Description

In this video, Chef Mike Isabella from Zaytinya restaurant in Washington, D.C. will instruct on how to prepare and bake the traditional Greek spinach pie called Spanokopita. This video is designed for someone interested in learning a traditional Greek dish, but includes a variety of tips and processes that are useful to any style cooking. This video series includes an overview of the process; cleaning, blanching and shocking spinach; preparing and sautéing leeks and scallions; clarifying butter; how to work with phyllo and how to build and bake the actual spanokopita.