Creamed Spinach Recipe
Creamed Spinach as the name suggests, is spinach tossed in a spiced creamy white sauce. This delicious cheesy, creamy side dish can be served with meat roasts or can also be used to stuff sandwiches or savoury crepes. For a variation you can add boiled corn kernels to the creamed spinach.
Serve Creamed Spinach Recipe as a dip along with Garlic Bread or as a side dish along with your Italian Meal.
If you like this recipe, you can also try other Italian recipes such as
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2-3 Servings
Ingredients
- 5 sprig Spinach Leaves (Palak) , washed
- 1 Onion , finely chopped
- 4 Garlic , minced
- 2 tablespoons Butter
- 2 tablespoons All Purpose Flour (Maida)
- 2 cups Milk , (or use half milk and half cream)
- 1 teaspoon Mustard powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg , grated
- 1 teaspoon Whole Black Peppercorns , crushed
- 3 tablespoons Cheddar cheese , or cream cheese (optional)
- Salt , to taste
How to make Creamed Spinach Recipe
To begin making the Creamed Spinach first blanch the spinach leaves in boiling water till they just wilt (about a minute).
Drain in a colander and rinse with cold water.
Squeeze out the water and roughly chop the spinach.
In a pan heat the butter. Add garlic and onions and sauté till the onions just soften.
Sprinkle some salt and pepper. Add the flour, stir and cook for a minute.
Gradually whisk in the milk. Cook stirring till it thickens.
Add the mustard powder and cheese or cream cheese and mix.
Stir in the spinach, nutmeg and cook for a few seconds. Serve hot.
Serve Creamed Spinach Recipe as a dip along with Garlic Bread or as a side dish along with your Italian Meal.
Madhuli Ajay
Giving up a lucrative career tinkering with Analytical equipments, Madhuli Ajay chose to tinker in her Food lab- developing new recipes & satisfying her culinary travel cravings. She has been sharing heirloom recipes on her blog 'My Foodcourt' for the past 9 yrs. Madhuli bakes to feed her soul. Testing recipes & photographing food for a cookbook, has fuelled her food photography passion. Based in the gorgeous 'Wine Capital' of India Nashik, Madhuli also loves spending time in her little kitchen garden.
