Greek snail with cheese and spinach from puff pastry

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a snail with puff pastry cheese? Prepare the products. My dough is yeast-free, it looks more like filo dough, from which such a pie is baked in Greece. Spinach can also be frozen, then it must be pre-thawed. Traditionally, brine cheese is used - feta or cheese. But you can replace it with any one that is at hand. My sesame is black. Remove the dough from the freezer in advance.

2. Step 2:

   

   Let's do the filling first. Spinach, if it is fresh, rinse well and dry. Then finely chop it.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put a frying pan on a small fire, pour vegetable oil on it. Put spinach. Push (sink) it is served for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Spinach has the property of greatly decreasing in volume when quenching.

4. Step 4:

   

   Take a bowl, put the boiled spinach there, cool it slightly. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Break one egg into the filling. The second will be used to lubricate the pie. Add a pinch of salt. Do not over-salt - the cheese is salty enough, take this into account.

5. Step 5:

   

   Mix the filling.

6. Step 6:

   

   Roll out the thawed soft dough on a work surface sprinkled with flour. Make it thin enough - just a few millimeters, then the cake will be more tender.

7. Step 7:

   

   Cut the dough layer into long strips about 5 cm wide.

9. Step 8:

   

   Put the filling on the strip. It is not necessary to put a lot, it may not pinch. And I also do not advise you to put all the stuffing on all the dough at once - it can soften. Do it better one strip at a time.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pinch the edges of the dough, forming a long sausage. Pinch it from the edges too.

11. Step 10:

    

    So make all the sausages.

12. Step 11:

    

    Take a baking sheet, cover it with baking paper. Starting from the center, lay out the finished bundles of dough with stuffing, twisting them in a spiral. Put the sausages seam down, and when connecting, fasten them together. Tuck the end of the last bundle under the pie.

13. Step 12:

    

    Beat the remaining egg lightly with a fork. Smear the pie on top with a beaten egg using a cooking brush - this will give it a ruddy crust when baking. You can take one yolk for this. If desired, sprinkle the cake with sesame seeds. I had only black, I sprinkled it.

14. Step 13:

    

    Bake the snail in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C, baking time - from 20 minutes to half an hour. Focus on the appearance of the pie. The finished cake is good both hot and cold.