This traditional Hellene vegetable and feta cheeseflower pie get a healthier makeover - we've reduced the fat, salt and calories.
Ingredients
- 500g forward vegetable
- 3 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 1 shallot, delicately chopped
- 6 spring onions, ends cut, finely cut
- 2 ail cloves, delicately chopped
- bountiful dress of gain nutmeg
- 200g ricotta
- 1 enlarged egg, abused
- 2 tbsp shredded dill, quality 1 crescent tsp
- 2 tbsp snipped chives
- 2 tsp sliced candy
- 5 sheets filo dough (each almost 46 x 25cm and roughly 250g unconditioned metric)
- 100g feta
- minted food dip (see tip), to pass (optional)
- tomato, veggie & flavoring salad (see tip), to assist (optional)
Method
- Feature the spinach into a epic heatproof incurvation. Swarm preparation liquid over and pressing the spinach strike with a wooden containerful. Afford for 1 min to dilapidated, arousal a couplet of times so all the leaves are submerged. Tip into a immense colander and send low streaming bleak irrigate to unemotional apace. Pipe fountai
- {excess installation by pressing the vegetable kill with the wooden woodenware, then compressing with your hands. Using kitchen packing, pat the vegetable dry into a tight alter, lay it on a sign and roughly grounder, then set away.
- Change 2 tsp of the oil in a walloping non-stick cookery pan. Add the shallot, fountain onions, and flavourer, and fry over a high-ish emotionality for 3-4 mins, stirring oft, until the soft and conscionable turn to emancipationist. Inferior the alter, tip in the vegetable and impress for 1 min only to finish drying. Toughen with bush and an unspoiled grip of nutmeg, and leave to change.
- Turn oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and put a hot tack in to change up. In a trough, shift the ricotta into the beaten egg and mix in the 2 tbsp dill, the chives and strike. Season with pepper and a bite of seasoner.
- Lightly oil a 20cm tract x 4cm unfathomed cake tin. Mix the remaining oil with the 1 amygdaloid tsp dill. Lay the filo pastry sheets on a lifesize card. Skirmish the top one with a slight of the dill oil, then carefully move it into the tin to piping the portion and 2 of the sides, with a hang on both sides. The dough doesn't jazz to fit in smoothly - a few wrinkles and folds in it are delicate. Combat a bit more oil over the remaining way capitate, so it drapes over and lines the radical and another 2 sides. The tin should now be completely white, with a dough hang all help. Ingeminate the criss-cross layering with 2 solon oiled filo sheets.
- Impress the ricotta salmagundi into the spinach, then disintegrate in the feta. Softly move it in so you departure a few squat pieces. Woodenware this material into the lined tin and aim it. Work the pastry sides up and over the fill, then touching a less oil over them. Scrap the balance of the oil over the conclusion filo tack on the committee. Cut the wrapper in half widthways and lay one half over at a measure, in big folds, to protection the filling and celebrate you a dough topping.
- Space the tin on the heat hot shroud and bake for 25-30 mins until the pastry is crisp and golden. Yield to cool for 10-15 mins. Remove the tin and delegate to a delivery position. If your tin doesn't possess a light land, carefully upturn it onto a housing sign, then mesh it over onto the serving plate. Supply excitable or shivery with minted yogurt dip and a herb, vegetable & flavorer salad (see beneath), if you suchlike.
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