Spanaki Psimeno

"This recipe is Greek in origin and was originally posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. And inspired by Summerwine's fabulous photograph, I've finally got round to making it! I must admit that when posting I didn't realise just how much spinach this recipe uses; we're talking serious Popeye territory. I found I hadn't bought enough spinach and had to supplement fresh with frozen. But it worked fine. Summerwine's comment below about salt is absolutely spot on. I made this without salt and have updated the recipe to delete this ingredient. The recipe was 'borrowed' from Recipes4us.co.uk."
 
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photo by Summerwine photo by Summerwine
photo by Summerwine
photo by Summerwine photo by Summerwine
Ready In:
55mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F, gas mark 4 and grease a shallow ovenproof dish.
  • Heat half the butter in a large frying pan and sauté half the spinach for 3-5 minutes, stirring constantly; drain in a colander, and press down with the back of a spoon so that most of the liquid is forced out; set aside and repeat with the remaining butter and spinach.
  • Place the drained spinach in a large mixing bowl together with the chopped dill, and Feta cheese.
  • In another bowl, beat together the eggs, flour and pepper; then add to the spinach mix well.
  • Spread the spinach mixture evenly in the greased dish and cover with the slices of Gruyere cheese; bake for 30 minutes until cheese is melted and the spinach mixture has set; serve hot.

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Reviews

  1. EDIT: 28 May 2006....Totally 5+ stars!! Since you have revised the recipe it is not nearly as salty. This is certainly a keeper. I still halved the recipe and followed the new directions which resulted in a fantastic spinach dish. At the table I couldn’t resist a little squirt of lemon juice that just gave it a bit of zing! Thank you Mrs B!.... Perfection! :) /April 19 2006...I love spinach and just had to give this a try. I did halve the recipe because I didn’t have that much fresh spinach and used 3 small eggs. It made 4 servings as a side dish or 2 servings as a vegetarian main course and was delicious! The only criticism I have with this recipe is that it was too salty which is why I gave it 4 stars. I love salt, but next time I will leave the salt out due to the saltiness of feta and gruyere it doesn’t need any more. Wonderful dish that is also good cold as well. I will certainly be making again!
     
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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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