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(Uruguayan Spinach Pie)
Ingredients
5 eggs
500 g of frozen (or fresh) spinach
2 frozen sheets of puff pastry
1 onion
3 garlic cloves (you can use more if you really love garlic)
Olive oil (Spanish of course)
4 or 5 slices of cheddar cheese
Bread crumbs
Directions
Defrost the spinach in the microwave oven for 10 minutes in
high. In the meantime slice the onion thinly and fry it with
olive oil with the garlic in a very hot frying pan until it
gives that nice fried onion smell (yes just before it burns
itself away). Toss the defrosted spinach into the frying pan
and add one of the eggs to this mixture, add 2 soupspoons
of breadcrumbs, and mix. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes in high.
Using non-stick baking papers, line the inside of the round
baking tray (20 cm diameter will do). You might decide to
have a glass (or 2) of a nice white or red wine, whilst you
are doing this. Lay one sheet of the puff pastry on the tray
and add the mixture of spinach, onion and garlic. Break the
rest of the eggs and put them on top of this mixture. Finally
add the cheese slices on top of the eggs. Cover this with
the second sheet of puff pastry. Cook for 35 minutes in a
pre-heated oven at 220ºc.
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Pasta Frola
- Dessert
Ingredients
2 cups of flour
1 t baking powder
150 grams of butter
1 cup of sugar
one egg
one yolk
1 T milk
One can of quince
Directions
Beat the butter, sugar and eggs. Pour the flour and baking powder.
Knead together. Voila! the cake mixture is ready. Lay in a baking
pan, add the can of quince, and cut strips of pastry. And in a criss-cross
pattern, decorate the top of the cake. Bake for 35 minutes in an
oven set for 375 F.
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