Spinach is called the king of vegetables because of its usefulness and ability to enrich even the most with flavors.

Both frozen and fresh herbs look great in tart fillings, ravioli, and the creamy sauce is just the perfect addition to traditional pasta.

So, today on our table is frozen spinach and a recipe for stewed greens with cream with step by step photos.

And immediately the good news: I just love light, nutritious meals that can be made from everything in the fridge.

Our pasta in creamy spinach sauce will be just that.

Frozen spinach - recipe for making a side dish

Let's start with the ingredients:

1. 1 box frozen spinach (400g)
2. 3 small onions
3. 200 g cream of any fat content
4. 30 g butter
5. 250 g of pasta (enough for a full meal for three people)
6. Salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste

Step 1:

Step 1. Prepare the necessary ingredients

Do not defrost the spinach on purpose. We just put it on a plate and do the other ingredients.

Step 2:

Step 2. We are waiting for the onion to become translucent and acquire a pleasant creamy aroma

Melt the butter in a frying pan. Chop the onion in half rings and fry until golden brown.

Step 3:

Step 3: Cook the spinach until tender

We also send pieces of spinach there. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

Step 4:

Step 4. Finally, add the cream

Pour the cream in a thin stream. Let's put out a little.

Salt, pepper, add spices. I chose nutmeg, but basil, dill, fennel, parsley and citrus zest go well with spinach.

You can use a couple tablespoons of lime or lemon juice as an extra dressing to make the taste more sour.

Step 5:

After another five minutes, turn off the finished dish. Something like this looks like ready-made spinach in a creamy sauce:

Step 5. Appetizing and healthy spinach is almost ready

Step 6:

Step 6. Mix the finished sauce with boiled pasta

Now all that remains is to put the pasta on a plate and decorate the dish beautifully, because food should not only bring our taste buds into ecstasy, but also bring up aesthetic beauty.

If you wish, you can diversify the serving with balls of soft cream cheese - it will give you a few more flavors.

Tip: if you do not want pasta to settle on the sides, choose only a product made from durum wheat. This pasta is cooked for ten or more minutes. The bigger, the better.

Bon Appetit! And traditionally, a few words about why spinach is so cool and why it needs to be eaten in large quantities at any time of the year.

Spinach is deservedly considered the king of vegetables.

5+ Benefits of Spinach

1. It contains four times more than the required norm of vitamin K (and you will also find vitamins A and C, calcium, iron, beta-carotene in it, this list can be continued for a long time)
2. For the ability to cleanse the body and have a good effect on the digestive tract, the French nicknamed him "a broom for the stomach"
3. Imagine, despite 20 calories per 100 grams, it is nutritious, stimulates the satiety process and fights cholesterol.
4. Prevents the formation of cancer cells
5. Most of all greens are grown in China, and in the USA they even shoot cartoons about him and erect monuments - the pirate Popeye, having eaten spinach, literally acquired heroic strength
6. 90% water and ideal for vitamin-rich vegetable smoothies
7. The native land of the vegetable is Persia (from Persian the word "spinach" literally translates as "green hand")

Spinach is literally made for smoothies.

Frozen spinach - 5+ recipes with photos

Phali

Those who have been to Georgia know that pkhali, light with spices, is cooked there literally from everything.

They use cabbage, eggplant, nettles, grape leaves, broccoli,.

Thanks to proper processing, almost all nutrients are preserved in the dish, and a small list of ingredients makes it also cheap.

You can also put frozen spinach on pkhali.

Phali

For the cooking recipe, we take:

1. 500 g frozen vegetable
2. 50 g walnuts
3. 2 cloves of garlic
4. Half a teaspoon of wine vinegar
5. Dry adjika on the tip of a knife
6. Two stalks of green onions
7. Half a bunch of basil, dill and cilantro
8. A slice of chili for hot lovers

Cook the spinach in salted water for five minutes, discard it in a colander, drain and squeeze.

Finely chop the herbs and garlic.

Grind the walnuts in a blender or crush with a rolling pin.

Combine the ingredients in a deep bowl, season with adjika and vinegar, salt.

Tip: By the way, in ancient times, spinach juice was used as ink. So any dish you add it to will automatically take on a green tint.

French tart with cheese and spinach

I really love spinach, I often buy it and prepare various dishes from it or just add it to salads. Today I propose to cook Spinach stew with cream.

I will not describe in this article how useful spinach is.

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Stewed spinach with cream

Despite the fact that we add cream to this vegetable dish, it turns out to be low in calories - 270 Kcal. per serving. The energy value of spinach is only 17.9 Kcal. per 100 gr. Well, it is better to take low-fat cream. I usually buy a carton of 16 - 18% cream. Therefore, stewed spinach with cream can be advised for those who are losing weight.

To prepare 4 servings, we need:

• 1 kg. fresh spinach
• 1 young onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 4-5 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil
• 200 ml. cream,
• 1/2 lemon peel,
• salt,
• ground black pepper.

1. Wash the spinach and remove any stained leaves, if any. Peel the onion and garlic and chop. Heat olive oil in a large skillet and simmer onion and garlic for 4 to 5 minutes over low heat.

2. Add spinach and mix well. Increase the fire a little. Cover the pan with a lid and continue simmering for another 10 minutes until all the liquid has evaporated. Remember to mix everything up sometimes.

3. Pour in the cream and salt. Continue simmering spinach over low heat for another 5 minutes. Season a little and add lemon peel, cut into thin strips.

Arrange the stewed spinach with cream on plates and serve hot.

Bon Appetit!

I suggest you listen to the famous song "Bésame mucho" performed by Cesaria Evora - "barefoot diva" (1941-2011)... She spoke barefoot as a sign of solidarity with the poor. The song "Bésame mucho" was written in 1940 by a young Mexican woman Consuelo Velazquez Torres(1916-2005) and very quickly became one of the most famous songs of the 20th century. It has been performed by many singers and singers. The Beatles often performed this song at their concerts, although it was not recorded on disc. Paul McCartney admitted that this bolero song inspired him to create the famous "Yesterday".

Spinach is a widely cultivated crop in agriculture in many countries. It would seem that the grass is simple for itself - without a special taste and smell, outwardly similar to sorrel, and it has more than enough admirers. Like different types and varieties of salads, spinach is widely used in cooking fresh, boiled, steamed, stewed and baked. It is added to salads, soups and borscht are cooked, meat and fish are baked and stewed with it, delicious sauces, pies and even desserts are prepared on its basis.

What dishes can you cook with this sauce? It turns out incredibly tasty with spinach in a creamy sauce, ravioli, mushrooms, spaghetti, chicken, pasta, various fish, in particular cod, salmon, pink salmon. Basically, this sauce will be a great addition to any meat or fish dish. Personally, I really enjoy adding it to any kind of pasta. Tasty, not the right word. I highly recommend giving it a try. And yet, fresh spinach, like most greens and herbs, quickly loses moisture, and, consequently, its appearance.

Stuck leaves of garden spinach, before starting to cook from them, should be poured with cold water and wait at least half an hour. This time is quite enough for them to be saturated with moisture and become, like they had just been plucked from the garden.

Ingredients:

• Spinach - 300 gr.,
• Butter - 50-70 gr.,
• Cream - 1 glass
• Salt to taste
• Hard cheese - 100 gr.,
• Spices optional.

Spinach in a creamy sauce - a step by step recipe

Cooking this starts with preparing the spinach and cheese. Wash spinach leaves under running water. Cut off the stems. Dip the leaves with a towel. Fold into a bun and cut lengthwise into strips.

Rub the cheese on a medium grater.

Place the pieces of butter in a hot skillet. After melting, add the chopped spinach.

Cream it immediately.

Stir with a spatula and simmer for 5 minutes. A prerequisite, the sauce must be stewed over low heat.

After the spinach leaves are juiced and soft, add the grated and a pinch of salt to the sauce.

For a variety of taste, it is fashionable to add black or white pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, coriander to the sauce. Although it should be remembered that any spices must be used with caution so as not to interrupt the taste of the finished sauce. Spinach in a creamy sauce with cheese should be stewed for about 5-4 minutes.

Ready sauce is served separately to the dishes listed above at the beginning of the recipe, or mixed with it. Enjoy your meal. Either way, you can always customize this basic spinach creamy sauce recipe. I recommend cooking as well.

Spinach tastes great, is low in calories and rich in trace elements (such as iron). Therefore, spinach is equally good for dietary and low-calorie nutrition. Fresh spinach leaves are not always available for sale, but if you are a fan of this product, then this recipe is for you.

You can cook frozen spinach with cream for a side dish in ten minutes. It's fast.

Ingredients:

• frozen spinach - 400 g;
• bulb;
• cream 12% - 100 ml;
• a tablespoon of vegetable oil, salt and pepper.

Preparation:

Take a package of spinach out of the freezer and chop the frozen spinach into small pieces with a knife. Let's leave them on the table for thawing and some softening. There is no need to defrost it specially.

Finely chop the onion and begin to simmer it in a frying pan in oil. Do not fry the onion, just sauté it a little so that the onion is saturated with oil and becomes transparent.

After a couple of minutes, add the spinach to the pan, mix with the onion and cover the pan with a lid so that the onion and spinach are steamed together.

After another five minutes, pour 100 ml of cream (12% fat) into the pan, stir and simmer for a few more minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

A few tablespoons of stewed spinach with cream can be a side dish with fish or meat, or it can be a separate dish. Cooked spinach is also a great addition to boiled potatoes or rice.