Thursday, August 14, 2008
Spinach cookies
Ingredients
For dough:
2 cups of wheat flour
125 grams of baking fat, sliced
yeast (use suitable amount for 2 cups of flour, according to directions of yeast producer)
1/4 cup of milk or water
1 spoon of sugar
pinch of salt
1 egg
For stuffing:
300 grams of spinach leaves
200 grams of feta cheese, cubed
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 spoons of olive oil
fresh grounded black pepper
How to make Spinach cookies
In a cup mix milk with sugar and 1 spoon of flour, add yeast, mix well, and put it in warm place, for example near cooker where you cook something else
Sift flour to a bowl
When the content of cup grows to fill whole cup add it to flour, mix it, then add baking fat, slice by slice and kned everything together
when you have smoth dough, put it in the fridge for 1 hour
Meanwhile, you can prepare stuffing, heat the oil in the frying pan, add garlic, add spinach leaves, when the spinach is cooked, add feta cheese, mix well, flavour with black pepper
After 1 hour, take out the dough, cut it in half, roll out, about 4mm thick, cut in squares
Blend egg in separate dish
Place spoon of spinach-cheese mixture in the middle of each square, bruch edges with egg, fold in half, close carefully edges
Place cookies at the baking tray, bruch tops with egg
Bake in perheat oven, about 200 degrees, till golden brown
