Pita with Buttery Spinach and Feta

 

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Buttery spinach and onions, wrapped in a thin oven toasted pita bread, scattered with crumbled feta

Ramp up your morning tea, or your lunch, with this hot savoury treat.

What could be healthier, and more delicious, than wrapping gorgeous wilted spinach and onions in an authentic Lebanese pita bread, toasting it, and sprinkling it with crumbled feta?

The lovely Lebanese flavours in the buttery filling will tantalise your taste buds long after you devour it, who knows, this dish may become a quick lunch that you return to time after time!

Yields1 Serving
 1 tbsp olive oil
 1 120gm bag spinach leaves
 ½ brown onion
 a small dash of pomegranate molasses
 juice of 1/2 a lemon
 ½ tsp sumac
 ½ tsp cumin
 ½ tsp ground coriander
 2 tbsp pine nuts
 50 g crumbly feta
Prep Time10 minsCook Time8 minsTotal Time18 mins
1

Heat your oven to 180 degrees.

2

Warm one foil wrapped Alamir Bakery Pita Bread per person in the oven while you prepare the filling.

3

Heat olive oil in a deep frying pan, sauté spinach and onion until wilted and buttery. Drain well.

4

Stir in pomegranate molasses, lemon juice, sumac, cumin, ground coriander and pine nuts.

5

Split the warmed Alamir Bakery Pita Bread, and heap one half up with the filling.

6

Put back together, turn the oven up to 200 degrees. Return the filled pita bread back in the oven for a further 5 minutes to warm through and puff up.

7

Crumble feta over the pita, and serve with tabbouli or a side salad.

Ingredients

 1 tbsp olive oil
 1 120gm bag spinach leaves
 ½ brown onion
 a small dash of pomegranate molasses
 juice of 1/2 a lemon
 ½ tsp sumac
 ½ tsp cumin
 ½ tsp ground coriander
 2 tbsp pine nuts
 50 g crumbly feta

Directions

1

Heat your oven to 180 degrees.

2

Warm one foil wrapped Alamir Bakery Pita Bread per person in the oven while you prepare the filling.

3

Heat olive oil in a deep frying pan, sauté spinach and onion until wilted and buttery. Drain well.

4

Stir in pomegranate molasses, lemon juice, sumac, cumin, ground coriander and pine nuts.

5

Split the warmed Alamir Bakery Pita Bread, and heap one half up with the filling.

6

Put back together, turn the oven up to 200 degrees. Return the filled pita bread back in the oven for a further 5 minutes to warm through and puff up.

7

Crumble feta over the pita, and serve with tabbouli or a side salad.

Pita with Buttery Spinach and Feta