This delicious pie is a great way to use your homemade ricotta cheese! It is so creamy and delicious and always receives great reviews. It is great for company and would be perfect to serve at a brunch, although we like it for dinner also!
Spinach Ricotta Pie
Ingredients:
- 1 pie crust
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 10-ounces fresh spinach, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 16-ounces homemade ricotta cheese (3 very loosely packed cups) (store-bought will work as well)
- 8 ounce mozzarella cheese, grated
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 3 large eggs, beaten
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Place the pie crust in a 9-in pie dish. Fold the edges under and crimp the edges. Put the pie dish in the refrigerator.
Melt the butter in a large cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and saute until translucent (about 5 minutes). Add the minced garlic and saute for 1 minute longer. Mix in the spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Cook and stir until all the spinach is wilted (It should shrink down a LOT.)
Combine ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses in large bowl. Mix in the eggs. Add the spinach mixture and blend well.
Take the pie dish out of the refrigerator and spoon the cheese mixture into the pie crust. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until the filling is set in center and brown on top. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Cut the pie into wedges and enjoy!
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Oh my! This looks amazing!
This week on THIS WEEK’S CRAVINGS we are looking for “brunch recipes”. We’d love for you to come link up this tasty looking recipe!
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I would love to link up to This Week’s Cravings, Tina. Thanks for the invite!
this looks so delicious! I think I may have to try this with the cottage cheese I just made since I don’t think the 3 of us can eat it in the next two weeks.
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Sounds great, Melody! Let me know how it turns out with the cottage cheese.
Would you think frozen spinach would be okay? I just found 4 bags hiding in the bottom of the freezer
I am so excited to try the homemade ricotta! Thanks!
Hi Elaine! I think that the frozen spinach would be fine. I would just make sure that all the liquid was squeezed out of it before I added it to the saute pan and then saute it until any remaining liquid has evaporated.
Let me know how your homemade ricotta turns out!
This looks like a perfect brunch dish…I’ll definitely have to try it soon!
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Oh this looks positively divine! I don’t have any homemade ricotta right now but I do have some yummy raw milk mozzarella and a pie crust I made the other day. Can’t wait to give this a try once I get the other ingredients! Thanks for posting! I found you over at Real Food Wed. by the way.
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Hope you like it Jennie. I’m sure it will be very good with the homemade mozzarella!
Hi Mindy,
What a beautiful pie. I can almost taste the wonderful combination of flavor and texture in your recipe. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and hope to see you next week!
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Visiting through Tidy Mom’s I’m Lovin it Friday. WOW, that is one beautiful pie. I’m going to put this in my “must try” folder. Your crust is beautiful too. Is that from scratch and if so, do you have the recipe?
Thanks.
Hi Carla, I made an all butter pie crust with unbleached all-purpose flour. You can find the recipe at this address http://www.ivillage.com/pie-crust/3-r-61087 It makes a double crust so I just cut the recipe in half unless I need two!
Wow this looks really gorgeous. I want to make this tonight!! Thanks for sharing.
Delicious!! It reminder me of quiche. I used sourdought pizza dough as the crust. Thanks for the recipe.
That’s a great idea to use sourdough pizza dough for the crust, Alice! I’ll have to give it a try.
Wow this looks sooo good!! I love the addition of the ricotta and sun dried tomatoes, yum!
Thanks for linking up the Newlyweds recipe linky hope to see you next week!
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I made this recipe yesterday for Valentine’s Day (my husband requested a dish with spinach). It was very tasty! I added a bit more spinach and sun-dried tomato, but otherwise, I stuck with the ingredients as listed. Thanks for posting the recipe!
Well, I tried to make homemade mozzerella today and ended up with ricotta so this recipe is as timely as they get. Its on tomorrows menu!