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Recipe: Spanakopita (season finale)

The recipe for this delectable pie comes from years of research (read: eating a piece of every spanakopita I came across) and months of recipe testing. It’s not a wholly authentic recipe, as I have zero Greek heritage or cultural connections, but it is as close as I felt I could get to the perfect genuine Greek spanakopita. It’s the perfect balance of a golden, flaky, buttery crust, that is sturdy enough to hold its own against a rich, robust and flavoursome filling of spinach, herbs and cheese.… Read More Recipe: Spanakopita (season finale)

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Spanakopita series: episodes 4, 5 and 6 (recap)

At this point in my Spanakopita Test Kitchen journey, I was losing enthusiasm. I was still keen, however, to make my own phyllo.

I had looked at a recipe for authentic spanakopita complete with homemade phyllo, which showed the author’s mother rolling bedlinen-sized sheets of dough so thin you could read through it, using an obscenely long and thin rolling pin, before carefully rolling up logs of pie that curl into a silver tapsi for baking.

I am not a Greek yiayia, do not own said rolling pin or a tapsi, and figured my chances of rolling phyllo using this method were slim to nil.… Read More Spanakopita series: episodes 4, 5 and 6 (recap)

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