Rub 8 tablespoons of butter into the flour until it looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in half a teaspoon of mustard powder, 1/2 a teaspoon of paprika, a pinch of salt, and grated cheese.
Step2
Add a little bit of the mixture to water to bind everything to the dough. Knead it until it's smooth, cover and put in the fridge to chill.
Step3
Put the spinach and onion in a pan, cover and cook slowly. Season with salt and pepper.
Step4
Put the spinach into a bowl and cool a little bit. Add 1 cup cottage cheese, 2 eggs, beaten and 2/3 cup of cream.
Step5
Rolls out 2/3 of the pasty on a floured surface and use it to line a flat tin. Press it into the edges and remove excess pastry with a rolling pin. Put the filling in.
Step6
Preheat Oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and put baking tray in the oven to preheat.
Step7
Roll out the remaining pastry and cut it with a pasty cutter. Use a rolling pin to lay it over the pan.
Step8
Brush with beaten eggs, press the edges together and trim off excess pastry. Brush the pastry with egg glaze and bake on the hot baking tray for 40 minutes.
Tips & Warnings
for a healthier recipe, use low fat cottage cheese and low fat cheese
on 12/11/2007
This was quite easy to make and kind of fun...I'm trying to make my boyfriend eat less meat and he reports this was very filling, though the word "flan" through him off (dessert for brunch? he was quite excited until I said spinach) Anyway the only substitution I made was mozzarella for cheddar and only two egg yolks... went well with cantaloupe on the side.
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Healthygirl78 said
on 12/11/2007 This was quite easy to make and kind of fun...I'm trying to make my boyfriend eat less meat and he reports this was very filling, though the word "flan" through him off (dessert for brunch? he was quite excited until I said spinach) Anyway the only substitution I made was mozzarella for cheddar and only two egg yolks... went well with cantaloupe on the side.