Spinach & Rice Pie
Hot or cold, this is picnic food or not. Perfect for an easy make ahead supper. Cue the salad. Done-ski.
This pie is great picnic food cold, or fantastic lunch fare served with a side salad. You don’t have to make your own puff pastry, but if you do, you will absolutely notice the difference and it will elevate this pie from every day to dinner party fare. So get rolling, you’ll want to impress with this one!
I have been making this for literally years, way before Thermomix was in my life. I used to use silver beet, back in the day. I think it would also be awesome with kale...if you are hip enough to cook with kale! Salad on the side? Optional, just delicious hot or cold. You're welcome.
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Need
- 1 Batch Parmesan Puff Pastry or 2 sheets commercial puff pastry Recipe
- 150 Grams mozzarella, cubed
- 100 Grams parmesan cheese cubed
- 180 Grams brown rice rinsed
- 800 Grams water
- 1 brown onion peeled and halved
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 400 Grams spinach leaves
- Finely grated zest 2 lemons
- 80 Grams fresh lemon juice
- 6 eggs large
- pink salt flakes and black pepper to taste BUY
- Filo Pastry (or commercial filo, thawed) Recipe
- 100 Grams butter melted BUY
- A few sesame seeds for garnish
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 180°C. Butter and line a 18 x 26cm baking dish with the puff pastry, bringing pastry right up the sides of the dish. Set aside.
- 2
Place cheeses into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 10. Remove from bowl and set aside.
- 3
Place rice into simmering basket, insert into Thermomix bowl and add water. Cook 8 min/100°C/speed 3. Drain and set rice aside.
- 4
Place onion and EVOO into Thermomix bowl and chop 2 sec/speed 4. Sauté 5 min/Varoma/speed 1.
- 5
Add spinach a bowlful at a time and chop 3 sec/speed 5. Repeat until all spinach is chopped
- 6
Add zest, lemon juice, eggs, salt and pepper, parboiled rice and grated cheese. Mix for 20 sec/Interval with the aid of the spatula.
- 7
Spread into pastry base. Brush each sheet of filo pastry with butter and place on top of mixture to fully cover.Pinch edges to seal pastry. Sprinkle with a scant few sesame seeds
- 8
Slash top of pie in a diagonal cross. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until golden and centre is set.
- 9
Serve with lemon wedges and a salad.
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
