What is the best way to eat spinach?
What is the best way to eat spinach?
I cheat by adding it to smoothies. I eat a pound of spinach a week.
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By tossing an entire can of spinach up in the air, catching it with your mouth, and then flexing your uncanny overly defined biceps.
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This really is the only answer. Spinach had been eaten like this for almost 100 years.
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Squeeze the can until it flies up and lands in your mouth.
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Raw in a salad. I find cooked spinach to be very unappealing, but raw is delicious.
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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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Saag paneer is a great dish. Spinach, spices, and cheese.
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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.
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Wilted with onion and garlic, or as mentioned, many Saag curries. I'm partial to Saag Aloo
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Saag. It's basically a smoothie, but warm and savory. Throw some potatoes in there, too.
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my recipe that my daughters love.
Blanch spinach (lots of it) blend it with parmesan (non American), walnuts, garlic, nutmeg, mascarpone.
Pour over pasta,
it's so good it's addictive
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I prefer spinach that I’ve sautéed with a bit of garlic and some olive oil.
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Lemon juice too! But yes, this is one of the many great ways to eat spinach
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Sautéed in garlic and olive oil is how I cook most things
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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.
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Cauliflower cake with spinach added is awesome.
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In some form of ravioli
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I steam it, then puree and mix into the sauce for mac and cheese, to trick myself into eating vegetables.
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I add it to soups. Sometimes I just have it raw as the vegetable side of a meal
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Lightly steamed with a little lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
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Raw on a sandwich or lightly fried in garlic butter. It's also great raw with a bit of oil, salt, and pepper, if you're feeling healthy.
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onions, potatoes, spinach, egg, done
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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)
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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
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The only way I can do cooked spinach in in Quiche.
Other than that I eat it raw as part of a salad or sandwich topping.
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My smoothie:
1 banana
1 handfull of fresh spinach
2 big spoons of greek yogurt
1 big spoon of cashew butter
Squirt of lime juice
Enough almond milk to blend
Ice
optional: protein powder and collagen
Add-ons: berries, matcha, mango, salt, flaxmeal, coconut milk, chia seeds
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I like it in a tuna salad. I chop up a cup of baby spinach, along with half a carrot and the same amount of telegraph cucumber. Mix a 180g can of tuna in oil through it, add some salt and pepper and it's a pretty good low carb lunch.
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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)
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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.
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Swimming rama for sure.
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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.)
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Sauteed, spinach soup, or as part of a noodle soup.
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Creamed
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Japanese gomae
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When I eat storebought pesto I add some blended spinach. After grating some extra permesan on top and adding a bit of EVO I don't really taste it anymore anyway
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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
Saag paneer.
This is really the right answer. Saag and Palak are the way forward, mix in mustard greens or collards too.
I also wilt it in a wok with garlic and use it as the core component of dumpling or bun filling, combined with tofu, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, onions or whatever else you want.
Saag aloo also amazing for the potato fans. Never been a big paneer fan myself.
This is the best answer but adding spinach to pesto is also pretty good.