Spanakopita

Spanakopita

Ingredients

• Ingredients for the filling
• 2 KG fresh spinach
• 1 cup olive oil
• 500g feta cheese
• 2 eggs
• 1 medium-sized onion chopped
• 4-5 scallions chopped
• 1 cup of dill chopped
• Some spearmint
• Salt
• Black Pepper
• A pinch of nutmeg
• Ingredients for Phyllo dough
• 700gr all-purpose flour
• 2tbs wine vinegar
• 1/3 cup of olive oil
• 1/3 tsp salt
• 1-2 cups water

Directions

1. Preparation for Phyllo dough
2. Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and knead until you have a nice soft dough
3. Preparation for Spanakopita
4. clean and wash the spinach, in a boiling pot of water blanch your spinach set it in a strainer, and set aside, in a deep pan add your olive oil 1 cup add the chopped onions and the scallions saute for 1-2 min add spinach saute 3min and set aside. Let it cool down after it's cool add dill spearmint salt pepper nutmeg feta cheese cut into pieces eggs and mix it up. For the phyllo, in a large bowl add the flour, salt, and vinegar, mix, and add slowly the water while mixing, you will need to get a soft dough, knead and set aside covered for about 1 hour. After that open it into large sheets using flour, or as big as your bake pan add oil ( corn oil ) between the sheets, and the spinach mixture cover with the rest of the sheets ( 3 on bottom 3 on top ) and bake 180c℃ 1 hour. Ready!