Spinach Pie - Spanakopita
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
1 pie
- Serves:
- 18
ingredients
- 10 ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed
- 6 ounces reduced-fat feta cheese, crumbled
- 16 ounces low-fat cream cheese, softened
- 3 green onions, finely sliced
- 2 large eggs
- 8 sheets phyllo dough, room temperature
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Squeeze all of the water from the spinach using either just your hands or a clean kitchen towel.
- Lightly beat eggs in large bowl.
- Add cream cheese, feta cheese, green onions and spinach.
- Blend until well mixed.
- Butter bottom of 13 x 9 glass baking dish with pastry brush. Lay 1 sheet of phyllo dough on bottom of dish. Butter phyllo dough and repeat by adding 3 more sheets with butter on top of each.
- Spread cheese mix on top of 4 buttered sheets of phyllo dough. Add 4 remaining sheets of phyllo dough in the same above fashion by buttering the tops of each sheet.
- Cut into 18 squares and sprinkle water on top to prevent from getting too brown.
- Bake 45 minutes until brown and bubbly.
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