Batsaria from Ioannina

Name: Batsaria from Ioannina
Yield: 1 baking tray
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1/2 kg cornmeal; 1 egg; 250 ml milk (and a little more milk); olive oil; 1 kg various greens (spinach, Mediterranean hartwort, chard); 1/2 bunch dill; 1/2 bunch chervil; 1 bunch spring onions; 1 dry onion; 1/2 cup sour trahana; 1/2 kg feta cheese; olive oil; coarse salt

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Ioannina and Epirus in general, are renown for their pies. The area is poor and the materials scarce, so to feed the family, women used whatever the land and nature had to offer. Batsaria is a pie that is made with cornmeal, various wild greens, flour and milk... but let's see it in detail!

Recipe by Kimwlos

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Greece

Recipe by Kimwlos

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Ingredients

1 baking tray

For the dough
1/2 kgcornmeal
1egg
250 mlmilk (and a little more milk)
olive oil
For the filling
1 kgvarious greens (spinach, Mediterranean hartwort, chard)
1/2 bunchdill
1/2 bunchchervil
1 bunchspring onions
1dry onion
1/2 cupsour trahana
1/2 kgfeta cheese
olive oil
coarse salt

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Steps

1

Wash the greens thoroughly and cut them into medium to large pieces.
2

Add coarse salt and rub them (squeeze them using your hands so that the liquids are drained and they get more tender).
3

Cut the spring onions into rings and add them to the greens.
4

Add the dry onion, finely chopped.
5

Chop the herbs and add them.
6

Add a little bit of olive oil.
7

Continue with the feta cheese, roughly broken with your hands into small chunks and the trahana.
8

Mix all the ingredients well and set them aside.
9

Prepare the dough. Put the corn meal in a small tray, add the egg, a little bit of salt and gradually, the milk. The dough should be firm, not crumbly or runny.
10

Oil a round baking tray (in my village, we call it "sini") with a diameter of about 35 cm.
11

Spread 3/4 of the dough in the baking tray with your hand and press so that it is evenly distributed and covers the walls of the baking tray. Make sure that it has the same thickness all around.
12

Spread the filling on top of the dough making sure that it gets everywhere and press lightly with your hand.
13

Add milk to the rest of the dough that you kept, as much as you need so that you get a runny batter.
14

Scoop handfuls of the batter and sprinkle the pie so that you cover the top almost completely.
15

Sprinkle with a little oil and bake in a preheated oven at 180ο C for about an hour, until golden brown.