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The Musette: vegan green pie
This is a quick and easy recipe which uses (vegan) pre-prepared filo pastry sheets, plenty of greens and some vegan cheese. Of course, you can also easily make a non-vegan version.
Ingredients (serves 4 hungry cyclists)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- 150g (2 cups) kale, chopped
- 200g (3 cups) cooked spinach (I used frozen)
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1 fat clove of garlic, minced
- 250g (1 cup) vegan ricotta
- 2 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed organic lemon juice
- 100g (3 1/2 oz) vegan feta cheese, crumbled
- 10 sheets filo (phyllo) pastry, defrosted
Method
1.Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/gas mark 5 (375°F/350°F fan).
2. In a medium-sized frying pan on medium heat, saute the onions and garlic in the olive oil until translucent (approx. 10 minutes).
3. Add the kale and cook until wilted, add salt and pepper and defrosted spinach (eliminate as much liquid as possible) and allow to cool.
4. Mix the salad onions with the ricotta, feta, nutritional yeast, nutmeg and lemon juice. Add to spinach mixture and thoroughly combine.
5. Using a non-stick circular or rectagular baking pan (depending on the size and shape of your sheets of pastry, layer at least six sheets of filo, brush each with a little olive oil. Place a damp cloth over the remaining sheets of filo dough so they don’t dry out.
6. Pour the spinach mixture into the middle of the filo dough in the pan and level. Fold up the hanging edges of the filo sheets, then brush with a little olive oil. Cover with the remaining four sheets, tucking them well into the sides of the pan. brush a little olive oil over the top sheet.
7. Bake for 35-40 minutes, until the top is golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature before serving with some salad and my tomato and chilli jam.
8. This will sit happily in the fridge for a couple of days but it rarely hangs around that long.
looks delicious, thanks for sharing the recipe
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My pleasure
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It looks yum. 👍
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Thank you
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99% for that one. You lose a point for the chilli jam. Chilli of any kind would totally kill that or any dish for me!
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It’s not too hot, think tomatoes with a bit of heat.
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I really don’t do much cooking these days. It’s not much fun for just me, my self, and I, but this does look really good.
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It’s very tasty and easy to do.
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Looks wonderful! 🙂
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Thanks Jeff
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You make it look so easy! 🙂
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It is!
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Looks similar to the Greek spinach pie, that I love 💘
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I think you’re referring to Spanakopita, the recipe is similar but doesn’t use either kale or (vegan) ricotta.
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Spot on.
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another fine recipe that I am saving as we are going to get more “green” stuff from our farmers’ basket these coming weeks with the fall season.
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Let me know how you get on
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