Categories: Sandwiches/Wraps
Ingredients
- 1 box filo pastry, thawed overnight (if frozen) – mine contained 18 sheets
- 50g-70g feta cheese, crumbled
- 1 tablespoon white sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds
- Cooking spinach:
- 500g baby spinach, washed and dried
- 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
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- 1 bottle of cooked spinach (about 500g) – if you’re lazy like me
- Glaze:
- 40g butter, melted (leave some for oiling the baking pan)
- 1/3 cup natural yogurt or milk (I use yogurt)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 egg
- Topping glaze:
- 1/8 cup yogurt or milk (I use yogurt)
- 1 egg
Directions
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you’re using bottled cooked spinach you may skip this step 1. To cook spinach, heat cooking oil in a pan or wok. Add chopped onion and cook until fragrant. Add spinach, salt and pepper and stir well. Cook until the spinach has lost its volume. Turn off heat and transfer to a bowl. Let spinach cooled down for about 15 minutes.
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Once it has cooled down, use a strainer to strain off its juices. Place spinach in a bowl
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Add feta cheese into the spinach. Stir gently to combine.
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In a separate bowl, mix the glaze together and on another bowl, mix the topping glaze.
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Using a rectangle pan (mine is 9″x13″), brush pan on all sides and bottom with melted butter.
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Unfold filo and place on a dry flat surface. Cover filo with damp cloth as this dough sheet is very thin and dries off rather easily.
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Layer the first layer of filo pastry into the pan and brush with glaze. Continue this for 8 layers more; that is layer a sheet into the pan and brush with glaze until all 9 layers is used up.
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Because my filo box come with a total of 18 sheets, I halved it becoming 9 sheets as mentioned above.
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Add spinach+feta cheese filling and distribute evenly, leaving about ½ inch space on the edges and corners.
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Then top with filo and brush with glaze. Continue this for the next 8 layers (when you have used up all your filo sheet).
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Brush the top layer with topping glaze. Use a knife to cut into your desired shaped (I slice mine into squares). Lastly sprinkle black and white sesame seeds on top.
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. Bake at 180oC for 40 minutes or until the top is golden brown. Serves warm.