Spanakopita

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Spanakopita, a popular Mediterranean recipe, is best served up with tzatziki sauce. Learn how to make/prepare Spanacopita by following this comfortable recipe.
   
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• 1 lb Baby spinach
• 1/2 lb Feta, broke down
• 1 Stick plus 1 tbsp unsalted butter
• 10 Phyllo sheets, thawed if frozen
• 1/2 tablespoon Freshly, grated nutmeg
• Salt and pepper to taste
Melt 1 tbsp butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet on moderate flame, then cook spinach, stirring, until wilted and tender for about 4 minutes.
Remove it from the heat up and cool for about 10 minutes.
Squeeze handfuls of spinach to take aside as much liquid as possible, then coarsely chop it.
Place it in a normal bowl and stir in feta, nutmeg, table salt and pepper.
Preheat the oven to 375 degree F.
Melt the left over 1 stick butter in a little saucepan, and then cool.
Cover the phyllo stack with 2 overlapping sheets of plastic enclose and then a moisten kitchen towel.
Take 1 phyllo sheet from the stack and place on a work surface with a longish side, saving remain of the sheets covered up and brush with few butter.
Top with some other phyllo sheet and brush with more butter, cut down buttered phyllo stack diagonally into 6 strips.
Place a heaping tablespoon of filling up about 1 corner of a strip on end and then fold corner of phyllo all over to enclose filling up and to make a triangle.
Continue folding up strip, alike a flag, maintaining the triangle shape.
Place triangle, seam side down, on a large baking sheet and brush top with the butter and make more triangles in same way, utilising all of phyllo.
Bake triangles in center of oven until golden brownish for about 20 to 25 minutes.
Shift Spinach Triangles to a rack to cool.
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