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Cup up Spaghetti with Spinach

Ingredients:
1 kilo of boiled, strained and chopped spinach
1 grated onion
1 finely grated carrot
1 spoonful of chopped celery leaves
½ cup of oil
Salt, pepper
½ kilo of cut up spaghetti

 

Ingredients:
Saute the celery and the onion in the oil, until they wither. Add the spinach, some salt and pepper and let these ingredients simmer. Boil the pasta and strain it. Serve the pasta in a deep platter and add the spinach in the middle.

 

Find here the cookbook: Traditional Recipies of Holy Mount Athos by Monk Nikitas Agioreitis

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