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     My Spinach and Ricotta pies

Category   Entrees - Maindishes
Sub Category   None
Servings   8 portions
Preptime   45-60 min
Wine/Beverage
Recommendations
  Red or white wine or soft drinks or beer

Ingredients
Pastry- Short Pastry
600g flour
300g butter (vitalite light)
Pinch of salt
Cold water to mix
Filling for ricotta pie
500g ricotta
1 egg - Little milk to soften the ricotta
Parsley
 
Salt and pepper
Filling for the spinach pie
1 can 200g caponata - 1 can poppa 400g
Frozen Peas as much as you want - Frozen Spinach about 550g (about 8-10 cubes)
1 big onion sliced - 1 vegetable cube
1 teaspoon sugar
Olives about 4 tblspoons (chopped)
Salt and pepper - 1 can low fat tuna in brine 160g (drained)
Vegetable oil 1 tblspoon

Instructions
Method- Pastry Mix flour and salt, add butter in breadcrumbs. Add water to mix to form a stiff paste (dough). Leave aside. Grease 2 baking tins.
Filling ricotta pie- Mix ricotta, beaten egg, chopped parsley, sprinkle some milk salt and pepper.
Filling Spinach pie- Put the chopped onion, cube, frozen peas, oil and little water in a pan and simmer, till the onion is transparent. Add the frozen spinach, continue to simmer, add the poppa, sugar, caponata and olives, salt and pepper. Leave to simmer for some time on medium heat. When ready, add the tuna and mix together. Take it from heat and drained the spinach mixture, and let it cool. Meanwhile turn dough on to a floured worktop and roll out pastry. Place pastry into the 2 greased tins, one for the ricotta pie, the other for the spinach pie. First put the ricotta filling in one of the tins, so the spinach filling will cool. Cut another piece of pastry and roll it out to cover it. Now brush it with milk . When you drained well the spinach mixture, do the same procedure. Bake on 240c for about 1 hr or till golden brown. Enjoy --) Taste delicious!
Serving Suggestions
At lunch or at dinner


Originally Submitted
4/3/2015





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