Cheesy Baked Spinach and Eggs

Submitted by Kittencalrecipezazz

"Egg and cheese infiltrate the spinach in this creamy dish, it's a wonderful dish to serve at a holiday or brunch buffet, or it makes a nice weeknight dinner, you can substiture frozen chopped spinach in place of the fresh if desired. The cayenne is optional, add in for some heat. For a lower fat recipe use low-fat milk and mozzarella cheese and reduce the butter amount."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 -2 tablespoon fresh minced garlic
• 1 lb fresh spinach (cleaned, stemmed and cut into strips)
• 2 teaspoons seasoning salt (to taste) or 2 teaspoons white salt
• 2 cups grated mozzarella cheese, divided
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• black pepper
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• 4 large eggs
• 1⁄4 cup 18% table cream or 1/4 cup half-and-half cream
• cayenne pepper (optional)
• 1⁄3 cup grated parmesan cheese (or to taste)

directions

1. Set oven to 350 degrees.
2. Butter a medium casserole dish.
3. In a large saucepan melt butter over medium heat; add in onion and garlic, saute for about 3-4 minutes.
4. Add in fresh spinach and seasoned salt, reduce the heat to low.
5. Cover and steam for about 5 minutes; remove from heat.
6. Sprinkle 1 cup (or more) mozza cheese into the bottom of the casserole dish, then spoon the spinach mixture over the cheese.
7. Sprinkle the paprika, nutmeg and black pepper over the spinach.
8. In a medium bowl beat the eggs with cream and cayenne pepper (if using) pour over the spinach mixture.
9. Top with 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese (or to taste) then sprinkle with remaining 1 cup mozzarella cheese.
10. Bake uncovered for about 15-20 minutes or until the cheese bubbles.
11. Let stand 5 minutes beeefore cutting.

Reviews

[AprilShowers]

Delicious!! I used 5 oz. fresh baby spinach and a 10oz. box frozen chopped spinach mixed together. Didn't have any onion or paprika, left out the cayenne. The nutmeg added a very nice flavor! We really enjoyed this dish.

 

[CookingTimeForMe]

I wanted to give this a three, my hubby wanted a five, so we settled on four. This was very tasty, but just too greasy/salty for me. I'll definitely make this again, but this time I'm only going to use a 1/4 cup of butter and no seasoning salt. Still, I don't think my husband will leave me alone until I make this again! Thanks for posting.