Spinach Pie - Spanakopita
Appetizers
Delicious pie which can be eaten as served as side dish. Greeks may eat it alone as breakfast or light main dish.
- One pack of very thin 'filo' pastry
- 1 Kg / 2 lb of spinach, either frozen or fresh
- 1 kg / 2 lb of feta cheese
- 250g / 1/2lb of butter or margarine
- 2 cloves of garlic or garlic power (optional)
If the spinach is raw, cook and slice thinly. If frozen, defrost. In either case, mix the feta cheese with the spinach to make a mixture, adding the chopped garlic. Spread some butter on an oven tray. Open the fílo package and place each thin pastry (it is as thin as paper) on the tray, buttering each one using a brush. After you have done 8 fílo slices, place the spinach/féta mixture and spread over the entire oven tray, covering the 8 pastry slices. On top of this, place the remaining pastry slices, buttering each one of them as well. Notch the last one creating 2 inch (5 cm) on a side, squares. Place in a medium heat oven and cook till brown.
