Puff Pastry Stuffed With Spinach And Cheese

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 lb puff pastry
• 1 lb fresh spinach
• 1/2 lb queso fresco or 1/2 lb ricotta cheese or 1/2 farmer cheese
• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• kosher salt
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 divide the puff pastry into 2 equal parts.
• 2 on a floured work surface, roll out 1 piece of the dough so that it is not too thin, but will cover a 8 x 8 inch baking dish (sides and bottom); grease pan and place rolled out puff pastry in dish.
• 3 rinse spinach and cook, over medium heat, with salt, for about 5 minutes to wilt; remove, drain, and chop spinach.
• 4 in a bowl, combine spinach with cheese and spread the spinach mixture over the pastry in the baking dish; quarter the cooked eggs and scatter them over the spinach.
• 5 on a floured work surface, roll out other piece of pastry and place over spinach mixture; use a fork to seal like a crust.
• 6 beat egg with sugar and brush over outer crust.
• 7 bake in a 350 degree f oven for 45 minutes.
• 8 serve with meat.