Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sweetnesses comes from caramelized onions.
I've never put onions in spankopita.
Are you Greek? Because both sides of my Greek family (from different parts of Greece) put a good bit of onion in their spanakopita. It's a spring dish, so it is typically made with spring onions and dill, which along with the spinach are all spring crops. I have had the spanakopita from greek deli and I don't think it has caramelized onions. The onion for spanakopita is sauteed, but just to translucent, not caramelized.
I don't really use a recipe for my spanakopita -- My usual ingredients are spinach, onion, spring onion, dill, feta, and egg (for binding it together). Other additions that I have included are other hard cheeses - parmesan, asiago, manchego, or whatever has been lingering in my cheese drawer. If I have a small amount of yogurt in a tub, sometimes I throw that in. You could add some ricotta or cottage cheese, but those aren't traditional. I taste my spinach mix before adding egg - if it tastes good, it's ready to go on the phyllo.