🇧🇦 Bosnian Cuisine

Pita Zeljanica

Spinach Phyllo Pie

Prep Time 45 min
Servings 6
Difficulty Medium
Calories 330 kcal

Spiraling layers of hand-pulled phyllo dough filled with wilted spinach and tangy feta cheese, baked to flaky perfection.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Make dough: mix flour, water, salt. Knead until smooth. Divide into 8 balls, rest 30 min.
  2. 2 Wilt spinach, squeeze out all water. Mix with feta, 1 egg, salt, pepper.
  3. 3 Stretch each dough ball paper-thin on a floured cloth.
  4. 4 Brush with oil, spread spinach filling in a line, roll into a long rope.
  5. 5 Coil the rope into an oiled round pan, continuing with each piece to form a spiral.
  6. 6 Brush top with beaten egg and oil. Bake at 190C for 35-40 min until golden.

Did You Know?

In Bosnian families, the ability to stretch pita dough thin enough to read a newspaper through it is a mark of culinary mastery.