Feta & Red Onion Plait [Video]
This is one of my all time favourite veggie dinners...Crumbled feta, breadcrumbs, spinach and red onion all wrapped up in a golden pastry plait.
Servings: 4 to 6
Ingredients
- Oil for frying
- 1 Red onion finely chopped
- 2 x 200g (7oz) blocks of feta cheese (if you're going veggie, check it's a veggie one)
- 100 g (3½oz) fresh breadcrumbs
- 1 Tbsp dried Thyme
- 50 g (1¾oz) fresh spinach leaves coarsely chopped
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 3 eggs
- 30 ml (1 fl oz) milk
- Ground black pepper
- Sheet of ready rolled puff pastry
Instructions
- Heat a drizzle of oil in a large non-stick pan. Add the red onion and fry on a medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Crumble both blocks of feta into a large mixing bowl. Add the fresh breadcrumbs, dried Thyme, chopped fresh spinach, honey, 2 eggs, fried onion and milk. Season with ground black pepper.
- Give it a really good stir, working the milk and the egg through the ingredients until it is all absorbed and everything is thoroughly combined.
- Lay the puff pastry out on the worktop.
- Place the filling lengthways down the centre of the pastry - leave around a 5cm gap of pastry either side of the filling and around 3cm of pastry either end.
- Flatten the filling out a little and make sure it's evenly spread.
- Starting in the top left corner cut 1cm diagonal strips into the pastry from the filling outwards.
- Tuck the ends of the pastry over the filing. Fold the strips of pastry alternately into the middle crossing over each other.
- When all the pastry is folded up and the filling is encased, brush with beaten egg. Bake at 200℃/400℉ for 25-30 mins