Greek Spinach Pie (Spanakopita)

Steps

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  1. Put frozen spinach on a dry frying pan. Stirring, let’s warm the greenery on low fire until complete defrosting.
  
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  2. Peel onions and cut into cubes. Put vegetables in a pre-heated frying pan with vegetable oil. Periodically stirring, let’s fry onions on low fire until light golden brown.
  
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  3. In deep ware connect unfrozen spinach and browned onions.
  
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  4. This Greek Spinach Pie recipe is a homemade version of the traditional Greek spanakopita with a couple of twists. This version uses cheese: bryndza. Break bryndza with our hands into small crumbs and add to the pie filling. The key filling ingredients in a classic spanakopita recipe are spinach and feta cheese.
  
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  5. Wash dill and parsley, cut finely and add to the rest of the ingredients.
  
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  6. In a separate ware connect 2 chicken eggs and 50 ml of milk. Mix the mixture with a wire whisk until homogeneity.
  
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  7. Leave 2 tablespoons of egg-milk mixture to grease the pie, the rest of it add to the filling. Mix the ingredients carefully to make the filling homogeneous.
  
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  8. Roll half of the puff pastry into a rectangular layer with thickness of 3-4 mm. Put the dough in a heat-resistant form, covered with baking paper, forming sides with height of 1.5-2 cm. Above the dough put the even layer of a filling from spinach and bryndza.
  
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  9. Roll the remaining half of the dough into a rectangular layer 3-4 cm thick. Put the dough on the filling and carefully attach the edges of the pie, turning them inside. Use a sharp knife to cut the pie on square segments. Grease the Greek pie with an egg-milk mixture using a cooking brush.
  
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  10. Send the pie to a pre-heated to 180 degrees oven. Bake it until golden brown for about 25-30 minutes.
  
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  11. Cut the ready pie into portion pieces and serve in warm form. Baking can be supplemented with kefir or sour cream.
  
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  12. Bon Appetite!