Spinach Cheese Triangles

This is my take on the Greek dish Spanakopita ~ similar flavours and nutrition yet super quick and easy. Great for dinner, picnics and school lunches...


As much as I love filo pastry... all pastry in fact is pretty good... I love the ease and quickness of ready rolled puff pastry...





I have discovered this great brand, Careme Pastry... they do short crust and puff pastry that are gorgeous and without any of the trans fats and baddies of some of the other brands...




I keep a couple of packets of pastry in the freezer to make up speedy lunches or dinners

Pies, pasties, quiches

Sweet or savory... ready made pastry can save you loads of time...

And when the quality is there you can take this short cut guilt free!!!

 This is a relatively loose recipe in that you can tweek and change to match the season or the fridge!

The basics are a fresh cheese... like quark, feta or cottage cheese... eggs... herbs and leafy greens, like kale, spinach, chard or collards. If you use quark or cottage you need to season the mix with salt ~ the feta is salty enough...







Older leaves of chard or spinach are best blanched and squeezed a bit to remove excess water... but if you are using young leaves you really can skip this step.

 Spinach Cheese Triangles

You will need...

2 big handfuls of baby spinach or other leafy green

2 eggs or 4 small bantam eggs which is what had from our girls...

100g of feta, or quark or cottage cheese

2 packets of Careme puff pastry ~ defrosted
a small handful of basil or other herbs ~ dill, parsley or thyme







To make...

This is really so easy ...

first heat your oven to 200c

All you do is crack your eggs in a bowl... crumble in your feta, coarsley chop your spinach and basil

                                                                                                                                          

and mix...

From here all you do is cut the pastry into triangles... like so....

Then spoon on about a heaped tablespoon of spinach mix... the amount depends on the size of the pastry triangle that you have cut...

 


Then fold over the pastry and fork down the edges...

 I make 8 triangles per Careme packet with a generous scoop of spinach mix...

Bake these lovelies at 200c for about 20 minutes or until golden brown...

this is a simple salad of wild rocket and vine ripe tomatoes

dressed with olive oil and a crack of salt

What I do that is a bit sneaky is I make up a stack of these... we have them for dinner with salad AND then the leftovers go into the freezer for whipping out for school lunches....

If I have more mix than pastry I add a few more eggs and in an oiled dish bake a spinach slice...

Any way that is all for this post... I hope you find this recipe as much a saving as I do!

yours,

Honey Lady