Puff Pastry Stuffed With Spinach and Cheese

This recipe comes from an old 1980's cookbook from Bogota, Colombia. This is a really simple dish.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 1  lb puff pastry
• 1  lb fresh spinach
• 1⁄2 lb queso fresco or 1⁄2 lb ricotta cheese or 1⁄2 farmer cheese
• 4  hard-boiled eggs
• 1  egg
• 1  teaspoon sugar
•  kosher salt
•  fresh ground black pepper

Directions

1. Divide the puff pastry into 2 equal parts.
2. On a floured work surface, roll out 1 piece of the dough so that it is not too thin, but will cover a 8 x 8 inch baking dish (sides and bottom); grease pan and place rolled out puff pastry in dish.
3. Rinse spinach and cook, over medium heat, with salt, for about 5 minutes to wilt; remove, drain, and chop spinach.
4. In a bowl, combine spinach with cheese and spread the spinach mixture over the pastry in the baking dish; quarter the cooked eggs and scatter them over the spinach.
5. On a floured work surface, roll out other piece of pastry and place over spinach mixture; use a fork to seal like a crust.
6. Beat egg with sugar and brush over outer crust.
7. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 45 minutes.
8. Serve with meat.