Baked Spinach Rolls (Turkish)

mrs brother · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject: Baked Spinach Rolls (Turkish)

Ingredients :

1 1/2 lb fresh chopped, or 8oz frozen chopped spinach
1 med onion, chopped
2 tbl olive oil
1/2 cup Feta cheese (or any salty low-fat cheese) crumbled
1 x egg beaten
1/4 cup chopped parsley
Salt
Ground black pepper
10 sht filo pastry
1/2 cup melted butter

Method :
Cook the spinach, if fresh, by washing it thoroughly, then placing the wet spinach into a large pan. Heat it gently until it begins wilts, stirring often. When thoroughly wilted, NOT boiled to a mush, press in a sieve to extract moisture. Put to one side. Dry the pan and fry the onion in the olive oil until transparent, then add this, the egg, parsley, cheese and a little salt and pepper to the spinach and mix thoroughly. Take a sheet of filo, brush with melted butter, and place a 'sausage' of the spinach filling along one edge. Roll the filling up in the filo. You need enough filling so that the pastry wraps around no more than two or three times.
Now curl the roll up like a flat 'snail' and place it on a greased baking tray. Continue until the pastry and filling are all used. Bake in a moderate oven (200 C) until golden brown. Serve hot as a filling snack..