Spinach Recipes?

mildredalien

Perhaps in a little filo or puff pastry parcel with spices and some cheese like feta?

CCP

Something like spinach and ricotta pasta bake would probably be OK - I've used home-frozen spinach for this before and, as long as you drain it well, you really can't tell that the spinach had been frozen.

Stephen_Leak

Sag Aloo (Indian spinach & potato curry). Spinach soup.

Soworried

I like the sound of the Sag Aloo, would you have a recipe please?

Would any other type of cheese work in the bake? I do not have any Ricotta and it is raining too heavy to even think about going out.:o

lostinrates

Is it the fact it is frozen or the fact it is not baby leaf spinach? its more commone to buy baby leaf stuff fresh. Mature spinach does taste more spinachy, less mild. But it is delicious. If you like baby fresh spinach give the mature frozen stuff a fair crack of the whip, you may come to like it.

Creamed spinach, just with a little dash cream and a grate of nutmeg is just heavenly when you like spinach, but until you have aquired the tatse you could try it with some cream cheese, which would soften the flavour a little more radically. Try a little in a fish pie. Perhaps?

Stuffed pancakes are just about my favourite thing ever. Spinach mixed with ricotta, or mascapone, or even cream cheese, rolled into normal pancakes, then baked in the oven under a blanket of sauce made with onion, carrot, celery and a tin of chopped (or fresh ) tomato and then a grating of something like cheddar for untuousness.


If comparing like to like, cooked adult spinach, then i think spinach is a veg that compared really well to fresh, and for me there are not so many of them.

shandyclover

Italian friend showed me this...

Let frozen spinach defrost to room temperature, squeeze out excess liquid through a colander or sieve, chop fine and mix in liberal amounts of crushed garlic, olive oil and lemon juice, serve as a room temperature 'salad'. Even my teenagers eat this.

CCP

Soworried wrote: »

Would any other type of cheese work in the bake? I do not have any Ricotta and it is raining too heavy to even think about going out.:o

Any kind of soft, creamy cheese would be OK - something like cream cheese, or a soft goat's cheese, or possibly even something like brie, although I haven't tried that one myself.

Another thought that's just occurred to me is a variation of saag paneer which I always enjoyed from an Indian restaurant where I used to live, and still make occasionally - the spinach was cooked with onions, garlic and mustard seeds (or a spoonful of wholegrain mustard if you don't have mustard seeds), then mixed with chopped cheddar cheese and baked. That one might be a bit of an acquired taste, though!

Stephen_Leak

Soworried wrote: »

I like the sound of the Sag Aloo, would you have a recipe please? <snip>

SPINACH & POTATO CURRY (SAG ALOO)

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

2 cloves of garlic
2cm (1 inch) piece of fresh ginger
3 onions
250g of potatoes
2 tablespoons of oil
200g (½ a 400g tin) of plum tomatoes
½ a teaspoon of chilli powder
1 tablespoon of garam masala
½ a teaspoon of ground turmeric
250ml of water
125g of fresh or frozen spinach

METHOD

Peel the garlic and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the ginger and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the onion and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the potatoes and chop them into 1cm (½ inch) pieces.

Put the oil into a saucepan on a medium heat. Fry the garlic, ginger and onion for about 5 minutes until they are brown. Stir frequently to stop it sticking.

Open the tin of tomatoes. Put the juice into a bowl. Chop the tomatoes while they are still in the can (it’s easier than chasing them around the bowl). Put the chopped tomatoes into the bowl. Put half the chopped tomatoes into the pan and save the other half.

Add the chilli powder, garam masala and turmeric. Stir thoroughly. Add the potatoes. Stir thoroughly. Continue to cook for another 5 minutes.

Add the water. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering). Put the lid on and cook for another 10 minutes.

Add the spinach. Cook for another 10 minutes.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

Use sweet potatoes.

Ben84

I hope you mean was frozen rather than is frozen? Anyway, assuming the first, I find it works ok in curry, but like most frozen vegetables it seems to add water to things as it thaws so spending a little longer cooking it solves this.

zippychick

ive merged this with the spinach thread which has loads of ideas

Zip