Spanakopita - Meatless Monday - Martha Stewart 

My Yiayia was from Istanbul, Turkey and made incredible Greek food. Her spanakopita was made with fresh baby spinach, fresh leeks, scallions, parsley, carmelized onions, and mint. She never sautéed the spinach, but rather placed the leaves on a baking sheet & placed in oven and warmed the spinach until the leaves would wilt, then she dabbed the spinach with paper towels removed from oven. She only sautéed all other ingredients and assembled the pita. She never used butter or olive oil, only ghee. She basted each piece of phyllo with ghee. She lightly added salt, pepper, and sumac. She then scored the pita into diamonds like Baklava. The oven was set at 375 for 40 minutes to make sure the phyllis was golden. She would remove it and let it rest on the counter until it was still warm, but not hot. It was delicious! She never used feta cheese, or eggs. It was an old recipe of Constantinopolitan Greeks from the once famous and affluent Greek Phanariot Community. Yiayia lived to be 96 years old! Love you & miss you Yiayia!

Greek food is so underrated bc they don't show enough of their dishes on national TV as compared to, say, Italian or Chinese food. Next time, Martha, show how to make Baklava ! Yum !

Great episode! Martha and the greek lady have great chemistry! I used to work with a greek woman and she was exactly the same. Friendly but firm. Strict but nice... i love their sense of humor. ! Will definitely make this for my mom

Agapi is a amazing!!!! Thank You Martha for having her on your show!

I love this Greek treat absolutely delicious.

the Greek lady is very sweet, joyful 😊

Ricota and Feta are so versatile.

2 beautiful ladies. Thank you

Love Agapi, her recipe and theory about life. Great show. I needed that! Beautiful!!

Sorry I missed this episode. What a delight these two ladies are.

love, love it...sooo good folks

Love you, Martha, on RU-vid and your website!

Great guest! Made my morning

Martha Stewart is a NOBODY without the people she has on her show. Martha is SO fixed on her self.

I love this dish!

Love love love spanakopita - made some last night Opa!!

I miss Martha by mail, I miss the old Martha.

Lovely 😊

She seems so cool! :)

I'm Italian and the greeks are very similar to us!

Danke 👍👍

So lovely ladies ;)

My Yiayia always added some cottage cheese with the feta and spinach as well as Parmesan cheese.

Yaasou 💞💞👌

por favor su programa sale en Argentina y no todos hablamos inglés,me encantan sus recetas, no las puedo realizar,no se q ingredientes lleva,tengo q adivinar,no puedo arriesgar.Por ejemplo cuando usted dice ,1 paquete de mantequilla, cuantos gramos son? aquí en Argentina 1 paquete son 200 gramos, señora toda mi admiración espero respuesta , desde ya muchas gracias

They should collab more

I guess she don't like GPS. That is Greek potion system for those who wonder.

My Yia Yia would haunt me for using frozen spinach. Yuch. Soggy

It is true my dear, that the Italians were eating all kinds of "fruits".

Dill??? Italian man instead of the greek ones??? Was she smoking the spinach Dragon???😱😂😂😂

Love watching this recipe. The convo is so embarrassing .. especially when she explains some 'phylo'sophy on life and Martha just ignores her

Never sauté the spinach dill onions leeks

That's how I feed my eel!

Lovly recipe I'm gonna try it soon but omg that lady was doing a poor job at the mixing and stirring, it was pissing me off

hey, that's Ariana's sister

I guess all yiayias made it slightly different.

pastel de hacelgas en peru

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No one ever puts meat in this lol what the heck

Greek men better! Your recipe is so-so. My mother made it better.

Never, ever had dill in spanakopita. She lost me.