Name: Spinach, feta, mint and pine nut filo parcels
Yield: Makes 8 parcels
Ingredients: 12 mint leaves, shredded; 150 g butter; 100 g pine nuts; 500 g small-leaf spinach (don’t bother removing the stalks if the leaves aren’t too large); 3 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds (I used a mixture of black and white); 16 sheets of filo pastry, about 30xl2cm; 200 g feta cheese, roughly broken into small cubes

Preparation info

Makes
8
parcels

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Vegetables

By Peter Gordon

Published 2007

About

These snacks can be found throughout Turkey and Greece in one form or another. You’ll find filo spirals filled with a mixture like this and sprinkled with nigella seeds on the streets of Istanbul, and similar triangles in the Greek shops in Melbourne. They are great eaten on the run, as part of a picnic, or as a first course with a green salad. You can make the mixture up to 2 days in advance.