Spinach and cheese pies for Halloween

Wash the spinach, chop finely.
Preheat a frying pan with 2 tablespoons of oil.
Put spinach, cook for 5 minutes. Add salt.
Transfer the spinach to a deep bowl.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Add cheese to the cooled spinach, mix.
Sprinkle the work surface with flour.
Roll out the dough. Cut out the circles.
Put the filling on a circle of dough, cover with a second circle, secure the edges with a fork.
Put on a baking sheet. Beat the egg and grease the surface of the pies with it.
Bake at 200 C for 18-20 minutes .

Spinach (Latin Spinacia) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the Amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), in modern classification it is placed in the subfamily of Haze (Chenopodioideae), previously considered as an independent family of Chenopodiaceae.

The most famous representative of the genus is garden spinach (Spinacia oleracea), widely represented in culture, used in cooking, used both in the preparation of salads and as an integral part of various dishes.

Garden spinach entered the culture for a very long time — perhaps about 2000 years ago, or after the VI century AD. There is no consensus among researchers about the place of origin of cultivated spinach. A possible place of origin of culture is called Iran or the Caucasus. Other botanists, along with Iran, consider Central Asia and Afghanistan to be the center of this culture. For the first time, Linnaeus (under the name Spinacia oleracea) defines cultivated spinach as a species.

Wild spinach as a separate species was first described by the Russian botanist H. H. Steven in 1809 as four-stoned spinach (Spinacia tetrandra). For a long time, four-stoned spinach remained the only known form of wild spinach. The revision of the genus carried out by M. M. Ilyin in 1934 revealed an independent species of wild spinach growing in Central Asia — Turkestan spinach (Spinacia turkestanica).

English spinach can be called a completely different plant — spinach sorrel (Rumex patientia), belonging to the Buckwheat family.