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Spinach and Ricotta Rolls

Here's how you make Spinach and Ricotta Rolls
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  • Servings: 12
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 30m
  • The following recipe serves 12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 350 grams spinach, frozen thawed and chopped
  • 350 grams ricotta, fresh and crumbled
  • 40 grams parmesan, finely grated or vegetarian hard cheese (1/2 cup)
  • 1 egg, lightly whisked plus 1 extra whisked (in separate bowls)
  • 2 tablespoons dill, fresh and chopped
  • 1 lemon, rind finely grated
  • 1/3 teaspoon nutmeg (a good pinch specified)
  • 240 grams puff pastry, frozen and just thawed (2 sheets specified our sheets are about 23cm square)
  • Tomato sauce, to serve (ketchup)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 200C/180C fan forced and line 2 baking trays with baking paper.

  • Step 2: Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and cook the spring onion and garlic, stirring often, for 2 minutes or until softened and then transfer to a large bowl.

  • Step 3: Place the spinach in a sieve set over a bowl and using the back of a spoon to press as much liquid as you can out of the spinach and then discard liquid and add the spinach to spring onion mixture and then add ricotta, parmesan, egg, dill, lemon rind and nutmeg and season and using hand to mix until well combined.

  • Step 4: Cut each pastry sheet in half and place one-quarter of the spinach mixture in a log shape along 1 long side of a piece of pastry and brush the opposite long edge with extra egg and then roll up to enclose.

  • Step 5: Cut each roll into 3 pieces and place, seam side down on the prepared trays and repeat with the remaining spinach mixture and pastry.

  • Step 6: Score the rolls at 5mm intervals and brush with extra egg and bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown and serve with tomato sauce/ketchup.


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