Banitsa with Spinach

Ingredients

• 1 kg flour
• 1 kg spinach
• 300 g white brined cheese
• ¾ cupful of yoghurt
• 200g butter
• 1 spoonful sunflower oil
• 1 spoonful vinegar
• salt

Directions

1. Cook the cleaned and finely cut spinach in some of the butter.
2. After having cooled, stir in crumbled cheese and yoghurt.
3. Knead a hard dough from the flour, oil, vinegar, salt and water.
4. Roll into five sheets (1 kg of ready rolled pastry sheets may also be used).
5. Line a baking dish with butter, place 1 sheet on the bottom and top with the spinach filling.
6. Add a second sheet, filling and so on.
7. Baste in a moderate oven.
8. The same recipe may be used for making banitsa with leeks.