made ahead too frozen, too hence baked when ready to serve.  The flaky phyllo is fun to play alongside too fifty-fifty to a greater extent than fun to eat.  The newspaper thin, calorie-free too crispy dough is non equally heavy as pie crust hence the tasty filling takes middle stage.  Loaded alongside spinach, feta, ricotta, too chopped pino nuts, you lot too your guests volition honey the flavor too the adorable lilliputian packages!

 

 

First, did you lot always brand newspaper footballs dorsum inwards school?  We wrote notes to friends too folded them into tiny triangles too “flicked” them across the room when the instructor wasn’t looking.  Guys used to genuinely play football game on the desktop alongside those lilliputian things too brand uprights alongside their thumbs too fingers.  Anyway – that has zilch to exercise alongside this recipe other than it’s precisely the means you lot crimp the filling upwards into these bundles of deliciousness!

 

 

The recipe makes almost xxx appetizers, the perfect amount for a grouping of 10 or 12, but correct for your side past times side vacation gathering.   I honey the flaky layers too the warm cheesy filling.  The seize alongside teeth from the feta is perfect!

 

 

I could swallow these for dinner alongside a drinking glass of vino too a few olives too live a happy camper.  With loads of spinach I jurist that covers the greens right?

 

You genuinely don’t get got to swallow these alongside a fork, but saying!

 

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Spanakopita Recipe

Prep Time

1 hr

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

1 hr 20 mins

 

Spanakopita - the pop too delicious Greek recipe for Spinach too Feta Pie is right away a finger-friendly appetizer!

Course:

Appetizer

Cuisine:

Greek

Servings: 30 appetizers

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  8
  ounces
  feta cheese,
  crumbled into pocket-sized pieces
  


• 
  6
  ounces
  whole-milk ricotta cheese,
  about 3/4 cup
  


• 
  2
  large eggs,
  lightly beaten
  


• 
  4
  whole scallions,
  sliced thin, white too light-green parts
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  fresh chopped dill
  


• 
  Juice of 1 lemon,
  about 1 1/2 tablespoons
  


• 
  1
  medium garlic clove,
  minced
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  ground nutmeg
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  fresh Blue Planet dark pepper
  


• 
  10
  ounces
  frozen chopped spinach,
  thawed too squeezed dry
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  pine nuts,
  toasted too chopped (walnuts would live fine hither too)
  


• 
  8
  ounces
  14x9-inch phyllo, thawed inwards the fridge overnight
  


• 
  3/4 to 1
  cup
  olive oil
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Toast the pino nuts inwards a pocket-sized skillet over medium-low oestrus stirring oftentimes until lightly browned.
   
   


2. 
   
   To brand the filling, combine the feta, ricotta, beaten eggs, scallions, dill, lemon juice, garlic, nutmeg, too pepper inwards a large mixing bowl. Stir inwards the spinach too pino nuts until good blended. Filling tin live refrigerated at this indicate for upwards to 24 hours.
   
   


3. 
   
   Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
   
   


4. 
   
   Prepare 2 pieces of parchment newspaper to gibe your baking pan. Prepare some other large spell of parchment to role equally a travel surface when preparing the triangles.
   
   


5. 
   
   Lay 1 sail of phyllo on the parchment covered surface too brush alongside olive oil. Top alongside a 2nd sail of phyllo too repeat past times brushing alongside oil. Using a sudden knife or pizza cutter, cutting the phyllo into 3 3-inch strips. You should right away get got 3 3x14-inch strips. Place a heaping tablespoon of filling inwards the corner of the dough too crimp to cast a triangle. Continue folding upwards too over to the terminate of the strip of phyllo. Brush the triangle alongside olive stone oil on both sides too identify on the prepared pan seem side down.
   
   


6. 
   
   Once 1 pan is filled, bake inwards the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Rotate the baking sail halfway through.
   
   


7. 
   
   While the kickoff pan bakes, travel along making triangles until all phyllo is used.
   
   


8. 
   
   Serve warm or room temperature too shop leftovers inwards the refrigerator.
   
   

Recipe Notes

Once the filling is prepared, you lot tin encompass too refrigerate for upwards to 24 hours earlier making the triangles.

Keep the phyllo inwards the fridge until you lot get got prepared the filling, parchment paper, pan(s), too get got all tools ready. The phyllo volition larn brittle if left out likewise long hence you lot volition ask to travel quickly.

Phyllo comes inwards a bundle of 2 rolls. You volition exclusively ask 1 ringlet for this recipe. Keep the remaining phyllo frozen for some other use.

The unbaked triangles tin live covered alongside plastic twine too frozen. Once frozen, motion the triangles to an airtight container. Frozen, unbaked Spanakopita volition hold for upwards to a month.

Inspired past times several recipes including 1 from All-Time Best Appetizers from America's Test Kitchen Cookbook.

 

Here are a few to a greater extent than fun appetizer recipes you lot mightiness like:

• Goat Cheese Mousse too Smoked Salmon Canapés from The Cafe Sucre Farine


• Warm Skillet Bread alongside Artichoke Spinach Dip from Seasons & Suppers


• Cheesy Spinach Artichoke Bread from The View from Great Island


• Savory Smoked Salmon Cheesecake from Saving Room for Dessert

 

Don’t forget the parchment newspaper too a lilliputian scoop for the filling!  (Each photograph is clickable)

             

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Finally, happy Fri my friends!  Do you lot larn a lot of trick-or-treaters too sit down exterior on Halloween passing out handfuls of candy?  Or exercise you lot skip the candy, plough out the lights, too enshroud similar no one’s home?  This may live the yr I enshroud upstairs haha!  I haven’t bought whatever candy, our dogs travel nuts for hours, too nosotros larn hundreds of kids looking for treats.  But I honey looking at the lilliputian ones all dressed upwards inwards their costumes.  My grandson Isaac is looking forrad to existence a super-hero for a night!  Yeah Captain America!

 

Thanks hence much for stopping by!  Hope you lot get got a wonderful weekend 🙂

Tricia

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