Spinach with Potatoes, simple Recipe for Lent
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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My Spinach with Potatoes Recipe I show you in this post.
The popular Blubb vegetable comes today freshly cooked on the table.
Even Popeye would leave the cans on the shelf.
As a vegetarian dish it goes well with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and traditional Lent.
During the year, a simple Food Combining food creates balance.
The preparation I show you with many photos, you can cook the step by step simply by yourself.
Today we leave the frozen spinach in the supermarket and enjoy a freshly cooked meal.
I wish you good luck, if you have any questions just use the comment function at the bottom of the page…
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Leaf Spinach with Potatoes
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Below you will find the step-by-step instructions with many photos.
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Spinach with Potatoes
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide for vegetarian dish spinach with potatoes.
Ingredients
Prepare potatoes | ||
150 | g | Potatoes |
1 | tsp | Salt |
1/2 | tsp | Caraway |
Parsley | ||
5 | pinches | Pepper |
3 | pinches | nutmeg |
Prepare cream spinach | ||
1 | kg | leaf spinach fresh |
2 | pc | shalotts (or yellow onions) |
1 | pc | glove of garlic |
30 | g | butter |
1 | cup | Cream (or soy cream) |
1/4 | tsp | Salt |
4-6 | pinches | Pepper |
1 | Pinches | Cayenne pepper |
4 | pinches | nutmeg |
1 | tsp | cornflour (to the sauce bind or 1 tsp linseed) |
30 | ml | Water |
1 | pc | Lemon |
Dekoration | ||
some | thyme (I also like to use daisies as decoration) |
Instruction
Boil the potatoes
Cook potatoes
Cook the potatoes in plenty of salted water with the skin on.
You can add parsley stalks and some caraway seeds.
You can now prepare the cream spinach…
Peel potatoes
Drain the potatoes later, rinse briefly and peel.
Prepare potatoes
Put the potatoes in a pan, add some butter and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
prepare spinach with cream
Clean spinach
Wash the spinach leaves in plenty of cold water and change the water 2-3 times depending on the degree of soiling.
Sand and other unwanted substances can only be removed by washing and moving the spinach several times in water.
Place the leaf spinach on a sieve and drain or squeeze.
Remove stalks
Remove the stalks from the leaves or leave the stalks on the leaves for more fibre in the vegetables.
Onion and garlic
Halve and peel the shallots and garlic clove.
Both ingredients are easier to peel halved! and cut finely into cubes.
Please use a sharp knife and do not chop the ingredients.
Cutting onion
Cut the peeled and halved onion into fine cubes.
Cut garlic
Cut the peeled garlic into fine litters.
Do not press the garlic, it will become bitter in taste.
Sauté onions
Sweat the prepared garlic and onion cubes in a large pot or in a high pan with the butter for a few minutes until translucent.
Spinach supplement
Add the washed and drained spinach leaves.
Cook spinach
Cook the leafy vegetables with lid over high heat for 2-3 minutes, the leaves collapse.
Prepare cornstarch
Mix the starch in cold water.
If you stir the starch in cold water and then add it to the hot liquid, the starch will not clump!
Add cream
Add the cream and bring to the boil once.
Flavour with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and nutmeg and leave to stand next to the stove without lid.
Spinach finish
Mix the spinach with a hand blender.
Bring the creamed spinach to the boil again before serving and season to taste.
Add some butter, ghee and lemon juice.
Arrange
Serve
Heat the potatoes, bring the cream spinach to the boil, arrange on warm plates, decorate with flowers and herbs and serve quickly.
Enjoy your meal!
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Keyword
2. Nutritional Values
3. Spinach Info
The green leafy vegetable is a real wonder stuff.
The leaves contain vitamins A, B1, B2, niacin, B6, C and E, plus potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and folic acid.
The ingredients are not only healthy, recent studies prove, the green miracle prevents cravings and helps with weight loss and diet.
You can serve spinach leaves mixed as creamed spinach or unmixed as spinach leaves. Both variants taste delicious.
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