Triangular pies with spinach and pine nuts
I stumbled upon a recipe for Fatair with spinach or Fatayer bil Sabanigh. The dish belongs to Lebanese cuisine about which I know nothing, and the name sounded complicated to me, and in fact it is a pie in the shape of a triangle with spinach and feta filling, with the addition of pine nuts and pomegranate syrup. Very interesting taste.
Preparation steps
- Stir the yeast in lukewarm milk. Pour flour and salt into a mixing bowl, then add whipped yeast, water and oil. Knead the dough until it becomes smooth, it does not have to be kneaded for a long time. Cover and leave in a warm place to rise.
- Finely chop the fresh spinach leaves, as you would cut primrose leaves for soup. Chop the onion into the smallest pieces. Put spinach and onion in a small bowl, add salt, mix everything well and leave for about 20 minutes to release the juice. Drain as much as possible.
- Mix olive oil, pomegranate syrup and lemon juice, then add a little pepper. Pour in the spinach.
- Mix pine nuts and mashed feta cheese.
- Divide the dough into 12 balls, roll each on a floury surface into a circle half a centimeter thick, pour the finished spoonful of filling in the middle. If you want to divide the circle into three equal parts, fold those three curves towards the middle, and use your fingers to make the edges. It's like making small seams by pinching two parts of the dough, to finally get a triangle and a Y-shaped seam.
- Arrange on a tray lined with paper, drill each triangle with a fork in a couple of places, coat with olive oil and bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C, for about half an hour or until they get a nice yellow color.
- The origin of the recipe. Tried Maslinka.
Serving
Pomegranate syrup, if not available - buy pomegranate juice with sugar, and add a little lemon. I squeezed 100 ml of juice from one large pomegranate, and added two tablespoons of sugar, cooked for about 15 minutes. It would take more to make the syrup thicker. I didn’t add lemon because the pomegranate I bought was sour anyway. Less than two spoons of syrup went to the filling, and we all sipped the rest, the children really liked it. It seems to me that the syrup gives a really good shape to the whole filling.
