Best Spinach recipe
photo by ScrapyTiff
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 500 g fresh spinach or 500 g frozen spinach
- 3 eggs
- 2 slices bread (any type)
- 25 g butter
- 25 g flour
- milk
- salt and pepper
- ground nutmeg (optional)
directions
- First prepare a béchamel: Melt the butter in a saucepan.
- Add the flour and mix well.
- Pour some milk little by little, stirring continually with a wooden spatula to incorporate the milk into the mixture.
- Continue pouring the milk until obtaining a thick white sauce (a little less than a pint of milk should do).
- Season with salt and pepper. You can add ground nutmeg to the white sauce to improve the flavours.
- Next, prepare some boiled eggs.
- Then, put the spinach with a tablespoon of water in a saucepan and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes (a bit longer if using frozen spinach).
- When cooked, salt the spinach and move it into the sauce.
- Mix well.
- To make the croutons, break the bread slices into bite size pieces.
- Melt a knob of butter in a frying pan and brown the bread each side for a few minutes Remove the bread from the pan.
- Pour the spinach mixture into the frying pan and maintain on a low heat to keep the spinach hot until serving.
- Sprinkle with the croutons on top.
- Cut the boiled eggs in half and serve in plates with the spinach and croutons.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
I am French but now live in Ireland with my husband Liam (you can guess he's not French with a name like that!)
I have been cooking since I'm 12 and have fond memories of watching my mum cooking when I was a kid. She taught me a few recipes and I have enriched my recipe database along the years.