Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, feta & spinach quiche. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Feta (Greek: φέτα, féta) is a brined curd white cheese made in Greece from sheep milk or from a mixture of sheep and goat milk. It is a crumbly aged cheese, commonly produced in blocks, and has a slightly grainy texture in comparison to other cheeses. Feta is used as a table cheese, in salads such as Greek salad, and in pastries, notably the phyllo-based Greek dishes spanakopita ("spinach.
Feta & Spinach Quiche is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Feta & Spinach Quiche is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have feta & spinach quiche using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Feta & Spinach Quiche:
- Get Dough
- Make ready 210 g flour
- Take 1 egg yolk
- Get 70 g unsalted butter at room temperature
- Get Pinch salt
- Prepare 1/3 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 45 ml cold water (aprox. 5 tbsp)
- Get If you don't have time to make the dough, you can use a shortcrust from the supermarket, it works well too
- Make ready Filling
- Take 250 g spinach
- Prepare Small Handful chopped Mint
- Get 100 g feta cheese
- Make ready 2 large eggs + the egg white left from the dough
- Get 1 medium onion chopped
- Prepare 1 garlic clove chopped
- Prepare Pinch pepper
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Prepare Pinch Nutmeg or mixed spices
Feta is the most well-known cheese in Greece. It is a soft, white, brined cheese that is very nutritious and is an excellent source of calcium. Greek Feta: Traditionally made from sheep's milk, although sometimes a little goat's milk is blended in. Salty and tangy, with a lemony flavor, and usually rich and creamy, although versions with more goat's milk tend to be more crumbly.
Steps to make Feta & Spinach Quiche:
- Cook the spinach in a saucepan until it's soft and still bright green, you will know it's ready when it reduces its size and you can see the liquid at the bottom. Set aside with the lid on.
- In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking powder. Add the butter and mix it well with your fingers until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add the egg yolk and the water. Knead the dough until the ingredients are integrated. Leave it to rest for 10 minutes, wrapped in cling film in the fridge.
- In another bowl, break the feta into small pieces, I like to crumble it with my hands if the feta is not too soft. Add the spinach, drained and slightly cut into smaller bits. Season with salt and pepper, add the onions, the garlic, the mint, and the nutmeg, or mixed spices if you like more seasoning. Set aside.
- Stretch the dough on a sheet of baking paper, approximately 5 mm thin and enough to cover the edges of the tin.
- Put the tin (25 cm round tin) upside down in the middle of the dough, place one hand under the paper (between the surface and the dough), the other hand on the tin, lift altogether and flip. With the dough facing up, shape it inside the tin and make sure the baking paper is not trapped in a fold. Remove the paper carefully.
- Once all the edges are done, add the eggs, the egg white and, mix the filling once more, to bring all the ingredients together again, then pour it in.
- Place it in the oven at 200 degrees (fan) for 30 minutes or until you see the edges golden and the also the top. Enjoy!
Unfortunately, this cheese may be hard to come by because of the unpasteurized milk restrictions and high demand in its own country. A vegetarian version of mini sausage rolls but made with a spinach and feta filling. I used frozen spinach because it was a better buy than fresh at the time but the equivalent amount of fresh spinach, chopped and wilted, would do the job. Feta is a soft brined cheese characterized by few to no holes, a tangy taste and no skin. Feta cheese nutrition will depend on exactly what brand and type of feta you get.
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