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Spanikopita, Traditional GREEK SPINACH PIE and other filling and phyllo tricks!

I LOVE Spanikopita and I use this filling in so many ways! My filling is mostly traditional, with an addition of mozzarella cheese...Although, I am not sure what the "traditional" really is, as I ate Spanikopita throughout Greece, at least 4 times, and every one of them was slightly different! Some were creamier (maybe with an addition of cream or cream cheese). I even had one that was fried in phyllo! I have never seen that here in the US.  TZATZIKI SAUCE RECIPE:    • Greek Tzatziki Sauce, Cucumber Sauce RECIPE   To make traditional Greek Spinach Pie, you will need: 16 ounces of Chopped Spinach, thawed and drained 6-8oz of Feta Cheese, crumbled (the more the better!) 2 eggs, whole scrambled 8 ounces Mozzarella Cheese, shredded 1 small Onion, fine diced or minced 4-5 Garlic Cloves, minced 3+ tsp of Dill (add slowly to your liking) 3 TBS flour Salt & Pepper to taste 1 box of Phyllo Dough Sheets 3 sticks of Butter, melted. (Start with 2 to not waste) (makes 14-16 standard triangles) You can make these in triangles, squares, rectangles, a full sheet, a pie shape, whatever you want. I like the traditional triangles personally. The key to good phyllo dough recipes is BUTTER. Lots of butter between the sheets. When you finish assembling your triangles (or whatever shape you choose), you will need to coat each piece GENEROUSLY with butter. Butter will help the outer sheets to stay nice. If you skip this step, they will dry out and the outside will crack, a lot.  Once you have coated your shapes generously with butter, at this point you can freeze them if you so choose. To bake later, you can bake from frozen, or allow to thaw first. Either way works. Bake at 375F until golden brown and hot inside. (Frozen triangles usually take about 25 min.) A FEW OTHER WAYS TO USE THIS FILLING: Quiche (Quiche base is 1/2 heavy whipping cream and 1/2 whole scrambled eggs, salt and pepper, with whatever fillings you like, in pie crust. Add the spinach mixture to the base (amount to your liking) and bake 375 for 45-60min. until set.) Phyllo Cups (spoon in and bake as directed.) Use Puff Pastry instead of phyllo (choose your makeup, brush with egg, bake at 400 until puffed, golden, and dry.) Stuff it in chicken breasts and bake until the chicken is 165degrees. *Sometimes I add very small diced tomatoes in for color or extra flavor around the holidays.  EXTRA PHYLLO DOUGH?  I usually have a few sheets of leftover phyllo from this recipe. What do I do with it?  I make some apple pie filling (cool it thoroughly) and stuff it into any phyllo shape, butter, bake, and dust with cinnamon sugar! Serve with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.  There is something about that buttery phyllo with cinnamon sugar! OH MY GOODNESS! You must try it!