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Spanakopita Spinach Pie Recipe


Spanakopita Spinach Pie Recipe
I'm not Greek but a favorite boss named Carol was. She gave me her recipe for Spanakopita... Everyone lined up for it when she brought it to work.........it is the best I've ever had!

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Ingredients
  • 4 10 ounce pkg frozen, chopped spinach
  • 1 1/4 lb domestic feta (less sodium)
  • 2 bunches of scallions
  • 1 8 ounce small curd cottage cheese
  • 1 long box of filo dough
  • 1 lb or more of butter
  • 8 large eggs

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

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Comments


This is one of my favorites - soooo delicious! Thanks! =)


Made spanakopita many years ago and not sure what happened to my recipe. Your recipe looks quite similar to what I had made back then. Will have to try it!


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