5 Ingredients Mediterranean
By Jamie Oliver
40 mins
Not Too Tricky
serves 6
About the recipe
Across Greece you’ll find wonderful savoury pies bursting with spinach, dill and feta, which inspired me to make this simple 5-ingredient variation. Heavy on the sesame, it’s a really beautiful thing.
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Ingredients
350g frozen spinach
500g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
2 bunches of dill (40g)
200g feta cheese
75g sesame seeds
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/gas 7. Defrost the spinach and squeeze out any excess liquid.
- Put the flour in a bowl with a pinch of sea salt, then gradually add 325ml of water, mixing with a fork as you go. Once it comes together, use flour-dusted hands to knead until the bowl is clean and the dough is smooth, then transfer to a large oiled surface to rest.
- Finely chop the dill and spinach (stalks and all), then crumble over the feta and mix well with a pinch of black pepper.
- Stretch out the dough on the oiled surface to roughly 40cm x 60cm – I use my hands but you can use a rolling pin, if you prefer. Carefully lift the dough so half of it sits in an oiled 30cm x 40cm tray, with the rest overhanging.
- Evenly spread the spinach mixture across the dough in the tray, leaving a 2cm gap around the edges. Carefully fold over the overhanging half and press or twist the edges to seal.
- Rub the top with olive oil, then sprinkle over the sesame seeds, firmly pressing and patting them into the dough.
- Bake on the bottom shelf of the oven for 25 minutes, or until beautifully golden. Delicious hot, at room temperature or cold from the fridge.
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