I cheat by adding it to smoothies. I eat a pound of spinach a week.
Sauteed, spinach soup, or as part of a noodle soup.
Raw in a salad. I find cooked spinach to be very unappealing, but raw is delicious.
Just keep in mind that uncooked it’s goitrogenic, which in enough quantity can disrupt your thyroid function, especially as you age.
Getting enough iodine in your diet can offset that.
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Got it, adding iodine to my smoothie.
I toss in greek yogurt(high in iodine) for that goodness and some citrus to get the iron from the spinach.
Ah, I didn’t know that about greek yogurt, which I eat a good amount of.
Seaweed is the iodine source I usually think of.
Ooh good to know. I make a lot of quinoa sushi rolls, too. (also with spinach)
Is that quinoa being substituted for rice? If so, that sounds pretty interesting, especially because I stay far away from rice, nowadays.
Yeah, and I just like the texture more. Sometimes I rice up parsnips with the quinoa for a pretty interesting texture/flavor. You can follow sushi rice recipes to prep it. I don’t cook the parsnips.
For filling I matchstick any combo of carrots, cucumbers, SPINACH, beets, peppers, whatever, and let 'em marinate in a tiny splish splash of tamari and sesame oil. Add avocado when rolling. Meat is optional but encouraged, if that’s your thing.
Sounds good; thanks for sharing!
Over here, I’ve been enjoying Vietnamese spring roll wrappers (not fried) to make my rolls, these days. I think maybe I’ll try quinoa as a base next time, in place of my beloved SCO (steel-cut oats).
Creamed
the traditional way is to blanch the spinach then press out the water, but I would recommend lightly dry frying it in a nonstick pan to get it cooked and slightly dehydrated with minimal nutrient loss
I add it to soups. Sometimes I just have it raw as the vegetable side of a meal
If you’d like a recipe, this one is one of our favorites and my husband typically doesn’t like veggies at all. He loves it. (Please ignore that it comes from a meal kit service; this one doesn’t even use any custom spice blends so it’s easy to do on your own. We tried the kit thing slightly before and during COVID but have long since discontinued it.)
Saag paneer is a great dish. Spinach, spices, and cheese.
Lots of great ways to serve spinach here already. A few more:
- Veggie lasagna. Be sure to wilt and squeeze out excess moisture, otherwise you can end up with a soggy lasagna
- Strata with bacon
- Creamed, and cooked low and slow. Spinach slowly releasing its juices into milk/cream is incredible. Usually with a cheese similar to gruyere or comte. Be sure to grate in some nutmeg. Scratches a similar itch to saag if you want something like that but different
- Florentine anything, but I’m partial to omelettes
- As with most darker leafy greens, added soup or pesto (or if you have a better term for the non-basil family of uncooked smashed leaf/oil/salt/nut or seed/cheese sauces)
Wilted with onion and garlic, or as mentioned, many Saag curries. I’m partial to Saag Aloo
Boil it and serve it in a bowl, not on your plate. (You can’t get all the water out and I HATE it when water seeps out to the rest of my meal)
Hmm, I don’t add extra water when I cook spinach. I just wash it, fill up my pot with it, throw in salt and a splash of oil, then the kid on top.
After a few minutes, I’ve got a couple spoonfuls of tasty goodness.
…I did just notice the typo, but I also threw myself away laughing, so I’m keeping it.
Depends on the reason you are eating it. A baby spinach salad is the healthy way I like best it’s easy enough to eat a 1/2 to 1 pound at a time.
My favorite spinach dish is a Stouffer’s Spinach Soufflé. It’s the opposite of healthy. I used to cook it to a soft set and use it as a chip dip. It became my go to dip to replace artichoke dip
I steam it, then puree and mix into the sauce for mac and cheese, to trick myself into eating vegetables.
Squeeze the can in your hand til the top pops off, and just gulp the spinach as it shoots out of the can. Every kid who watched Popeye cartoons has seen this.
In some form of ravioli
Bake it into pies and pastries, form it into patties and fry it, add it to omelettes and pastas, turn it into a dip or creamy sauce…so many good uses for spinach. I add it to protein smoothies too.
Cauliflower cake with spinach added is awesome.
