Vegan Cheese and Spinach Spanakopita Triangles (Air Fried or Oven Baked)

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A delicious canape or appetiser that is full of delicious cheezy spinach flavour wrapped in crunchy filo pastry. Perfect for parties!

Prep Time20

Cook Time10

Total Time30

Course: Appetizer, Canape

Cuisine: Greek, Vegan

Diet: Vegan

Servings:

Calories: 75kcal

Author: Louise-Claire Cayzer

250 grams spinach or chard with stems removed 1 standard packet OR frozen spinach
2 cloves garlic finely chopped
½ teaspoon olive oil

Soak the cashews for at least 1 hour in some warm water. You want them to be quite softened.
125 grams raw cashews
Add the tofu, cashews, lemon juice, olives, nutritional yeast, dill and salt and blend until a fluffy but smooth mixture.
150 grams firm tofu, 6 green olives, 4 teaspoon nutritional yeast, 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill , 60 ml lemon juice
Taste for cheezyness and add more olives or nutritional yeast to taste.

Gently sautee the garlic in a deep frying pan until slightly translucent.
250 grams spinach or chard with stems removed, 2 cloves garlic, ½ teaspoon olive oil
Add all the spinach (you might need to add it in bits if your pan is small). Don't worry, spinach pretty much disappears when heated!
Drain off any liquid to avoid soggy pastry!
Once cool, chop the spinach up and mix into the cheezy filling mix along with the dill.

Take one sheet of filo and brush olive oil all over it. Keep the other sheets covered so they don't dry out!
1 packet filo pastry, 3 tablespoon olive oil
Cut it into3 long pieces length ways so you have long skinny pieces.
On one short edge, add a heaped teaspoon of filling in a sort of triangle shape in the corner.
Fold the filled side over, so it makes a triangle shaped parcel. Keep folding over until you run out of pastry. Put it on a greased oven proof tray
Repeat with all the other pieces of filo pastry (there are usually around 10 in each packet) until you run out of filling or pastry. You should be able to make between 18 and 20, depending on how generous you are with the filling.
Bake in the oven on 180℃/ 356℉ for around 10-15 minutes until golden and crispy. Serve warm!
Alternatively heat your air fryer to 180℃/ 356℉ and cook for 6-8 minutes. You may need to cook in batches.

These are freezable for up to 3 months or refrigerate for 2-3 days until needed. Reheat in an oven to heat and crisp up for around 10 minutes.