Open faced spinach & feta borek - Real Recipes from Mums

A tasty savoury treat for those who love pastry.

Ingredients (serves 2)

1 sheet Puff pastry
10 oz box Frozen spinach
1 teaspoon Cumin powder
2 cloves Garlic
2 tablespoons Chopped fresh parsley
Pinch Nutmeg
1/4 cup Crumbled feta
1 tablespoon Olive oil

Method

Thaw the puff pastry and the frozen spinach. Once the spinach is thawed, squeeze out all the water from it and set aside.
Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
Unfold the puff pastry sheet onto a lightly floured surface. Using the rolling pin, flatten and roll out the pastry a little. Then, leaving a small border all around the puff pastry sheet, prick the inside of the sheet with a fork. Pricking the pastry sheet will ensure it doesn’t puff up during baking. We only want the unpricked border to puff up.
Heat a pan with the oil. Add the garlic. When it sizzles, add the cumin powder to the oil and turn off heat immediately. Now add the nutmeg, parsley or oregano and spinach to the pan. Add salt and pepper (keeping in mind that the feta cheese is salty). Using your fingers, mix the ingredients together.
Spread the spinach mixture onto the pastry sheet. Make sure you don’t go over the pricked border. Crumble feta cheese over the spinach.
Bake in oven for 15 minutes.

Notes

Traditional borek (or burek) is similar to spanakopita – spinach encased in phyllo dough. This recipe is my take on borek. I made an open-faced pie. This way, you get more of the spinach filling and its quicker than wrapping the filling in the pastry dough. Once you thaw the puff pastry sheet, this is a really quick and easy dish to make.

68 Comments

- - mom103778 said
  - 04 Jan 2022
    10:07 am
I love borek especially with cheese, meat or apple. I haven’t tried spinach and feta.

- - mom414719 said
  - 22 Dec 2019
    2:16 pm
Thanks for sharing. Spinach and fetta is always a good combination.

- - MrsA said
  - 31 Mar 2019
    9:59 pm
I have never heard of borek but I would enjoy this one.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 25 Mar 2019
    8:01 pm
I love this combination of ingredients thanks for sharing this one

- - kjgarner said
  - 31 Jul 2018
    9:17 pm
I am a pastry lover!

- - mom93821 said
  - 20 Jan 2017
    7:07 am
Borek is so good for lunch and feta and spinach is a favourite food.

- - mom112217 said
  - 22 Dec 2016
    11:33 am
Love your borek,look’s delicious!

- - mom109229 said
  - 28 Jun 2015
    9:40 pm
Yum. I love boreks and I love the spinach and fetta combo.

- - mom70050 said
  - 12 Jun 2015
    10:58 am
This seems like a great healthy alternative to using larger amounts of pastry that’s required to wrap them normally. Thanks for sharing.
- mom93821 replied
  
  28 Apr 2019 , 6:41 pm
  Also good when pastry stock is low.
- - mom57808 said
  - 20 Mar 2015
    9:46 am
oooh different

- - mom57522 said
  - 30 Jan 2015
    11:53 am
I can smell it from here. Delicious!

- - mom94125 said
  - 10 Nov 2014
    8:55 pm
it really would be great to make these. so easy but so rewarding. lovely combination of ingredients

- - maureen3 said
  - 05 Nov 2014
    1:47 pm
Thanks for sharing this recipe

- - cloverstorm said
  - 18 Oct 2014
    12:35 pm
I like the sound of this, thanks for sharing.

- - mom94125 said
  - 13 Oct 2014
    5:53 pm
this looks healthy! thanks for the great post

- - Single Mum said
  - 26 Aug 2014
    4:13 pm
Thanks again for sharing

- - tilly said
  - 30 Jul 2014
    6:03 am
delicious, something new to try. Thanks

- - mle00 said
  - 28 Jul 2014
    8:05 pm
Is this a South African dish? It looks great! Like a deconstructed spinach and feta pastry

- - memo said
  - 24 Jul 2014
    2:31 pm
so totally different, never seen this

- - no1ladydj said
  - 08 Jun 2014
    8:53 pm
I fell in love with borek when I live in Turkey. It’s a delicious savoury dish, and there’s so much that you can use as a filling. Finely minced lamb with spices is a delicious variation.