If you like pastries, this might be your thing. It’s similar to spankopita – except there’s no spinach. So we could call it crabopita… You’ll need 1 pack of pollock flavored crab flakes, 1 pack of phyllo sheets (the ones they sell frozen in Superstore, Safeway or Coop), some 250 gr. Philadelphia cheese, 3-4 mushrooms, 1 grated carrot, 1 celery stick, salt, pepper, basil (or any dry spices you like with seafood), 3-4 tbsp melted butter, 1 egg (beaten).
Instructions:
- Prepare the filling: in a bowl, mix crab flakes with the grated carrot and the mushrooms and the celery stick cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper and the spices. Add the cheese and mix well.
- Spread the phyllo sheets and cut them into squares (or into any shapes you want to use for the pastry).
- Melt the butter, and use it to brush the phyllo sheets (I find that using 3 -4 of them per pastry is the best). Then spoon some of the crab mixture onto the phyllo sheets, and using your hands roll them (I prefer doing them like spring rolls, but you may choose other shapes, like triangles).
- Brush each pastry with the egg then put on tray.
- Heat the oven (350F) and leave them for 15 minutes or until the phyllo pastry is crunchy.
