Pita de spinaka (spinach pie for passover)

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 Eggs, beaten
4 Sheets matzoh Water, cold

Directions

SEPHARDIC COOKING; MARK

~Jewish, Turkish

1½ lb Fresh spinach

½ ts Salt

⅛ ts Pepper

¼ c Matzoh meal

2 tb Oil

1 tb Walnut, chopped

1. Wash the spinach well to remove sand and drain it. Coarsely chop the stems and leaves. Mix with the eggs, salt, pepper, and matzoh meal. Set aside

2. Moisten the sheets of matzoh with cold water, just enough to soften but not so much that they break up.

3. Rub a heatproof glass or metal baking dish, about 9x6x2", with all but 1 teaspoon of the oil. Put 2-½ sheets of the moist matzoh ~- big enough to turn up around the edges -- on the bottom of the dish. Add the spinach mixture and cover with remaining 1-½ sheets of the matzoh for the pie cover. Brush with the reserved 1 teaspoon of oil and sprinkle the walnuts over the top. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F oven for 30 minutes.

Serve warm, cut into generous squares or triangles.

VARIATIONS:

1. Mix ½ pound ground beef with the spinach, eggs, salt, pepper, and matzoh meal, and proceed as above.

2. Or chop ¼ pound farmer cheese and ¼ pound of feta cheese. Mix this with the spinach, eggs, salt, pepper, and matzoh meal, and proceed as for the spinach pie. This cheese dish could be (but is not, traditionally) eaten during Passover, but it is usually prepared for other days.

In my opinion, substituting sheets of matzoh in place of the fragile sheets of fillo (which are not kosher for Passover) is ingenious. It results in a different taste and is an admirable solution for the kosher kitchen.

Posted 10-20-93 by DAVID PILEGGI on F-Cooking MM by MMCONV and Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, Internet sylvia.steiger@..., moderator of GT Cookbook and PlanoNet Lowfat & Luscious echoes

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