Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, vegan spanakopita. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Spanakopita or spinach pie is probably one of the best-known of all traditional Greek dishes and hands down one of the most delicious. Its traditionally made without cheese so, bonus, authentically vegan too! A handful of simple ingredients - fresh dill, mint, peppery chopped scallions, gorgeous green leafy spinach and you're good to go.
Vegan Spanakopita is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Vegan Spanakopita is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegan spanakopita using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan Spanakopita:
- Make ready 1 block silken tofu
- Take 2 big handfulls chopped swiss chard
- Get 1 tbsp minced garlic
- Prepare 3 tbsp nutritional yeast
- Prepare Juice of one lemon
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Take Phyllo pastry (I used 6 sheets from a pack and froze the rest)
- Make ready Vegan butter or oil of choice to brush phyllo
This vegan spanakopita is hands down the absolute best you've ever had! My mom has a famous spanakopita recipe. It's the only one I will eat, and anywhere she goes people ask her to bring it. My friends ask for it for their birthdays and my boys will take down the entire pan in a matter of minutes.
Instructions to make Vegan Spanakopita:
- Add all ingredients together in a bowl and mix well, tofu will break up
- Take 2 sheets of phyllo and brush each with butter
- Put the sheets on top of each other and then divide this double sheet into four strips
- Add a heaped tbsp of the mixture to the end of the strip
- Fold it into a triangle, criss crossing until you have a samoosa shape
- Brush with more butter and put on a baking sheet
- Put in a preheated oven (160deg) for 20mins or until golden and crispy
- Serve with chutney!
I have wanted to make it vegan for years. A Note on Vegan Cheese for Vegan Spanakopita. Now, this isn't any old vegan spanakopita. A lot of spanakopita recipes call for both feta and ricotta cheese. So, we're going to be making BOTH vegan feta and ricotta from scratch (using a good food processor!), then mix them up with spinach.
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