Creamed Spinach Good Enough to Snag a Husband
Recipe: #1085
October 22, 2011
Categories: Side Dishes, Spinach, Brunch, Christmas, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Low Carbohydrate, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Dinner, more
"This is really good, but not necessarily good for you. You can get fancy and use fresh spinach, but my palate really can't tell the difference. My pocketbook can, though! Don't serve this with a rack of lamb unless you want men pounding on your front door!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (244.4 g)
- Calories 287.4
- Total Fat - 22.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 13.8 g
- Cholesterol - 59.3 mg
- Sodium - 340.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 16.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.4 g
- Sugars - 7.2 g
- Protein - 7.2 g
- Calcium - 225 mg
- Iron - 2.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 20.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Thaw the spinach in a colander and use a cotton kitchen towel to squeeze out all the moisture. If you're using fresh spinach, cook it (microwave, steam, whatever) and squeeze it just the same. You don't want it to be watery at all.
Step 2
Melt 4 Tbsp. butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and stir until golden, about 10 minutes.
Step 3
Stir in onion and the bay leaf.
Step 4
Whisk the milk in slowly and continue to whisk until the mixture boils and thickens. Shouldn't take more than 10 minutes or so.
Step 5
Reduce the heat to low and whisk away. The sauce will be thick and need your attention!
Step 6
Remove the bay leaf or leaves. Add the spinach to the warm sauce and simmer until heated through, stirring often....no more than 5 minutes or so.
Step 7
Add the remaining butter and nutmeg. Add and adjust the salt and pepper to make it just the way you like it.
Tips
No special items needed.