Ingredients

  • 2 kg raw spinach
  • salt
  • 25 g butter
  • 50 g lard, chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, chopped
  • 6 spring onions, chopped (or 1 onion of out of season)
  • 300 g flour
  • 30 g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 100 g olive oil
  • parmesan cheese

Method

  • Clean and rinse the spinach well, cook them slowly in a pan covered with a lid without adding water; squeeze and chop finely.
  • Brown chopped lard in butter, add smashed garlic and the spring onions.
  • As they are golden (med fire) add the spinach.
  • Regulate salt.
  • Make a dough kneading the flour with the butter, a pinch of sald and as much water as enough (about 150cc + olive oil).
  • Line a round baking pan with the dough; fill it with the spinach mixture.
  • Beat the eggs (yolk first and white as needed) with parmesan and pour over the spinach, without mixing.
  • Cover with a disk of dough, pierce it with fork, seal the borders.
  • Bake at 180C for about 30 mins.