Spinach pie

Spanakopita

Ingredients

for the dough

  • 3/4 kgr all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup of tea olive oil
  • salt
  • water (as much as needed to make a soft dough)

for the filling

  • 1kgr spinach
  • dill (as much as you want)
  • fresh green onion (as much as you want)
  • 1/4kgr feta cheese
  • 3/4 cup of tea olive oil
  • salt and pepper

Method

  1. Knead all the ingredients for the dough and leave for 30′ about to rest.
  2. While waiting for the dough, clean and wash the spinach and chop it.
  3. Chop also the dill and fresh green onion.
  4. In a bowl, add the spinach with some salt and rub with your hands until you pull out the juices and strain it.
  5. Divide the dough into 6-7 balls and roll into sheets.
  6. Lay 3 sheets in the baking pan and greased them between with olive oil.
  7. Add the spinach, the dill, the fresh onion, the salt, the pepper and the feta cheese (which you can cut it into small pieces with your hands).
  8. Add the rest of the sheets and greased them between with olive oil.
  9. Cut the pie into pieces.
  10. Grease the top sheet and sprinkle with a little water.
  11. Bake in a preheated oven in 180oC for 40′ until golden brown.
Tips:

When baking is finished, leave it at a room temperature to cool slightly, then remove from the baking pan, otherwise it will dissolve when you try to remove it from the baking pan.