Haloumi, feta, spinach and mushroom… but spinach is the cheapest. Well, spinach ‘pie’ it is.
The assistant takes the spinach fatayer out of the display and warms it in the oven for me for a couple of minutes. Then she wraps it in paper and hands it to me.
Pull a stool up to the bench by the window. The fatayer is a triangular baked parcel. On the outside it’s golden brown and crisp enough to make a click when I tap it with my fingernail: it seems almost like pastry. But it breaks apart easily without any crumbling, it’s definitely bread. A bit like focaccia. Inside is a green mixture that looks like silverbeet and green onion.
I try a piece of bread with no filling. It’s light and slightly sweet.
Now for the filling…
It’s definitely silverbeet rather than spinach. A splash of lemon. A little bitter, a little salty, but almost neutral in flavour… pleasingly.
So hungry, it’s hard not to wolf it down. I eat a third of it by pulling pieces off… can’t wait anymore, bite into it with one side of my mouth to avoid my cracked tooth.
It becomes hard not to loose the filling out of the triangle… but I manage.
Was it worth my $2.60? Why yes. Yes it was.
Rating:
Specifics: Spinach pie from Lebanese Pizza, Merrylands
Spinach Fatayer
Haloumi, feta, spinach and mushroom… but spinach is the cheapest. Well, spinach ‘pie’ it is.
The assistant takes the spinach fatayer out of the display and warms it in the oven for me for a couple of minutes. Then she wraps it in paper and hands it to me.
Pull a stool up to the bench by the window. The fatayer is a triangular baked parcel. On the outside it’s golden brown and crisp enough to make a click when I tap it with my fingernail: it seems almost like pastry. But it breaks apart easily without any crumbling, it’s definitely bread. A bit like focaccia. Inside is a green mixture that looks like silverbeet and green onion.
I try a piece of bread with no filling. It’s light and slightly sweet.
Now for the filling…
It’s definitely silverbeet rather than spinach. A splash of lemon. A little bitter, a little salty, but almost neutral in flavour… pleasingly.
So hungry, it’s hard not to wolf it down. I eat a third of it by pulling pieces off… can’t wait anymore, bite into it with one side of my mouth to avoid my cracked tooth.
It becomes hard not to loose the filling out of the triangle… but I manage.
Was it worth my $2.60? Why yes. Yes it was.
Rating:
Specifics: Spinach pie from Lebanese Pizza, Merrylands