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Spanakopita

Name: Spanakopita
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 150g Feta cheese; 2 Frozen puff pastry sheet; 1/2 Onion; 1 Egg; 3 tbsp Olive oil; To taste Dill

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Spinach and feta cheese wrapped and baked in phyllo pastry — appealingly crisp and flaky.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

A traditional Greek pie wrapping spinach and feta cheese in many layers of paper-thin phyllo pastry before baking. It also serves as a fasting dish eaten during Greek Orthodox fasting periods (when meat and dairy are avoided in certain forms), while also being an everyday favorite for breakfast or snacks. It's made as one large pie or as small individual triangles, and is a common item at street stalls and bakeries alike.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Walking past a bakery in Athens, the fragrant smell of butter and spinach from freshly baked spanakopita drifts out onto the street — a familiar morning scene.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Spinach 2 bunches
Feta cheese 150g
Frozen puff pastry sheet 2
Onion 1/2
Egg 1
Olive oil 3 tbsp
Dill To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the spinach, squeeze out the liquid well, and roughly chop. Mince the onion and sauté.
In a bowl, mix the spinach, onion, crumbled feta, egg, and dill.
Line a pan with pastry sheet and fill with the mixture.
Cover with another pastry sheet, sealing the edges firmly.
Brush the surface with olive oil.
Bake at 375°F (190°C) for about 30 minutes until the surface is golden to finish.

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