Best Feta Ricotta Skillet Pie Recipes

FETA & RICOTTA SKILLET PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix ¾ of the feta with the ricotta in a medium bowl until mostly smooth, leaving some chunks of feta. Beat the eggs into the cheese, then add the flour and milk. Season with ½ teaspoon salt, pepper and the dill.
• Butter a 10-inch cast-iron skillet or earthenware baking dish. Pour in the batter and crumble remaining cheese on top. Bake until golden, 35 to 40 minutes. Cut into wedges and serve.

SPINACH RICOTTA PIE WITH A HINT OF FETA

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Heat the oil in a heavy pot over high heat.
• Add the onion and saute until translucent, about 3 minutes.
• Add the spinach in batches, if necessary, and saute until the ribbons are just wilted.
• Lightly beat the ricotta and the eggs together in a bowl.
• Add the spinach mixture, feta, oregano and salt and pepper.
• Mix thoroughly.
• Pour the batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Bake for about 40 minutes, until the top is lightly browned.
• Serve warm or at room temperature.

CHEF JOHN'S SPINACH AND FETA PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat butter in a large oven-safe skillet over high heat. Toss spinach in hot butter until wilted, about 30 seconds. Drain spinach well and squeeze it as dry as possible. Transfer to a cutting board and chop.
• Beat eggs in a bowl with salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper until thoroughly combined.
• Place bacon in the same skillet used to cook spinach and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until bacon has rendered its fat and is almost crisp, 5 to 8 minutes. Use a paper towel held in a tongs to remove excess bacon grease. Reduce heat to medium; saute onion with bacon and a pinch of salt until onion is translucent, about 5 more minutes.
• Saute chopped spinach with bacon and onion until spinach is hot; pour in eggs. Use a wooden spoon to distribute spinach evenly throughout the eggs. Sprinkle feta cheese over mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until eggs are set, 10 to 15 minutes. Top may still be a little wet.
• Turn on oven's broiler. Broil pie until top is lightly golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes.

GREEK SKILLET PIES WITH FETA AND GREENS

Steps:

• Make the phyllo dough: Combine flour and salt in the work bowl of a stand mixer fitted with dough hook. Add olive oil, vinegar and 1/2 cup cold water. Mix at medium speed for about 5 minutes to obtain a smooth, soft dough. If the dough seems dry, add up to 3 tablespoons more water. Wrap in plastic film and let rest for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the filling: Blanch greens in salted boiling water for 30 seconds. Drain, rinse with cool water, squeeze dry and chop fine. In a small bowl, put chopped greens, parsley, dill, oregano, black pepper to taste, a pinch of crushed chile pepper and the feta. Mix with a fork to combine.
• Give dough a quick knead and divide into 6 pieces. Dust dough with cornstarch or rice flour, then roll each piece of dough as thinly as possible, stretching gradually to a diameter of 16 inches. Alternatively, roll dough to the thinnest possible setting of a pasta machine. Cut each circle in half and dust pieces with cornstarch or rice flour and stack off to the side. Alternatively, roll dough to the thinnest possible setting of a pasta machine and make smaller pies.
• Assemble the pies: Put a ridged stovetop grill or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. For each pie, lay 1 sheet phyllo on work surface and brush with olive oil. Cover half the sheet lightly with filling, using 3 to 4 tablespoons of mixture per pie. Fold over the other side and press down to seal pie. It will be a rough, very flat triangle shape.
• Brush both exterior sides with olive oil, carefully lay pie on the grill and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until golden and crisp (reduce heat as necessary). Flip pie and cook the other side for 3 to 4 minutes, until golden and crisp. Remove and serve warm; cut into smaller pieces if desired. Continue to make pies with remaining ingredients.

SILVER BEET RICOTTA AND FETA PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200C (180C fan forced).
• Grease a 6cm deep x 20 cm (base) round spring form pan and line the base and sides with baking/parchment paper and place on a large baking tray.
• Remove and discard stems from the the silver beet (kale) and roughly chop the leaves.
• Heat a fry pan/skillet over high heat and cook silver beet in batches stirring for 2 minutes or until wilted (how many batches will depend on the size of your pan) and transfer to a colander over a large bowl and using the back of a large spoon press silver beet/kale to drain excess liquid and cool for 5 minutes.
• Combine onion, ricotta, feta, lemon rind, eggs and 1 cup of cheddar (tasty) cheese in a large bowl and add silver beet and add seasoning of salt and pepper and stir to combine.
• Place 1 tortilla in the base of the prepared spring form pan and spread one-third of silver beet mixture over tortilla and repeat layers twice with tortillas and silver beet mix and finish with a tortilla and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup of cheddar (tasty) cheese.
• Bake, uncovered for 5 minutes or until golden and then stand in pan for 5 minutes before you remove from the pan and cut into wedges.