pat's Recipe

Spinach and Cheese Pie Recipe

Category: Vegetable

Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/4 cups chopped green onions
1 pound frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
Finely grated rind of 1 lemon
1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
6 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
1 1/2 cups whole-milk, small-curd cottage cheese
½ cup finely grated Romano cheese
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
8 sheets fillo dough
2 tablespoons melted butter

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degreesF.
2. Heat olive oil in 2-quart saucepan. Add onions and saute until tender, about 3 minutes. Add spinach and cook 1 minute. Remove pan from heat.
3. Stir lemon rind, parsley and feta cheese into spinach mixture. Combine cottage cheese, Romano cheese and egg in a small bowl. Stir until well blended. Add to spinach mixture. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg; stir well.
4. Scrape filling into a 9-inch pie plate or 8-inch square baking dish. Bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven.
5. Brush one sheet of fillo with melted butter, keeping remaining sheets covered with a cloth. Crumple fillo sheet into a nest shape and place on top of fillo. Repeat with remaining fillo sheets to cover filling.
6. Bake about 10 minutes, until fillo topping is browned.
Serves 6.