Spanikopita: Greek Spinach Pie

2023, Nov 13    

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon minced shallot
• 1 cup cleaned and diced chanterelle mushrooms
  • (omit if you don’t like mushrooms)
• 2 cups cleaned spinach
• 4 ounces goat cheese
• Salt
• 4 sheets phyllo dough
• 6 ounces melted whole butter

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 480 degrees F.
• Heat a large saute pan over medium heat. Add olive oil and heat. Add garlic, shallot and mushrooms and cook for 4 minutes.
• Add spinach and cook until spinach is very tender, roughly 6 minutes.
• Fold in the goat cheese, season with salt, to taste, and let cool.
• Lay out phyllo dough, butter liberally and fold into fourths. Butter again.
• Divide spinach mix into 4 equal parts on the phyllo.
• Fold into triangles buttering between each fold.
• Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown.

Source: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-symon/spanikopita-recipe2-1943442