What on earth do I do with a bag of frozen spinach?

[snafu]

I've just bought a big bag of organic frozen spinach. I'm not quite sure why. What can I do with it?

I had the vague idea of mixing some into ds's ubiquitous tomato pasta, but that's about it. Any suggestions for mouthwatering, scrummy, delicious things to do with blobs of frozen spinach?

gorgeous on pizzas!

stick it in any sauce, curry, lasagne, anything involving ricotta is mmmmmmm

cook it, squeeze water out thoroughly, mix with cheese and stuff into pitte bread.

i love spinach

I mix it with boiled rice, so when giving dd some chicken curry with rice, her rice has a block or two of spinach added to it (good way of getting more veggies down her)

Im a spinach fan too - maybe thats why I look like Popeye

Oooh, thanks. I do love spinach when someone else cooks it - just can't remember ever having cooked it myself before. I bought some nice Taleggio cheese as well - maybe I could make a pizza with that?

I might try and find a recipe for sag aloo...yumyum...

Great in Thai Chicken Green Curry!!

Use it in fish pies. Gorgeous.

I put it in bolognese. I just chuck the cubes in when adding the tinned tomatoes etc.

This thread should be renamed:

'Wonderful, versatile Spinach'

I thinking about starting a similar thread - What on earth do I do with mung beans - to see if that floors everybody

Put it in omelettes with some cheese.
Ds 98 mths) has this for lunch nearly every day.

You mean you haven't tried my fab spinach and chickpea curry, snafu???!!

moondog - have you put the recipe for that curry onto here in the food section - sounds nice!

I know, I'm feeling rather now as obviously there are gazillion things to do with frozen spinach!

Moondog, what's the recipe?! I've got a tin of chickpeas a-lurking somewhere - I was going to do chickpea and sweet potato curry from Sainsbury's mag but I could be persuaded otherwise...

so moondog your DS is 8?

mung beans? - I don't know but Gillian Mckeith has got a cookbook out so I'm sure there will be recipes in that!

hi MD, are you home again?

put in oven proof dish with a bit of creme fraiche, salt and pepper, crack an egg in the middle and cook in the oven until egg is done (Epinards a la Florentine) delicious!

Bung into lentil soup, with garlic and cumin and lemon juice, yummmmmmmmmy, I'm making that tomorrow!

Spinach soup - fry some chopped onion, mix in the thawed spinach (squeeze water out first), add stock, nutmeg and pepper, cook for about 10 mins, then blend until smooth. Add a drop of lemon juice and, if you want, some cream.

Make a mushroom risotto and stir in thawed spinach at the end (having squeezed the water out first). Gives a lovely texture.

Stuffed spinach and cheese pancakes (make a cheese sauce, warm up the spinach and take out the water)?

Er yes..ds is 8 months!

OK, my recipe (all very vague)

Fry onions, garlic and chillies (to taste) until brown. Add some good curry paste ( eg Pataks). Then add a tin of chickpeas, stir a bit, then add tin ot tomatoes,some tom puree and spinach (fresh or frozen) Simmer for maybe 25 mins (less if using frozen spinach.)
Serve with rice and a yoghurt,cucumber and mint raita.
Even better reheated!

oldiemum, will CAT you know re rugby..

I was laughing Moondog because you had typed 98months and I had to respond. Sorry!

Keep it in the freezer as a handy ice pack in the event of sprains.

Seriously, I bought some once and thought it tasted disgusting. Ended up throwing it away.

my fave with frozen spinach is adding it to fried onions and mushrooms as a side veg with a meal - the only way dh can get me to eat it! oh and a little garlic with it too.