Potato Pockets Filled With Spinach-Chili

Submitted by Mia in Germany

"From the magazine of a local grocery. The potatoes have to be starchy potatoes! I haven't made this recipe yet, just posting for safe keeping. The magazine didn't say how many pockets you'll get, so I can only guess that it's meant for 4 servings."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• Dough

• 595.33 g potatoes, starchy
• 28.34 g butter
• 3 egg yolks
• 49.61 g cornstarch
• salt, to taste
• nutmeg, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• 118.29 ml polenta

• Filling

• 453.59 g spinach, fresh
• 141.74 g shallots
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 chili, red
• 70.87 g butter
• 28.34 g pine nuts
• salt, to taste
• nutmeg, to taste
• pepper, to taste

directions

1. Bake potatoes at 320 F about 1 hour.
2. Let cool until just warm, peel and puree.
3. Mix pureed potatoes with 2 egg yolks, starch butter and salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste.
4. Roll out dough thinly (about 1/4 inch) between two sheets of baking paper which are dusted with some starch.
5. Cut out as many rounds of 6 inches diameter as possible.
6. Generously sprinkle cookie sheet with polenta.
7. Carefully, using a spatula, place dough rounds onto polenta sprinkled cookie sheet. Refrigerate.
8. For the filling, saute finely chopped shallots, garlic, chili and whole pine nuts in 2 1/2 ounces butter. Add spinach, saute shortly, season with salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste.
9. Cream remaining egg yolk, baste dough rounds with egg yolk and place 1 tablespoon filling on one half of each round.
10. Put aside remaining spinach filling.
11. With a spatula, carefully flip other half of dough rounds over and seal rims, pressing lightly with a fork.
12. In a large pot, bring slightly salted water to a slow boil, carefully place dough pockets in simmering water, let simmer for 3 - 5 minutes.
13. Place remaining spinach on plates. Get pockets out of the boiling water, place on bed of spinach. Pour molten butter over the pockets, if desired.

Reviews

[Satyne]

Please forgive my bad photo, this recipe was a bit of a nightmare unfortunately. I suspect I had the wrong type of potatos. The pockets wouldn't hold together at all for me. I only got 2 serves out of this and ended up mixing everything through because (since the pockets didn't work) the pockets were a bit bland. The filling part of the recipe was very nice and I think it would be a nice side dish all on it's own. I topped this off with your Pimento paste and stirred that through too. Once it was all mixed up it was quite nice. Sorry I couldn't say great things about this one bub. Made for PAC Spring 2013