"Small recipe book of traditional cuisine"

Hortopite

Ingredients for the pastry

 

 

½ kg flour

water

2 spoons of olive oil

salt

lemon juice

For the filling

 

 

spinach

dill

cumin

salt

pepper

olive oil

Preparation

 

We prepare the pastry with flour,  water,  oil, and lemon juice. We spread the pastry in a thin layer and we cut circles using a glass.

 

We boil the spinach and when cooked we chop them finely and we season them with the spices and the oil.

 

We add a tea spoon of the filling on the half of the pitta, we close it with the other half.

 

We fry the pitte in hot oil.

 

 The filling can vary adding some feta cheese.

 
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