Spinach & Cheese Pasties

Step 1: Preheat oven to 200C/180C fan forced.

Step 2: Line an oven tray with baking paper.

Step 3: Heat oil in a large frying pan over moderate heat and add spinach and cook and stir for 2 minutes or until it wilts and transfer to a colander and drain well and let cool.

Step 4: Using hands, squeeze excess liquid from spinach and chop.

Step 5: Combine spinach, ricotta, 2 of the eggs, parmesan, onion, parsley, pine nuts and nutmeg in a bowl and season.

Step 6: Cut each pastry sheet into quarters (squares.

Step 7: For each pastie, place a pastry square on a clean work surface and top with an eighth of the spinach mixture, brush edges with whisked eggs and fold pastry over filling to form a triangle and enclose filling and then press edges to seal and place on prepared tray and repeat to make the other 7 and then brush tops with whisked egg.

Step 8: Bake for 15 minutes or until pastry is puffed and golden and serve pasties with salad and relish.