Mar 7, 2015

Spanakopita Bites

I was in a baking mood. Along with Pizza Puffs, I also made spanakopita bites for social hour tomorrow.

Ingredients:

  • 24 won-ton wrappers (I use quartered egg roll wrappers)
  • 10 oz of frozen spinach, drained and defrosted
  • 1 cup of ricotta cheese (or cottage cheese, ground a bit in food processor)
  • 1 cup of crumbled feta cheese
  • (2 TBSP chopped green onion — optional)
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder, plus extra to taste
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • [and a sprinkle of black pepper, to taste]

Instructions:

  1. Once your spinach is thawed, preheat your oven to 350F.  
  2. Gently place the won-ton squares in a mini-muffin pan spritzed with olive oil or Pam.
    (For extra crunch you can also lightly spray the won-ton wrappers themselves with a little olive oil.) 
  3. Squeeze out the excess water from your spinach and combine with ricotta, feta, garlic powder, salt and pepper and mix well.  
  4. Spoon the spinach mixture into your won-ton cups
    (I used my small cookie scoop, maybe 1.5 tablespoons per cup)  
  5. Bake for about 8-10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the edges of your won-ton cups are toasty + golden brown.

Carole's Notes:

These are better warm, but still tasty at room temperature.
The recipe is lightly modified from http://peasandcrayons.com/2013/03/shortcut-spanakopita.html

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