Spanakopita Spinach Pie Recipe

How to make it

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• 350 oven
• Thaw spinach and squeeze dry
• Chop scallions in food processor, must be chopped fine
• Cut feta into pieces and put through processor
• In a large bowl mix scallions, feta cheese, cottage cheese, spinach and eggs until well blended
• While you are doing this let filo come to room temperature, about 1/2 hour or so
• Melt the butter
• In a 13x9x2 1/2 roasting pan use a brush and generously butter the pan, bottom and sides
• Take 6 to 7 sheets of filo and line bottom of pan making sure to cover completely by overlapping if necessary
• Brush filo generously with butter
• Spread first layer of spinach mixture and cover the dough
• repeat with 5 layers of filo, butter and mixture until everything is used up.
• Last layer should be about 7 sheets of dough, use broken pieces if necessary and butter dough generously.
• All the butter should be used up during this process, it is the key to this dough
• Take your brush and go around the pie and smooth all the rough edges
• Place in preheated 350 oven and bake 1 1/2 hours or until dark golden brown
• Cool about 2 hours before cutting
• Make 10 slits in pie all the way to the bottom when cooling