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Pascualina

Italian dish with onions, frozen spinach, defrosted, nutmeg.

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

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C.
  2. Sauté onions until golden.
  3. Add the spinach, cream cheese, nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Stir through until all the ingredients are mixed together.
  5. Put aside to cool slightly.
  6. Line a rectangular tray with puff pastry, ensuring the pastry reaches right up to the edge of the tray.
  7. Spread out the filling over the puff pastry.
  8. With a spoon, make 6 holes in the filling so you can pour in the whole eggs.
  9. Crack the eggs one by one.
  10. Pour into the holes.
  11. Cover the pie with more pastry, sealing the edges.
  12. Brush the pastry all over with egg wash.
  13. Bake in a hot oven for 40 minutes until the pastry is golden.
  14. 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.

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