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Spinach question

Mrsmac247

Mrsmac247

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Dumb question if the day, but how do you prepare spinach? The type you but in the supermarket packet.

Can you east it straight out the packet? Every time I cook it, it ends up as sludge!
 
I eat spinach raw in a baby leaf salad!
Mixed with different sorts of leafy veg, very good for you!

You can get it separately in some supermarkets!
 
Another one for a salad constituent, it's also chopped up in a recipe I use for home-made beefburgers (along with feta cheese, tomato, onion, garlic, salt & pepper).
 
Two varieties offered over here, the usual delicate leaved type, and another call New Zealand spinach ,coarser and much thicker leaves. Not really spinach by definition, discovered by Captain Cooks sailors looking for some much needed green stuff on the voyage there.
 
Thank you everyone for the responses. I am preparing a mince, cauliflower and cheese bake and brought the spinach to put on the plate. I think I may try it raw with a touch of olive oil
 
Does not matter which way you eat it ..... even "sludge" ... squeeze of lemon juice will fix that up.

It is a wonderful addition to any meal
 
Mrsmac247 said:
Dumb question if the day, but how do you prepare spinach? The type you but in the supermarket packet.

Can you east it straight out the packet? Every time I cook it, it ends up as sludge!
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For cooked spinach I rinse mine twice, sometimes three times in a colanders with boiling water water poured over it - just enough to wilt it, not sludge it. Add a knob of butter afterwards.

I also use it as an extra layer for an adapted cottage pie or fish pie before the topping goes on, and in place of pasta for a low carb lasagne.
 
I like to put spinach raw in smoothies as the other ingredients hide the flavour but I'm still getting the good stuff from it
 
I like it in salads raw, but it's also lovely wilted with some butter and grated nutmeg
 
You can turn the sludge or frozen spinach in to a cream of spinach soup. cook it with some butter and nutmeg, add stock home made from chicken carcass/bones or from a stock cube, add seasoning and plenty of cream and whizz up until mixed smooth.

Robbity
 
You can also mix it with crème fraiche as here http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/632308
(I've never actually cooked it myself since one of the few premade foods that I buy is this sort of spinach.
In France they sell it frozen in little cubes. It's a great standby and can be used as almost a sauce, a filling in buckwheat crepes; delicious with a little crispy bacon and parmesan mixed in or just as a veg)
 
I always wash it, bc you can get e.coli from it I whack in the wok with Ras el Hanout and butter or pile it in frittatas. Good for salad too.
 
Celeriac said:
I always wash it, bc you can get e.coli from it I whack in the wok with Ras el Hanout and butter or pile it in frittatas. Good for salad too.
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Likewise, always wash spinach and all salad ingredients, even the pre-packed salad leaves that say they have already been washed prior to packaging.
 
Wash well in cold water shake throw in dry pan with some. crushed garlic put lid on pan cook for about 1minute shaking regularly add knob of butter serve with poached or boiled egg salt and black pepper
CAROL
 
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