Spinach Pies

Name: Spinach Pies
Yield: makes about 24 pies
Ingredients: 1 pound fresh spinach leaves; 1 large onion, chopped; 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; Salt and pepper; 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice; Juice of 1 lemon or 1 tablespoon sumac (see page 7); 14 ounces puff pastry; Flour

December 9, 2011

These little pies are a famous Lenten specialty; they are deliciously sharp and lemony. A good, commercial puff pastry will do very well for the dough. The pies are wonderful eaten hot and also good cold. You may use frozen leaf spinach instead of fresh spinach. Defrost it and squeeze out the liquid.

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