Recipe - Banitza (Cheese-Spinach Cake)

Melted butter; (if you use
filo sheets)
1 Box of feta cheese
1 pound Frozen shreded spinach; very
well drain !!
1 pack Filo pastry; (keep under a
damp towel, dries very
quickly and brittles, OR
puff pastry.

Source :My grandmother Venoutcha Benaroyo Covo

I use filo or puffpastry dough, but still remember the large sheets of fine
dough my mother was preparing, they were so crunchy , Mmm !

Crumble the feta cheese, and mixe well with the spinach. (mother adds also
parsley) Place one sheet of filo in a round cake pan, brush with butter,
cover with another sheet, and repeat the procedure 34 times. Then spread
evenly One fourth of spinachcheese mixture, cover with 2 more greased filo, and
repeat. The top should be covered with 23 sheets of filo. Bake for about
2030 minutes to a nice golden brown crust.

Serve hot with plain yogurt.
Posted to JEWISHFOOD digest by "Viviane & Israel Barzel"
i_barzel@netvision.net.il on May 11, 1998