Definition & Meaning | English word SPANAKOPITA

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Definitions of SPANAKOPITA

1. (Usually short for spanakotiropita) A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg and seasoning in phyllo pastry.
2. The same or similar dishes made without cheese.

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Examples of Using SPANAKOPITA in a Sentence

• Feta is used as a table cheese, in salads such as Greek salad, and in pastries, notably the phyllo-based Greek dishes spanakopita "spinach pie" and tyropita "cheese pie".
• Greek food includes pork, chicken, and beef souvlaki, spanakopita, loukoumades, gyros, and roast quail.
• Greek foods often served at Greek festivals include Lamb, Greek salad with olives and Feta cheese, Dolmades, Spanakopita, Tiropita, and Greek coffee.
• Many Coney Islands offer other Greek and Greek-American dishes, such as gyros, souvlaki, shish kebab, spanakopita, saganaki, and Greek salads, as well as usual American diner fare, such as regular hamburgers, sandwiches, breakfast items, and desserts.
• Appetizers or entrées like tzatziki (yogurt, garlic and cucumber dip), melitzanosalata (eggplant dip), tirokafteri (whipped feta cheese, with hot peppers and olive oil dip), spanakopita and dolmades or dolmadakia - (rice mixture with fresh herbs such as mint and parsley and sometimes pine nuts-and in some regions minced meat is added-tightly wrapped with tender grape leaves and served with a thick and creamy, lemony sauce).
• It is also used along with feta cheese in the vast majority of recipes for spanakopita, where many recipes say to substitute with Romano or Parmesan if kefalotyri cannot be obtained.
• Traditional Greek foods like spanakopita, tzatziki, baklava, dolmades, tsoureki, skordalia, melitzanosalata, melomakarona, kakavia soup, kourabiedes, kothropita, and kapamas are made.
• Appetizers or entrées like tzatziki (yogurt, garlic, cucumber dip), melitzanosalata (eggplant dip), tirokafteri (whipped feta cheese, with hot peppers and olive oil dip), spanakopita and dolmades or dolmadakia – (rice mixture with fresh herbs such as mint and parsley and sometimes pine nuts-and in some regions minced meat is added-tightly wrapped with tender grape leaves and served with a thick and creamy, lemony sauce).
• The market includes 3,000 imported goods from Greece such as frappé coffee, olive oil, various ouzo's spanakopita, feta and kasseri cheeses and tiropita.
• Other common specialities are Goulash, Spanakopita, Sarma (food), Dolma, Moussaka, Prizren Tava and Elbasan Tava.
• Filo pastry, used in applications such as baklava, strudel, and spanakopita, where the dough itself is not laminated.
• Ali's papri chat wowed the judges, and she advanced to round two, along with Matt and Julie, who also impressed the judges with their chicken wings and spanakopita respectively.

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