Meera Sodha’s Recipe For Spinach And Feta Galette With Lemon And Pine Nut Salsa | Meera Sodha Recipes

The spinach and feta pie, AKA spanakopita, connected which this look is based is profoundly rooted successful Greek culinary history. So I astir apt shouldn’t person messed pinch it, but I did, because I’m a tinkerer. I wanted a batch of outpouring onions, you see, because, together, cooked greenish onions and spinach are a bittersweet awesome dream, particularly erstwhile they’re tempered pinch immoderate creamy ricotta. But then, to extremity it from getting excessively sleepy, I escalated nan caller herbs, kept nan crisp feta (I’m not a monster) and vanished it pinch a caller citrus and conifer seed salsa. Same same, but really rather a spot different.

Spinach and feta galette pinch citrus and conifer seed salsa

Prep 15 min
Cook 45 min
Serves 4

50g conifer nuts
Extra-virgin oliva oil
200g outpouring onions (about 2 bunches), greens and whites sliced and rinsed
4 ail cloves, peeled and finely minced
Fine oversea salt
1kg stiff spinach, thawed
25g caller dill, leaves and tender stalks, chopped
A grating of caller nutmeg
2 tsp dried mint
1 lemon, zest finely grated
200g feta, crumbled
150g ricotta
7 sheets filo pastry (270g)
1 tsp nigella seeds
60g parsley, leaves picked and very finely chopped

Put nan conifer nuts successful a ample frying pan, put complete a mean power and toast for astir 5 minutes, tossing each infinitesimal aliases so, until aureate each over. Tip nan conifer nuts into a bowl.

Heat 4 tablespoons of lipid successful nan aforesaid frying cookware and, erstwhile hot, adhd each nan outpouring onions, nan minced ail and a spoon of salt, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes, until nan onions person wilted and turned emerald green.

Add nan thawed spinach, navigator for 10 minutes, until each nan h2o has evaporated, past adhd nan dill and navigator for a further 2 minutes. Add nan nutmeg, dried mint, citrus zest, feta and ricotta, navigator for 2 minutes more, past return disconnected nan heat.

Heat nan oven to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6. Lay a ample expanse of baking insubstantial (about 60cm across) connected a worktop. Lay 1 expanse of pastry connected nan insubstantial and brushwood each complete pinch oil. Lay a 2nd expanse of pastry connected apical angled astatine 1pm, lipid that, too, past repetition astatine 3pm, 5pm, 7pm and each nan measurement astir until you’ve utilized each 7 sheets of pastry.

Spoon nan spinach and food substance into nan centre of nan apical expanse of pastry, and dispersed retired truthful it’s 20-22cm across. Pull up nan sides of nan pastry into nan middle, past scrunch nan edges backmost to time off astir of nan spinach operation exposed. Oil immoderate visible pastry again, past sprinkle complete nan nigella seeds and popular successful nan oven for 25 minutes, until nan pastry is golden. Remove and time off to remainder for 10-15 minutes.

Meanwhile, make nan salsa. Pare disconnected and discard each nan pith from nan zested lemon. Cut nan soma first into quarters and past into bladed slices, adhd to nan conifer seed bowl, past operation successful nan chopped parsley, 4 tablespoons of lipid and a quarter-teaspoon of salt.

When nan galette has rested, spoon nan salsa complete nan apical and serve.