Ingredients

  • 1 Bunch Beet Greens
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled
  • ¼ teaspoon chile powder, ground new mex medium to hot
  • 300 grams Flour
  • 30 grams butter, unsalted, Cold
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ½ cup water, cold
  • 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated

Directions

1. Cook beet greens until stems soft. Cut greens into small chunks. Squeeze them dry. Saute garlic in olive oil to flavor oil. Remove from oil before browing. Add chili and stir in. Stir in greens and salt. Saute a few minutes. Remove from heat and cool. Line cooking sheet with parchment.
2. Cut in butter and flour with salt. Add water until dough just comes together. Form ball, pat down, cover and chill. Cut dough into 2/5 to 3/5 sections. Roll out larger piece so a thin pie crust and place on parchment paper. Roll out smaller piece as thin as possible.
3. Preheat oven to 180*C/GM 5/375*F.
4. Spread green mixture thinly leaving 1 inch of dough around edge. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over top. Place top crust over greens and fold bottom layer up and over top layer. Press around with fork to seal edge. Prick the top crust with 20 plus fork jabs.
5. Place in oven to bake for 10 minutes until crust just starting to turn brown. Do not glaze.
6. Can be served hot or cold.

Notes
Mama Wanda did a similar dish and is much better. She used a very thin, transparent dough so struedel or filo type dough but only one layer. She also glazed it with egg wash, nice and glossy. It was formed into 2 coiled snakes one inside the other. So overall probably 2 plus inches thick.

Greens can be of any type and mixture. Mama Wanda added various herbs for additional flavor. Cooking teacher said can be savory or sweet filling. Meat, cheese, vegetables, jam, etc.

Cooking teacher's version comes out like a flat pasty. Something that can be put in a lunch pail or picnic basket and survive.


Keywords
2010 Vacation, Italy, greens, kale, collard, beet
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