Fritada (or Spinach oven bake)
Servings
5-20servings, depending on how large or small you cut the pieces and how greedy your guests are – it’s very moreish!
Servings
5-20servings, depending on how large or small you cut the pieces and how greedy your guests are – it’s very moreish!
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Cook the spinach in a large saucepan until it is dark green and wilted. Drain off excess water and cut up roughly with a knife or break up with a fork.
  2. Add matzo meal, 1 egg and grated cheese. The mixture should present an even blend of yellow and green, flecked with the white matzo meal.
  3. Add pepper to taste.
  4. If mixture seems very dry, add more egg. If too wet, add more matzo meal.
  5. Line baking tray with non-stick greaseproof paper, or – easier – pour in some corn oil and spread with kitchen paper or fingers.
  6. Spoon into a shallow baking tray and press down with fork or hands so that mixture is about 1 cm thick.
  7. Sprinkle some grated cheese on top.
  8. Put in medium oven and cook until surface begins to harden (stage 2), or if for immediate consumption, until cheese is just beginning to brown – approx 20 mins (stage 1).
  9. For freezing finish at stage 1, allow to cool and put in freezer. Can be cut into squares before freezing but best left whole.
  10. Unfreeze and when defrosted, return to oven until stage 2.