Spanakopita - Greek Spinach-Feta Strudel - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1000 g fresh spinach, chopped (or 600g frozen)
    200 g puff pastry (one large sheet, or phyllo dough)
    250 g ricotta cheese
    200 g feta cheese (small cubes)
    50 g chopped walnuts (or almonds, or pine nuts)
    1 large red onion (chopped)
    5 -6 garlic cloves
    1 dash nutmeg
    1/2 teaspoon vegetable broth, granules
    1 tablespoon olive oil
    1 tablespoon melted butter
    1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Preparation
    Heat oil in a large frying pan (or skillet) and add chopped onion and minced garlic (adjust amount to your taste).
    Let fry until translucent.
    Add chopped spinach and let wilt.
    Season with nutmeg, vegetable broth granules, salt and pepper.
    Add ricotta cheese and stir to dissolve.
    Crumble walnuts to mixture.
    Add feta cubes and stir again.
    Let spinach filling cool for a couple of minutes.
    Meanwhile heat oven to 175\u00b0C and cover a baking tray with baking paper.
    Place puff pastry on baking tray and brush sides with melted butter.
    Pour cooled spinach mixture on pastry and cover two thirds of the pastry with mixture, leave half inch wide edges on the sides and bottom.
    Fold in bottom and sides and roll pastry to a strudel, seam side down.
    Brush with the rest of the melted butter.
    Bake for about 25minutes at 175\u00b0C until golden brown. After 15 minutes sprinkle strudel with sesame seeds.

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