Sundays Yummy Healthier Almost Creamed Spinach Recipes

CREAMED SPINACH

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter an 8 by 8-inch baking dish. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion and a pinch of salt. Saute for 3 minutes, then add the garlic and red chili flakes and saute for 2 more minutes. Add the heavy cream, Parmesan, and nutmeg. Heat until the cream is just beginning to bubble, stirring often. Turn the burner off and stir in sour cream and spinach. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper, to taste. Pour into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle the top evenly with fried onions. Bake until golden and bubbly, 15 to 20 minutes.

FAST AND EASY CREAMED SPINACH

Steps:

• Pour olive oil into a large soup pot, place over high heat, add spinach, and cover. Cook for 1 minute, uncover, and lightly stir until most of the leaves are bright green and wilted, about 2 minutes. Quickly drain spinach in a strainer and transfer to a plate lined with 4 or 5 paper towels. Once cool enough to handle, squeeze as much liquid from the spinach as possible. Transfer spinach to a cutting board and coarsely chop.
• Mix salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and nutmeg in a small bowl.
• Place a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter in skillet, and stir shallot in the hot butter until just barely golden and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir seasoning mixture into shallot mixture and pour in cream. Raise heat to medium-high and reduce cream sauce to about half, about 5 minutes. Stir in lemon zest.
• Reduce heat to low and toss spinach with cream sauce in skillet. Cook and stir until spinach is heated through and coated, about 2 minutes. Stir Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese into spinach until thoroughly combined; serve immediately.

OBAMA HEALTHY DELICIOUS CREAMED SPINACH

Steps:

• Cook spinach in water until limp [or better, steam in Oster Digital Food Steamer, cost $40 on amazon.com so you can "set it and forget it".
• Blend/puree cooked spinach.
• Gently fry shallots and garlic in olive oil and mix well with pureed spinach.
• Note, a slight touch of freshly grated nutmeg, a pinch of good quality curry or any favorite spice adds a lot to this dish -
• part of eating healthy, delicious and cheap!
• see recent NY Times piece on 12 foods costing less than $1 - oatmeal, garbanzo beans, tuna, kale, apples and bananas,etc -.
• it's time we gluttonous Americans stopped eating more than our fair share on a planet where billions are starving. It's conscionable -.

SUNDAY'S YUMMY HEALTHIER ALMOST CREAMED SPINACH

Steps:

• In a skillet or pan add the spinach with the rest of the ingredients.
• Turn the stovetop on medium.
• Stir the spinach every so often to mix the spinach and the rest of the ingredients together making sure the parmesan gets evenly distributed.
• After about 20 minutes on medium (if you choose to use that heat setting), the parmesan, butter and spinach should be warm, melted and thoroughly mixed.
• Serve and enjoy :).