spanikopita

Noun

spanakopita (countable and uncountable, plural spanakopitas or spanakopites)

1. A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning in phyllo pastry.
   • Soon, she’s toting a tray of miniature spanakopites, wedging it between groups of men and women who all seem to have arrived at once, as if they’ve been brought in a chartered bus to populate the house, to form a small privileged nation.1983, Hilma Wolitzer, chapter 30, in In the Palomar Arms, New York, N.Y.: Farrar/Straus/Giroux, →ISBN, page 231
2. The same or similar dishes made without cheese.