Greek Inspired Egg Casserole

Every month at school, a grade level team takes on making breakfast for the staff on the first Friday. I always make a casserole for our January breakfast and this year decided to make something a bit unheard of (at least to me).

Unfortunately I don't have a picture, I completely forgot to take one and it was all gone when I remembered, thats how yummy it was!

Ingredients:
9x13 casserole dish (aluminum works great, and easy cleanup!)
6 large eggs
2/3 cup milk (any kind will do)
8 oz crumbled feta cheese
1 cup tomatoes, diced (I used Strawberry Tomatoes, cherry and grape are good subs)
1 cup kalamata olives, sliced
4 oz frozen spinach (I used half of an 8oz bag I found in the freezer section)
20 sheets of phyllo dough
1 stick melted butter

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Beat the eggs in a large bowl, you want to break them up and get them going before adding the milk, it is a pain to beat eggs with milk in them if they aren't broken up. Add milk and beat again to combine. Add tomatoes, spinach, and olives to the egg mixture.

Now for the tricky part, using a pastry brush, brush butter on the bottom and sides of the casserole dish. Lay down one sheet of phyllo dough in the bottom of the dish. Brush butter all over the top of that sheet. Keep adding one sheet at a time and brushing butter on the top of each sheet until you have 20 layers. This is a little time consuming but it helps make the casserole super special! ;0)

After you have 20 layers gently pour the egg, tomato, olive, and spinach mixture into the casserole. Top it off with the feta cheese and cover with foil, lightly not too tight.

Put into the preheated oven to bake. Mine took around 40 minutes to cook completely, but I checked it at 20 minutes and 30 minutes so opening the oven probably prolonged the whole cooking time. Look for the egg to be firm and cheese to be melted.

When it is done serve it up with a little drizzle of olive oil on the top. If your crowd does not like olives those can be left out and served on the side!


Enjoy, and don't forget to leave me your comments!
And as always, hold the nothing.
-Johnny