Recipe: Tasty Spanakopita (veg) traditional Greek pastry

Spanakopita (veg) traditional Greek pastry.

You can have Spanakopita (veg) traditional Greek pastry using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spanakopita (veg) traditional Greek pastry

1. Prepare 10 of phyllo pastry sheets.
2. You need 1 bunch of spinach rinsed, drained and chopped.
3. You need 1 of Onions diced.
4. You need 4-5 cloves of garlic chopped.
5. You need 1 tbsp of olive oil.
6. You need 1 of spring onion chopped.
7. It's 100 grams of cottage cheese.
8. You need 1/2 Cup of melted Butter.
9. It's 1 tbsp of black pepper.
10. It's 1 tbsp of mix herbs.
11. It's to taste of Salt.

Spanakopita (veg) traditional Greek pastry step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a square baking tray with cooking spray. Heat olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Saute onion, green onions, and garlic until softened and just starting to turn colour Add chopped spinach..
2. Saute until spinach is warmed, about 2 minutes or so. add salt,black pepper and mixed herbs.add cottage cheese. Keep aside..
3. Melt the butter in a small sauce pan. Layer one sheet of phyllo into the prepared Grease tray. lightly brushing with the melted butter Now, repeat with 4 more sheets. fanning them in the tray so they overlap. Add the spinach mixture and spread evenly..
4. Fold in all four corners of the phyllo. you can layer the 5 remaining sheets (buttered in between each sheet) and just neatly tuck in the edges. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. If the top is browning too quickly, cover loosely with foil mid-way through the baking process. The top should be golden and the filling warm inside. Test with a knife.Let stand for 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving..