Recipe: Perfect Spanakopita... flower
Spanakopita... flower.
You can have Spanakopita... flower using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Spanakopita... flower
- You need 350 g of fresh spinach.
- You need 150 g of feta cheese.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- It's 3 tbsp of breadcrumbs.
- It's of dill, parsley, spearmint.
- Prepare 1 packet of (2 filo sheets) store bought or homemade puff pastry.
- You need 1 of egg for brushing.
- It's of sesame seeds or black sesame seeds.
Spanakopita... flower instructions
- Spread out one of the puff pastry sheets and cut it into a circle. I use one cake ring as a guide..
- Cut out the puff pastry and place it in the baking tray..
- For the fillingwash the spinach thoroughly, blanch it and then let it strain for 5'. Then cut it and place it in a bowl together with the egg, the herbs, the feta cheese and the breadcrumbs. Attention! Make sure that the filling doesn't have any liquids. If necessary, add more breadcrumbs..
- Place about 2 tbsp of filling in the middle of the circle..
- Then place the rest of the filling around the circle, a little inwards from the edge..
- Cover with the second puff pastry sheet and press the edge all round to seal..
- Press carefully the middle of the circle with your hands so that you shape the center of the flower..
- Cut every three fingers as shown in the photo. Make sure that you don't start cutting from the center but from the end of the pressed part outwards..
- Twist the "petals" of the flower..
- And press lightly so that they spread out a little..
- Finally brush the center of the flower with egg and sprinkle just the center with sesame seeds or black sesame seeds. Bake at 180°C until golden brown..
Post a Comment for "Recipe: Perfect Spanakopita... flower"