Veggie spiral filo pie
Wow your friends with this sensational savoury veggie filo pie! The butternut squash, spinach, tofu and feta filled pie will be just exquisite as the main course of your next dinner party.
Ingredients
For the filling
- 1 small butternut squash cubed and boiled
- 3 eggs
- 1 block firm tofu 300g
- 1 packet baby spinach leaves 250g
- 1 block feta cheese 200g
- A handful Superb Herb basil
- A handful Superb Herb parsley
- 1 onion finely diced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 lemon zest
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- Salt
- Black pepper
For the pastry
- 1 egg
- Olivado extra virgin avocado oil for brushing
- 6 filo pastry sheets thawed if frozen
- pinenuts handful
- sunflower seeds handful
- liquid honey a drizzle
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a flat baking tray.
- Heat some oil in a frying pan over medium high heat. Fry the onion and garlic until soft. Transfer to a food processor.
- Add the lemon zest, spinach, basil, parsley, nutmeg, tofu, cooked butternut squash, feta cheese, eggs and season. Blitz all of the filling ingredients until roughly smooth.
- Lay a sheet of filo on a clean bench and brush top with extra virgin avocado oil. Top with another sheet of pastry and repeat this process until you have at least 6 layers.
- Spoon filling along the edge of the width of pastry. Roll up like a sausage roll. Brush with egg wash.
- Fold the roll into a spiral and place in the middle of tray. Continue with the next filo roll, adding it to the tin until the tin is full.
- Brush the whole spiral with egg wash and sprinkle with pinenuts and sunflower seeds.
- Bake in the oven for 25–35 minutes until crispy and golden.
- Serve straight out from the oven with a drizzle of liquid honey.
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