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Spanakopita, Hand-Rolled Filo
Georgia Tsakiri
Pita maker, Fournos Kastanies, Ioannina, GR
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Spanakopita, Hand-Rolled Filo

2 h 30 min total90 min hands-onServes 8Hard

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The spinach is squeezed until it is almost dry, which is why the base is not soggy.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Long thin rolling pin, Large baking tray, Clean cloth, Pastry brush
Allergens
Gluten, Milk, Egg, Sesame
Method
27 steps · 22 photographed · 8 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 19 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Hand-rolled filo

Film

An olive oil and vinegar dough rested long, then rolled with a thin pin until the board shows through.

Frozen filo is dry and shatters into layers; hand-rolled sheet is elastic and bakes into something between pastry and bread.

  • Plain flour000 g
  • Olive oil000 g
Steps
8
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
60 min

Makes 6 sheets · use same day

Dough up to 1 day ahead; roll on the day

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Greens filling

Film

Spinach salted and wrung out, mixed with leek, herbs and feta and left to drain again.

Every gram of water left in the greens ends up in the bottom sheet. This is the step that decides the pie.

  • Spinach000 g
  • Leek000 g
Steps
7
Time
50 min
Hands-on
30 min

Makes 1.3 kg drained

Up to 1 day ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Plain flour000 g
  • Olive oil000 g
  • White wine vinegar000 g
  • Spinach000 g
  • Leek000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 19 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Feta grades, and why the brine matters

TECHNIQUE9:00

Rolling filo with a long thin pin

KIT5:00

Tray, oil and the bottom heat you need

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 27 STEPS

22 photographed · 8 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 22 of the 27 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 8 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: rolling the sheets thin without holes — step 16 of 27.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 21 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Georgia Tsakiri watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Salting the spinach and waiting twenty minutes

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Oiling between sheets, never buttering

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Scoring before baking, cutting after

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The dough hydration that lets it stretch thin without tearing, and how much liquid has to come out of the greens.

Written by Georgia Tsakiri. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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