Pascualina
Italian dish with onions, frozen spinach, defrosted, nutmeg.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- advanced
- Italy
Ingredients
- 3 onions
- 1 kg frozen spinach, defrosted
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 250 g cream cheese
- 6 eggs
- 4 sheets frozen puff pastry
- to taste olive oil
- to taste egg wash
Steps
- Preheat oven to 190°C.
- Sauté onions until golden.
- Add the spinach, cream cheese, nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste.
- Stir through until all the ingredients are mixed together.
- Put aside to cool slightly.
- Line a rectangular tray with puff pastry, ensuring the pastry reaches right up to the edge of the tray.
- Spread out the filling over the puff pastry.
- With a spoon, make 6 holes in the filling so you can pour in the whole eggs.
- Crack the eggs one by one.
- Pour into the holes.
- Cover the pie with more pastry, sealing the edges.
- Brush the pastry all over with egg wash.
- Bake in a hot oven for 40 minutes until the pastry is golden.
- Serve with roasted sweet potato and steamed green beans.
Adapted from “Pascualina”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.