Recipe: Yummy Filled Spinach Pies: Ftayer bi Sbanegh

Filled Spinach Pies: Ftayer bi Sbanegh. Apple Pie, Desserts, Tart Recipes, Deserts, Delicious Food, Blouses, Kitchens, Apple Cobbler, Tailgate Desserts. This pie is my take on the traditional Fatayer Bil-Sbanegh, individual triangles filled with the same filling as below and baked. It is much quicker to make one large pie, to cut in slices, instead of individual triangles and the taste is the same.

You can shape the pies as small or as large as you like. The filling is also quite versatile. The chopped onions are a must, but tomatoes are optional. You can cook Filled Spinach Pies: Ftayer bi Sbanegh using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Filled Spinach Pies: Ftayer bi Sbanegh

1. You need of For the Dough:.
2. It’s 3 cups of flour.
3. It’s 1/2 tablespoon of dried yeast, dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water.
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of water.
5. You need 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
6. It’s 1 teaspoon of salt.
7. It’s of For the stuffing:.
8. It’s 2 kg of fresh spinach.
9. It’s 1 of onion, minced.
10. Prepare 1/4 cup of vegetable oil.
11. It’s 3 teaspoons of sumac.
12. Prepare 1 teaspoon of pomegranate syrup, if available.
13. Prepare 2 teaspoons of salt.

Lebanese meat pies and spinach pies still hot from Sam's bakery were our breakfast treat. My sibs and I have been searching for a recipe for ever. Place a tbls of spinach filling on each piece. Press edges firmly with fingertips to seal completely.

Filled Spinach Pies: Ftayer bi Sbanegh step by step

1. In a large bowl, combine all the dough ingredients together, except the vegetable oil. Mix well..
2. Add the oil gradually while kneading until you obtain a firm, smooth dough. Add more water if needed..
3. Cover the dough with a kitchen cloth and leave it to rest for around 2 ½ hr in a warm place until it rises..
4. Meanwhile, start preparing the stuffing by washing the spinach, drying it and mincing it coarsely. Make sure to dry very well the spinach because too much moisture affects the dough when filled..
5. In a bowl, combine the minced spinach and minced onions with the sumac, oil, pomegranate syrup and salt. Mix well..
6. After the dough has risen, knead it again, with some flour on your hands. Divide the dough into big parts and roll each part on a lightly floured surface using a rolling pin. Cut the dough into small 8 cm diameter circles using a circular pastry cutter..
7. Put 1 tablespoon of the stuffing in the center of each circle. Hold the dough from 3 sides and fold it in the form of a triangle, press sides together to seal well. Lightly grease two oven pans with vegetable oil and place the pies on them; pinched side up..
8. Insert the pan in the oven and bake until the top and bottom of the pies turn lightly brown..
9. They can be served hot or cold..

These delicious, lemony spinach pies are perfect as maza (appetizers), or serve them with other Middle Eastern dishes. Be sure to stir the spinach mixture frequently so the juice doesn't separate. This version of the Greek spinach pie called spanakopita, known as banitsa in Bulgarian, layers everything on a A filling of spinach, feta cheese, and egg is mixed together and layered between buttered sheets of phyllo dough. Spinach fatayers are small triangular pies stuffed with spinach and other ingredients. They are perfect served as appetizers.