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Sat Feb 6 18:37:35 1982
Non-meat recipes
Personally, I am very fond of meat. (end of flame) But I "swing both
ways", so to speak. Here is one of my favorite vegetarian main dishes:
SPANAKOPITA
Ingredients:
2 lb. FRESH spinach
1 lb. filo (thin pastry, sometimes called strudel leaves. Available
in specialty markets or sometimes in the freezer section of
a supermarket)
7 eggs
1/2 lb feta cheese
1 onion
olive oil
salt, pepper, oregano
butter (margarine won't work as well)
Prepare the filling: Wash all of the spinach well and put the
leaves into a large bowl. Sprinkle them heavily with salt and
then rub it into the leaves with your hands as you tear them into
small pieces. After a few minutes of this, the spinach will be
reduced to a quarter of its former bulk. Rinse the salt off
thoroughly and drain.
Beat the eggs, crumble the feta cheese, and mix together. Add
to the spinach. Chop the onion, saute it in some olive oil until
it begins to brown, and add that to the spinach also. Season
the mixture with lots of fresh-ground black pepper and a little
oregano.
Now choose a large, oblong casserole or baking dish (about 9-inch
X 13-inch should do it) and butter it. Melt about 3 to 4 table-
spoons of butter in a little pot and stack the filo on a flat
surface. Brush the top sheet with melted butter and fit it
into the baking pan, with the edges hanging over the sides. The
pastry sheets are very large and should extend quite a bit over
the edges, even after being fitted against the sides of the
pan. Continue in this fashion brushing each sheet with butter
and fitting it into the pan on top of the others. Turn each
sheet slightly so that the corners fan out around the pan rath-
er than being stacked on top of each other. Do this until you
have only two or three pastry sheets left.
Now pour the filling in and then fold over the ends of the pastry
sheets to cover it, brushing with a little more butter. You
should have sort of a strange-looking, wrinkled crust on top
when you finish. Butter the remaining sheets and place them on
top of the whole thing, folding them down to the size of the pan.
WIth a sharp knife cut through the top layers to the filling in
about three places. Brush the top with butter and bake at 375
degrees for 50 minutes. Cut into squares and serve very hot.
Serves 8 generously.
[From "The Vegetarian Epicure", by Anna Thomas, Vintage Books,
1972]
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