Albanian Vegetable Pie

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup oil, preferably olive oil
• 30 pastry dough, leaves (filo dough)
• 1 1/2 lbs spinach, chopped
• 1 cup diced feta cheese
• 1/2 cup chopped green onion
• 2 -3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Recipe

• 1 use a medium-sized round baking pan.
• 2 brush the baking pan with some of the oil.
• 3 start laying the pastry leaves inside.
• 4 first, lay two leaves, sprinkle or brush with oil, then lay two other leaves, and repeat the procedure until half of the leaves are used.
• 5 make sure that they overlap the edges of the pan by about 1 inch.
• 6 sprinkle spinach with salt (optional), and mix well by hand.
• 7 add the feta cheese, oil, onions, eggs and salt (optional)
• 8 spread the mixture over the already laid pastry leaves.
• 9 cover the spinach with the rest of the pastry leaves repeating the first-half procedure.
• 10 roll the hanging edges of the bottom leaves over the pie (like a pizza crust).
• 11 sprinkle top with oil
• 12 bake at 350°f for about 45 minutes, or until golden brown.
• 13 serve hot, accompanied with buttermilk, or beaten yogurt, thinned down in cold water or with chilled stewed prunes.