Spinach Pie Recipe

Fatayer or Spinach Pie is a pizza-like foods eaten by the people of the Mediterranean. simboseh and fatayer are baked or sometimes fried doughs stuffed with minced meat and cooked onions or snobar (pine nuts).Fatayer is usually folded into triangles and unlike simboseh, it could be filled with spinach or za'atar.

Ingredients

easy dough - see dough recipe
8 cups spinach
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped tomato
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp citric acid
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp sumac
1/2 cup corn meal
flour to roll out dough
olive oil spray or brush to finish pies

Preparation

Combine the 8 cups of washed spinach with 1/2 tsp salt and let sit for 15 minutes, if using baby spinach do not chop, if using regular spinach then chop up first. Drain and squeeze out water from spinach and place in a bowl. Add next seven ingredients to spinach and combine. Roll out dough balls to 1/16 inch thickness and 6 inches in diameter, place 1 to 2 tbs of spinach mixture in middle and close dough like a triangle. Sprinkle corn meal on baking sheet and place triangles on sheet. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees, place pies in oven and cook for 8 minutes, then take them out and spray or brush them with olive oil, place back in oven for another 8 minutes. Serve warm or cold.

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Source - DedeMed