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Banitsa with Spinach

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1kg flour
  • 1kg spinach
  • 300g. white brined cheese
  • 3/2 cupful of yogurt
  • 200g butter
  • 1 spoonful sunflower oil
  • 1 spoonful vinegar
  • salt

Directions

  1. Cook the cleaned and finely cut spinach in some of the butter.
  2. After having cooled, stir in crumbled cheese and yogurt.
  3. Knead a hard dough from the flour, oil, vinegar, salt and water.
  4. Roll into five sheets (1kg of ready rolled pastry sheets may also be used).
  5. Line a baking dish with butter, place 1 sheet on the bottom and top with the spinach filling.
  6. Add a second sheet, filling and so on.
  7. Baste in a moderate oven.
  8. The same recipe may be used for making banitsa with leeks.