Filo pastry with spinach & cottage cheese filling

This recipe is so delicious . you might think it is heavy calorie meal but we made twists that makes it more nutritious , delicious , low caloric and low fat .Once you try it you will love to repeat it often .

Ingredients :

  • 1 Filo pastry backet

  • 250 gm cottage cheese

  • 1 tablespoon oil ( for brushing the filo papers )

  • 1 cup of half cream milk

  • 1 egg

  • 1 tablespoon sesame seeds

  • 1 table spoon black seeds

  • 1/4 teaspoon black peppers

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

    Spinach filling :

  • 2 bracket frozen spinach 400 gm each

  • 1 large onion chopped

  • Juice of 1 large lemon

  • 1 cup fresh coriander chopped

  • 1 table spoon vegetable oil

  • 1 clove of garlic

Instructions :

  • To make the filling

  • In a large size pan heat 1 table spoon vegetable oil

  • add onions ,garlic, salt,peppers and stir on high heat for 2 minutes

  • add frozen spinach and stir on high heat until all water vapour and almost dry

  • add chopped coriander and lemon juice , stir and get it off heat and leave the mixture to cool

    To make the recipe :

  • using the remaining oil . wet your fingers with oil lightly and brush a suitable size oven tray

  • layer the filo pastry in the tray brushing lightly with oil by finger tips every 2-3 filo sheets till half the amount is done

  • In the middle add the cool filling and top it with pieces of the cottage cheese

  • Repeat layering filo sheets as before

  • In a small bowl mix milk , egg , salt and pepper

  • Pour the milk egg mixture on the filo pastry

  • Sprinkle the surface with sesame and black seeds

  • bake in moderately hot oven ( 200 c ) from down for 30 minutes or until surface is browned

This recipe is : low fat and if cottage cheese is substituted by tofu it is vegetarian