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Spinach pastries - great party food
« on: March 22, 2015, 10:20:26 am »
Name of Recipe: Spinach pastries
Number of People: approx 30 or more if you are prepared to re-roll the pastry leftovers

Ingredients:
6 sheets frozen flaky pastry - thawed
1 egg whisked with 1 tbs milk

Filling -
Roughly chopped spinach leaves to fill the TM steaming basket or 250 g baby spinach
100g parmesan, cut into cubes
3 eggs
100 g feta, crumbled
250 g ricotta, I used light
1/2 tsp salt
Ground Pepper to taste
1/4 tsp nutmeg


Preparation:

Place the steaming basket containing the spinach leaves into the TM bowl, add 600 mls boiling water and cook until wilted Varoma temp/speed 3. If using baby spinach you will need 250 gms - just blanch briefly in boiling water.  Set aside & cool the TM bowl.
When the spinach is cool, squeeze out all liquid and chop the spinach finely.

Pre-heat oven to 190o fan forced. Line 2 large oven trays with either baking paper or silicon liners.

Grate the parmesan 5 sec/speed 8, set aside.
Beat the eggs 5 sec/speed 6 then add all remaining ingredients - spinach, feta, parmesan, ricotta, S & P and nutmeg.

Cut out 9 cm circles from pastry - 1 in each corner and 1 in the middle will give you 5 per sheet. I used a large fine bone china mug, the only thing I had which was 9 cm.

Place a slightly heaped teaspoonful of mixture in the centre of each pastry circle, fold over and press the edges together lightly with your fingers then follow up with the tines of a fork to seal them properly.

Brush with egg wash, place onto the trays and bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until golden & crisp.


Tips/Hints:

I couldn't be bothered rolling out all the scraps for the tiny pastries so I only did enough to make 1 large calzone to use up the remainder of the filling.  

You could also use a tortilla.  Place it into a warmed large frying pan until it is pliable, fill one half and fold over onto itself then pan fry yourself a quesadilla.

I put the first tray in to cook whilst I prepared the second tray as they do take a while to make.

I froze these tiny pastries on a tray then vacuum sealed them for a party I'm attending in May.

This is my take on a Julie Goodwin recipe from her book The Heart of the Home.  It's a Greek recipe given to her by a lady called Maria. By all means make your own short pastry as Julie Goodwin did but I like puff pastry nibbles.



« Last Edit: March 22, 2015, 10:30:38 am by judydawn »
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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2015, 11:21:07 am »
Judy they look and sound delicious. You are certainly being well prepared.
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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2015, 11:39:03 am »
I made them for a test run cookie, liked them so thought I might as well be prepared early.
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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2015, 02:36:24 pm »
Great for nibbles Judy 8)
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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2015, 09:54:27 pm »
These sound nice Judy.  I like puff for nibbles too.  ;D

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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2015, 02:10:33 am »
Bravo Judy -- It's a good thing I'm not there, or you'd have to bake another batch while I wiped the crumbs off my fat chin :)
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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2015, 02:59:42 am »
 Thanks everyone.  ;D Hi Helene, lovely to see you.
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Re: Spinach pastries - great party food
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2015, 03:05:21 am »
Now if I was there Helene she would be making 2 extra batches. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I love the new photo too Helene.
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