This Traditional Vegan Spanakopita is a fluffy pie dough rolled out, filled with Greek herbs and cooked on the wall of a hot oven, where it puffs slightly up, then settles down into warm and crunchy chewiness. My production of pies started in Greece many years ago under my mother's teaching.

Needless to say, I can proudly say that my mother makes the best Greek pies ever! One thing explained to me is that the dough, named phyllo (pastry) should be made up of a very thin layer and all the vegetables should be cut by hand, into small pieces. To be honest, up to date I am still struggling to master my mother's technique, regarding the Phyllo.

While I am often guilty of the "not thin" phyllo, my pies are successfully a delicious Greek treat.

What's Spanakopita

Traditional Greek Spinach Pie is a fluffy pie dough rolled out, filled with Greek herbs and cooked on the wall of a hot oven, where it puffs slightly up, then settles down into warm and crunchy chewiness. My production of pies started in Greece many years ago under my mother's teaching.

Needless to say, I can proudly say that my mother makes the best Greek pies ever! One thing explained to me is that the dough, named phyllo (pastry) should be made up of a very thin layer and all the vegetables should be cut by hand, into small pieces. To be honest, up to date I am still struggling to master my mother's technique, regarding the Phyllo. While I am often guilty of the "not thin" phyllo, my pies are successfully a delicious Greek treat.

How to make Vegan Spanakopita - Step by Step

Phyllo

Sift the flour in a bowl and add the olive oil, vinegar, salt and little by little the water. Knead around 10-15 minutes or put it in a kneading machine for 10 minutes. If needed add more water or more flour. Knead until you get a soft dough.

2. You separate in 4 small balls, cover and leave it to rest for 1 hour.

Filling

Wash all the greens and drain them.

Cut them into small pieces.

5. Put the salt and mix with your hands very well and leave it to rest so all the liquids will be released. After you drain them very well with your hands.

Add the olive oil, pepper, the flour, and the nutritional yeast into the greens filling, mix well and separate into 3 portions.

Phyllo roll out

Sprinkle corn flour is a clean surface and roll out each dough into phyllo. (as thin as possible).

Put oil in a pan and put the 1st phyllo, sprinkle little oil and add the 1st portion of greens.

Place the 2nd phyllo, sprinkle little olive oil and add the 2nd portion of greens.

10. Place the 3rd phyllo, sprinkle little olive oil and add the 3rd portion of greens. Place the 4th phyllo on the top.

Wrap the phyllo well around the pan. Pinch with a fork, sprinkle little oil, water and put it in the oven.

Heat up the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Bake for around 30-50 minutes until golden.

Let it cool, cut into pieces and serve.

How to Prep this in Advance

This Vegan Spanakopita is easy to make in advance just pop it in the fridge (covered) before baking up to 1 day in advance. Alternatively, you can freeze this and when it the time for cooking put it directly in the oven.

Tips:

Instead of homemade dough, you can use frozen pastry dough but the result will not be the same. This is one of those Greek dishes where the quality of the phyllo is very important, so I urge you to make your own.
Use cornflour to roll out the phyllo balls. It will make your job easier!
You can mix and match any greens you like.
Drain the greens very well.
You can use Vegan feta instead of nutritional yeast

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Vegan Spanakopita with Homemade Phyllo

This Traditional Vegan Spanakopita is a fluffy pie dough rolled out, filled with Greek herbs and cooked on the wall of a hot oven, where it puffs slightly up, then settles down into warm and crunchy chewiness. My production to pies started in Greece many years ago under my mother's teaching.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Greek

Keyword greek pies, spanakopita, vegan pie, vegan spanakopita

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 1

Total Time 2

Servings

Calories 400kcal

Author Penelopi

Ingredients

For the Phyllo

500 grams all purpose flour
½ cup corn flour
¾ cup olive oil
2 teaspoon salt
1 small cup warm water
3 tablespoon vinegar

For the filling

1 kg spinach
1 bunch parsley
1 bunch dill
1 bunch fresh onions
½ bunch mint
2 leeks
¼ cup nutritional yeast
3 tablespoon flour
4 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon black pepper
Pan: a medium one.

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