Crispy Greek-style pie
Cooking time
Prep: 10 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4A crispy pie that you can adapt for your needs, add chicken or keep it veggie. A good fail-safe for your repertoire
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 250
- protein
- 13g
- carbs
- 23g
- fat
- 13g
- saturates
- 5g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 5g
- salt
- 0.3g
Ingredients
- 200g bag spinach leaves
- 175g jar sundried tomatoes in oil
- 100g feta cheese, crumbled
- 2 eggs
- ½ 250g pack filo pastry
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Method
- 1 Put the spinach into a large pan. Pour over a couple tbsp water, then cook until just wilted. Tip into a sieve, leave to cool a little, then squeeze out any excess water and roughly chop. Roughly chop the tomatoes and put into a bowl along with the spinach, feta and eggs. Mix well.
- Carefully unroll the filo pastry. Cover with some damp sheets of kitchen paper to stop it drying out. Take a sheet of pastry and brush liberally with some of the sundried tomato oil. Drape oil-side down in a 22cm loosebottomed cake tin so that some of the pastry hangs over the side. Brush oil on another piece of pastry and place in the tin, just a little further round. Keep placing the pastry pieces in the tin until you have roughly three layers, then spoon over the filling. Pull the sides into the middle, scrunch up and make sure the filling is covered. Brush with a little more oil.
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Cook the pie for 30 mins until the pastry is crisp and golden brown. Remove from the cake tin, slice into wedges and serve with salad.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2007
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I thought this recipe was a great idea for a vegetarian meal, but it lacked oomph. I don't like to muck around with a recipe when I use it for the first time but next time I will definitely season it well, and maybe even add a pinch of chilli. Think it could benefit from extra feta cheese too. However nice and quick and easy to make.
Have made this on a number of occasions and the family love it. I usually halve the amount of sundried tomatoes and add toasted pine nuts to it. I also grate some nutmeg into the mix. Delicious! Have started making individual ones wrapped in puff pastry which seem to be more filling than the filo version. Usually serve it with a cherry tomato salad in a balsamic vinaigrette which goes really well with the pie! A definite keeper!
I made this for a special Dinner with my boyfriend on New Years' Eve. I LOVED IT! (served with lemon) He said it was "too green"
Tried it cold today and it didn't taste as good.
Decided it's best served hot and possible better as a side dish with a risotto or something else
Very very nice recipe - will definitely make it again... and again!
This was enjoyed by my daughter and her boyfriend who are vegetarian and the rest of the family who aren't! I doubled the recipe and took note of everyone's feedback which was all helpful. I used frozen spinach in place of fresh, this is a cheaper option and used more filo to hold the extra contents.
I will do this again Loved it!
