When I asked my friend what I should prepare for Easter, she was like, please do something to use those cooked eggs. I never know how to use them. There’re just too many…
Torta Pasqualina is a tipical Ligurian Easter dish. Mine is a bit fake. Somewhere in between my quiche recipe and spinach strudel. Normally the recipe uses filo pastry made of flour and olive oil. And there are artichokes, marjoram, onions and of cours lots of grana added to the base. Oh, and usually it’s a round tart. But hey, have fun playing with this one!
Ingredients (serves 4):
- 1 pack puff pastry (rectangular)
- 2 eggs
- 100 g ricotta
- 150 g feta
- 400 g fresh spinach
- 1 big garlic clove
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 4 cooked and pelled eggs
- nutmeg
- pepper
- egg yolk/white for brushing
Preparation:
- Finely chop garlic clove. Heat one tablespoon of olive oil and quickly saute garlic (be careful not to burn it). When it starts to smell nicely, add fresh spinach. Cook until the most of the liquid has evaporated. Transfer into a strainer. Let cool and drain the excess liquid.
- Crumble feta using a fork, than mix with ricotta and eggs. Add spinach, season with nutmeg and pepper.
- Roll out puff pastry. Divide it in three parts lenghtwise, but don’t cut in.
- Put spinach mixture and cooked and pelled eggs in the middle part.
- Diagonally cut 2 cm wide stripes on both outer parts of the pastry.
- Fold the left and the right stripe towards the middle and press to stick. repeat lenghtwise to close up the pie.
- Brush with egg and bake at 200ºc (ventilation) from 20 to 25 mins.
This recipe was created as a part of a project for Spar Slovenija and their magazine Dobro zame.
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