Best spinach recipes??

[DancingOnGrass]

Hi,
I 'd like to eat more spinach but i need some inspiration. Can you give me some ideas or recipes please? Thank you.

I throw spinach into everything and anything! It works great in indian style recipes- theres a good one here

Baby leaf spinach is lovely in salads too.

Wash it thoroughly, drain, then chuck in a large pan. Heat over a high heat, stirring all the time, till it is just wilted.

Drain.

In the same pan, melt a large knob of butter and add a finely chopped clove of garlic, cook gently for a minute or so (on a very low heat), then tip the spinach back into the pan, stir it all together and then serve.

Spinach with pine nuts and lemon with pasta, or with fetta and lemon
Bacon, crouton and spinach salad
Wilted into curries or noodles.
I often just steamstirfry a huge bag and eat as it is.
Love it.

spanokopita
spinach sorrel and gruyere tart - can post recipe if you like, this is the best tart I've ever made

Right, this is a recipe for a spinach sandwich and it sounds horrible, but tastes great. Steam spinach and drain, cool. Add chopped fried mushrooms and chopped cherry tomatoes. Mix it all up with mayonnaise and put it in a sandwich. This was a sandwich option at an Italian deli near where I used to work in Central London. I became rather addicted to them and, being a country girl, nicknamed them 'silage sandwiches'.

There's a good spinach and cheese pie on mumsnet recipes. My kids can't get enough of it (I like it too)

Wow! Many ideas!

Thank you all!

moondog can i have the recipe with feta, lemon, pasta please?

taffetacat can i have both recipes if you have time? Thanks

Chickpea, chorizo and spinach stew.

Rigatoni Fiorentina (pasta with a traditional garlicy basily tomato sauce, wilted spinach, topped with grated cheese and breadcrumbs and baked).

Spinach lasagne.

Spinach in any kind of vegetarian curry, especially if it also includes potatoes.

Spinach goes well with lamb, too.

I got loads of spinach in my veg box last week... made a very tasty and very quick frittata (sp?) type thing, with mushrooms and potatoes. was v. nice!

spanakopita

Spinach sorrel and gruyere tart

300g spinach
100g sorrel
200ml double cream
100 ml milk
3 eggs
1 tsp dijon mustard
freshly grated nutmeg
half tsp cayenne pepper
200g grated Gruyere
salt and black pepper
100g pine nuts

For shortcrust pastry

500g plain flour
half tsp salt
250g unsalted butter
1 beaten egg
ice cold water

To make pastry, sift flour with salt and rub in butter or pulse in food proc until breadcrumb like. Add enough beaten egg and iced water to bring pastry together into a ball. Wrap in cling film and fridge for a min of 30 mins.
Preheat oven to 200C/Gas 6. Roll out chilled pastry and use to line a greased 22cm tart tin. Prick bottom of tart with fork, cover with a round of greaseproof paper or foil and weight down with baking beans. Bake blind for 15-20 mins, take out of oven and turn oven down to 180C/Gas 4, remove beans and lining paper/foil. Put on baking sheet.
Pick over spinach and sorrel leaves, removing any tough ribs. Cook until tender and drain thoroughly (sorrel goes olive sludgy colour so do this for about 20 secs only ). Chop very roughly.
Mix cream, eggs, milk, and add mustard, Gruyere, grated nutmeg, cayenne. Season to taste.
Spread out greens on pastry case. Scatter over pine nuts and pour over cream mixture. Cook tart for 30-35 minutes and serve warm.

My all time favourite meal.

Oh more ideas! All sound nice, thanks. I'll have no excuse now

Mountainmonkey i looked at your link but i have no idea what paneer is

Taffetacat, thank you very much.

I'm very but... (whispering)what is sorrel?

lamb and spinach curry:

500g diced lamb
1 onion
2-3 cloves garlic
1 heaped tbsp curry powder or your favourite spices
I bag fresh spinach
tin of brown or green lentils
fresh coriander if you like it
couple of fresh chillies if you like it hot.
cream if you're not watching weight.

Chop onion, garlic and fry with lamb, adding spices once the meat is sealed and the onions are clear. Fry for a minute or two more, stirring often. Add mug of stock or water with a pinch of salt. After about 15 mins add tinned lentils and fresh spinach and stir in until spinach has wilted. Add cream at the end if you want, with chopped coriander and chillies.

I've posted two other spinach recipes recently on other threads. Spinach pasta and spinach burgers - both of which are much tastier than they sound! (Sorry too knackered to hunt down the threads tonight. I will if you're interested.

DOG
I don't really have or follow recipes but summat like this..

toast 150 g of pinenuts-careful as they burn easily/ Set aside.
Prepare box of pasta-I like Barilla best.
When nearly ready, steam a BIG pack of spinach. Leave with lid on and heat off. Chop through in pan with two knives or has tendency to clump.
Add to drained pasta, with juice of two lemon, big slug of oil, packet of crumbled fetta and the pine nuts.
Serve.

I often add a couple of handfuls of chopped spinach to macaroni cheese.

Same sometimes with Daal

Sorrel is a lemony herb/salad leaf that looks like spinach. you could just omit it and add extra spinach if you can't get hold of it. It justs adds a background note of lemon which is nice.

I grow it, its dead easy and is lovely in summer salads. Its very much a spring/summer thing, if you have a local farmer's market they may have some from next month.

Oh thanks, i'm, getting excited now with all this recipes!

Tonight am going to try taffetacat's tart. With extra spinach instead of sorrel. Next two weeks i will try the rest. My family will turn into Poppey's

realitychick, i'd love the burgers recipe. I 've tried to search 'spinach burgers' or 'realitychick' but no luck. If you have time can you post it please?

One more ignorant question: can i use frozen spinach in some of the recipes? Maybe in the curry? General speaking what are the rules re frozen spinach? (did i mention i'm useless in the kitchen?)

Frozen ok in a curry-add very last minute though as so frail it just turns to gree foam.

It won't really pass muster anywhere else.

Hi, sure

500g minced meat - usually beef or port
6-8 nuggets of frozen spinach, defrosted
2 slices of wholemeal bread, breadcrumbed (I use the crusts as DCs won't eat them.)
1 bulb fennel - finely chopped
1 onion (I use red)
1 garlic clove
pinch of herbs, salt, pepper and tiny pinch of grated nutmeg - all optional
2 eggs.

Put all ingredients except breadcrumbs and meat into the blender and blend until totally smooth and a bit foamy.
Put meat in a mixing bowl, add the blended veg and stir until really well mixed, then add breadcrumbs and mix again. Form into burger sized patties (about 10 burgers) and grill in a solid based pan or with foil over the wire mesh. Turn once. When you first turn them there's bit of liquid around the burgers but it's gone by the time they're cooked both sides. Serve in buns with salad, or with oven chips or savoury rice. All kids I've ever given them to love them and don't even notice the spinach.

if you're veggie you can use quorn mince instead, but maybe only use 1/2 fennel bulb and 6 spinach chunks as the mix might be wetter. or add more wholemeal bread.

Hi, sure

500g minced meat - usually beef or port
6-8 nuggets of frozen spinach, defrosted
2 slices of wholemeal bread, breadcrumbed (I use the crusts as DCs won't eat them.)
1 bulb fennel - finely chopped
1 onion (I use red)
1 garlic clove
pinch of herbs, salt, pepper and tiny pinch of grated nutmeg - all optional
2 eggs.

Put all ingredients except breadcrumbs and meat into the blender and blend until totally smooth and a bit foamy.
Put meat in a mixing bowl, add the blended veg and stir until really well mixed, then add breadcrumbs and mix again. Form into burger sized patties (about 10 burgers) and grill in a solid based pan or with foil over the wire mesh. Turn once. When you first turn them there's bit of liquid around the burgers but it's gone by the time they're cooked both sides. Serve in buns with salad, or with oven chips or savoury rice. All kids I've ever given them to love them and don't even notice the spinach.

if you're veggie you can use quorn mince instead, but maybe only use 1/2 fennel bulb and 6 spinach chunks as the mix might be wetter. or add more wholemeal bread.

Sorry - posted twice - not sure what happened.

Taffetacat that spanakopita recipe sounds gorgeous. I make one with spinach, feta and chilli seeds in ready bought filo pastry, but have never put pine kernels in. Goiung to try that very soon.

I 'm so happy, the tart was yummy!!!! Even so i didn't have nutmeg. I think this will be my 'dinner party' dish as it is really good.Thank you.

realitychick, no veggie, i'll make it with beef. And... is that bottle of port or half?

So glad you liked it.

There's a big difference between frozen chopped spinach and frozen leaf spinach, though. I use the former just to add a bit of colour and extra flavour/depth to things like a curry - sometimes in casseroles. The latter is better in pasta as it holds its shape - by the time it's cooked you can see it's a leaf.

I haven't tried it where it's the main ingredient in anything, such as the tart, but I was very pleasantly surprised at how well it works as a frozen veg - I usually avoid anything other than peas and sweetcorn like the plague!