Spanakopetes (My In-Law's Spinach Poopies)
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
6 dozen triangles
ingredients
- 6 -8 green onions, finely chopped
- 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 lb fresh spinach, washed and finely chopped
- 1⁄2 lb ricotta cheese or 1/2 lb cream cheese
- 1⁄2 lb feta cheese, crumbled
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄3 cup dry breadcrumbs, finely ground
- 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- 1 dash pepper
- 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
- 1⁄8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄2 lb phyllo dough
- 3⁄4 cup butter, melted
directions
- In a large frying pan saute onions in olive oil until limp.
- Add spinach and cook over medium high heat just until limp.
- Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
- In a medium bowl, beat together ricotta or cream cheese, feta, eggs, bread crumbs, Parmesan, pepper, parsley, and nutmeg.
- Stir in sauteed vegetables.
- Lightly grease several baking sheets.
- When you work with fila dough you must work fast so that it doesn't dry out so gather your fila, spinach filling, melted butter and baking sheet around a flat work surface.
- Dampen a tea towel and wring out the moisture so that it isn't wet - just damp.
- Lay out one sheet of fial at a time - keep remaining fila covered the damp tea towel and/or clear plastic film.
- Cut the one sheet into strips 3-inches wide and about 12-inches long.
- Brush each strip lightly with the melted butter.
- Place a rounded teaspoon of spinach-ceese filling on one end of a fila strip and fold over one corner.
- Continue folding from side to side, making a triangle.
- Place on the baking sheet.
- Proceed in this manner, making pastry triangles with remaining fila and filling.
- Brush tops of triangles with melted butter.
- Bake at 350F for 15 minutes, or until goldn brown.
- Serve hot.
- They can be made ahead and frozen. When I do this I cook them for only 10 minutes - a pale golden - so that they get darker when reheated.
- To freeze, let cool and freeze on a tray so that triangles are not touching.
- When frozen, they can be moved to an airtight container and frozen for up to a month.
- When ready to serve, remove from the freezer the number you want and thaw.
- Reheat in a 350F oven for 15 minutes or until hot through and crispy.
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