Spanakopizza
Team: Team Eleven
Host School: Milton Town School DIstrict
Age Group: High School
Ingredients
Filling
- 2 Onions chopped
- 6 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup green onion chopped
- 500 g fresh spinach
- Juice from one lemon
- 3 cups crumbled feta cheese
- 4 eggs beaten
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ cup dried oregano
- 1 cup grated parmesan
- 1 cup grated asiago
- ½ cup chopped gruyere
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup sundried tomatoes
Pizza dough
- 1 package instant active dry yeast
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 ¼ cups cold water
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 ¼ cups flour
- 1 cup flour
Basting
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp sea salt
Garnish
- fresh tomato slices
- fresh parsley
Preparation Instructions
Dough-
- Dissolve yeast in 1 cup warm water in a small bowl; let stand 5 minutes.
- Combine 1 1/4 cups cold water, oil, sugar, and salt in a large bowl; stir with a whisk.
- Add flour to large bowl with water mixture.
- Add yeast mixture to bowl. Mix with hands in bowl until dough forms.
- Put dough on floured working surface and flatten with rolling pin. Cut into ~6”x4” rectangles.
Filling-
- Chop the onions and green onion and saute with spinach in olive oil on medium high heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- When spinach becomes limp, take pan off heat and add lemon juice. Allow time for the mixture to cool.
- In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, cheese, sundried tomatoes and nutmeg.
- Once the spinach and onion mixture cools, add it to the large mixing bowl and stir until combined.
Finishing-
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Break and mix one egg in a small bowl.
- Melt butter together with minced garlic in a small bowl in the microwave.
- Heat up marinara sauce on the stovetop.
- Use a small spoon to put a spoonful of filling on one side of the dough rectangle.
- Dip two fingers in the egg and put egg on the edges of the dough rectangle.
- Fold the dough over the filling. Press to seal.
- Cut corners off the dough.
- Fold the edges up.
- Coat a fork in flour. Press the fork against the edges of the dough. Make sure the spacing is even.
- Place the spanakopizzas on a baking sheet covered with butter.
- Use a basting brush to coat the tops of the spanakopizzas with the garlic butter mixture.
- Place in oven for about 35 minutes or until golden
- brown.
- Take out and plate. Put parsley and tomato slices on top for garnish.