Jamie Oliver’s ‘cracking’ spinach and feta pie recipe can be prepared and baked in 1 hour

shared his “cracking” spinach, feta and lemon pie , which is “baked to perfection”.

Best enjoyed with a simple , there will be enough filo pastry pie for second helpings, or serving up to eight people.

While feta is one of the main star ingredients, the chef encouraged cooks to play around with different cheeses.

“You can use any soft or hard cheese you like, such as goat’s cheese or red Leicester. Have fun experimenting,” enthused.

Here’s how to recreate the iconic chef’s vegetarian filo pastry pie, which only takes 60 minutes to prepare and bake.

Jamie Oliver’s spinach, feta and lemon pie recipe

Serves: eight people

Ingredients

1kg spinach

Two onions

Two cloves of garlic

Olive oil

One whole nutmeg, for grating

One lemon

100g feta cheese

Half a bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley

Half a bunch of fresh dill

200g natural yoghurt

Four large eggs

275g pack filo pastry

10g Cheddar cheese

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C (350F/gas four). Peel and finely slice the onions and the garlic, then fry in a large non-stick pan with one tablespoon of olive oil for 10 minutes.

Stir in the spinach, grate in some nutmeg and the zest of a lemon. Crumble in half of the feta cheese and season with salt and black pepper. Add in half of the chopped parsley and dill.

In a bowl, whisk the remaining feta with all of the natural yoghurt and the eggs until well-mixed. Working one at a time, brush a sheet of filo pastry with olive oil and spread with some spinach mixture.

Roll into a long sausage shape and place in a 30cm x 40cm baking dish. Repeat until all the filo and spinach are used up and the baking dish is filled with neat rows of filo.

Pour over the egg mixture, brush with olive oil, then finely grate over Cheddar. Bake for 35 minutes. Scatter the remaining herbs over the top, and serve.