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Spinach with Potatoes, simple Recipe for Lent

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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…

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.

Servings 2
Calories 701
Preparation Time 15 Min.
Cook Time 30 Min.
Total Time 45 Min.

Simple guide for vegetarian dish spinach with potatoes.

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Spinach with potatoes recipe picture.
Spinach with potatoes recipe picture © Thomas Sixt

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

Preparation step 1
Cook potatoes with their skins on.
Potatoes peeled in salted water with caraway seeds.

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…

Preparation step 2
Peel the boiled potatoes
Peel the boiled potato

Peel potatoes

Drain the potatoes later, rinse briefly and peel.

Preparation step 3
Potatoes in the pan
Potatoes in the pan

Prepare potatoes

Put the potatoes in a pan, add some butter and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.

prepare spinach with cream

Preparation step 4
Wash the spinach
Fresh spinach leaves, please wash in water.

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.

Preparation step 5
Clean the spinach leaves
Clean the spinach leaves, remove the stems or leave them on, that is a matter of taste.

Remove stalks

Remove the stalks from the leaves or leave the stalks on the leaves for more fibre in the vegetables.

Preparation step 6
Halved garlic and halved onion.
Peel the garlic and onions.

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.

Preparation step 7
Cut the onion into fine cubes.
Cut the onion halves into cubes.

Cutting onion

Cut the peeled and halved onion into fine cubes.

Preparation step 8
Finely dice the garlic.
Cut the garlic into fine cubes.

Cut garlic

Cut the peeled garlic into fine litters.

Do not press the garlic, it will become bitter in taste.

Preparation step 9
Sweat the vegetables.
Sweat the onion and garlic until translucent.

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.

Preparation step 10
Spinach with onions and garlic clove in a pot.
Add raw spinach to the onion and garlic.

Spinach supplement

Add the washed and drained spinach leaves.

Preparation step 11
Freshly cooked spinach
Spinach cooked with a lid.

Cook spinach

Cook the leafy vegetables with lid over high heat for 2-3 minutes, the leaves collapse.

Preparation step 12
Mix the cornstarch.
Mixing cornstarch to thicken.

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!

Preparation step 13
Cooked spinach with cream before mixing.
creamed spinach with starch, cream, salt, pepper, nutmeg and cayenne pepper before mixing.

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.

Preparation step 14
Prepare and mix the spinach.
Mix up the spinach with the hand blender.

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

Preparation step 15
Potatoes nicely served with spinach.
Creamed spinach served with potatoes, flowers and herbs.

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!

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.

Clean and prepare spinach Step picture
Clean the spinach, remove the stalks …
Spinach prepared and served without cream.
Serve the spinach without cream.

4. Further Suitable Recipes

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