A hearty spinach and cheddar pie that is suitable for the week

deleciousfood | April 29, 2025 | Cheese | No Comments

For a pie without the pressure, turn to pancake.

Although the pancakes can be made with a range of pasta, including a short house crust or a puff pastry purchased in stores, I opted here for a Filo pastry to create a light and puff pastry.

This recipe perfectly illustrates how the pantry staples can come together to create a generous and breathtaking dish – frozen spinach are cooked with onions, then bunk with thin potatoes and salted cheddar, locked in a shatter crust.

Once ready, the pancake can go directly from the oven to the table, served in the pan in which it was cooked. If you don’t have a oven test stove, just use a round cooking dish, or prepare the pancake on a baking sheet.

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Advice:

Slice the potatoes as finely as possible: This helps in uniform cooking. If you have a mandolin, it can help create uniform slices.
Use of fresh spinach: Frozen spinach is an excellent choice for creating economical healthy nights. If you use fresh spinach, you will need about 1 kilogram – whiten quickly, drain, extract the water, then add it to the onions as you would for deconted frozen spinach.
Thaw these ingredients during the night: The spinach and the filo pastry are better deflected during the night in the refrigerator.
Work with Filo pastry: Work quickly and keep the spare sheets covered under a damp towel to prevent them from drying. The torn or broken sheets are not a problem here, because the pastry is superimposed to create a robust and thick pastry base. The recipe requires a slight rotation of each filo sheet when laid in the pan – this guarantees that there is a quantity of uniform pastry to create the border of the cake. There is no need to worry too much about doing this too carefully or evenly. Filo leaves vary in size, but it doesn’t matter for this recipe, because the sheets are simply rides, the overhanging dough hitting to form the crust.
Option to use butter instead of olive oil: The brushing of each piece of pastry allows it to become more crisp in the oven. While olive oil is used here to create a lighter pie, the choice of fat really depends on you – you can also use melted butter for a richer flavor or opt for a combination of butter and olive oil for a result which is somewhere between the two.