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  • Serves 2
  • 50 minutes
  • Difficulty Medium
  • 8 Ingredients

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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

  1. Thaw the puff pastry and the frozen spinach. Once the spinach is thawed, squeeze out all the water from it and set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Spread the spinach mixture onto the pastry sheet. Make sure you don’t go over the pricked border. Crumble feta cheese over the spinach.
  6. 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.

  • I love borek especially with cheese, meat or apple. I haven’t tried spinach and feta.

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  • Thanks for sharing. Spinach and fetta is always a good combination.

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  • I have never heard of borek but I would enjoy this one.

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  • I love this combination of ingredients thanks for sharing this one

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  • I am a pastry lover!

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  • Borek is so good for lunch and feta and spinach is a favourite food.

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  • Love your borek,look’s delicious!

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  • Yum. I love boreks and I love the spinach and fetta combo.

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  • This seems like a great healthy alternative to using larger amounts of pastry that’s required to wrap them normally. Thanks for sharing.

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  • oooh different

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  • I can smell it from here. Delicious!

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  • it really would be great to make these. so easy but so rewarding. lovely combination of ingredients

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  • Thanks for sharing this recipe

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  • I like the sound of this, thanks for sharing.

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  • this looks healthy! thanks for the great post

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