Spinach Pie

If you like spanakopita, you’ll love this spinach pie.  My Grandma Boden used to make a spinach pie (it didn’t have the cheeses in it), and I loved it, and I really love this one too.

Ingredients:

• 1 rolled 9 inch pie crust, room temperature
• Olive oil
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 lbs. frozen spinach, defrosted
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 c. small curd cottage cheese
• 6 oz. feta, crumbled
• 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350*.
2. Spray pie plate with cooking spray and unroll pie crust and place in pie plate.
3. Heat olive oil in a nonstick skillet over medium high heat; add onions and cook until they turn translucent and begin to caramelize.
4. Add the spinach, and cook for 5 minutes.  Drain spinach and onions well.
5. In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs, and then add remaining ingredients and add the spinach and onions.
6. Pour the mixture into the crust and bake for 90 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.

Spinach Pie