Kittencal's Sausage Spinach Squares
Recipe: #423
October 12, 2011
Categories: Side Dishes, Pork Sausage, Appetizers Spinach, Christmas, New Years, Oven Bake, more
"Serve this as a side dish or slice into small squares and serve in paper muffin liners as appetizers, these make a great finger food and will be enjoyed by everyone! These may be cooked hours in advance and warmed on a baking sheet/pan in the oven to crisp up, make these as spicy as you like by adjusting the cayenne pepper or using spicy sausage meat, servings is listed at 30 this is of coarse only estimated you may slice any size that you desire."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (61.1 g)
- Calories 127.1
- Total Fat - 8.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.6 g
- Cholesterol - 42.1 mg
- Sodium - 292 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 5.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 0.8 g
- Protein - 7.5 g
- Calcium - 195.9 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 3.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2
Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
Step 3
In a skillet cook/brown the ground beef or sausage meat; drain fat, then set aside for a few minutes (if you are making this without the beef then omit this step).
Step 4
In a large bowl whisk the eggs until frothy; add in milk, flour, garlic powder, salt, cayenne pepper, baking powder and 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese, mix vigorously until well blended (can use an electric mixer for mixing).
Step 5
Add in the cooked ground beef, chopped onion, 4 cups cheddar cheese and spinach; mix until well combined.
Step 6
Season with fresh ground black pepper to taste.
Step 7
Place the butter cubes in the baking dish and place in the oven to melt for 10 minutes).
Step 8
Transfer/spread the spinach mixture into the hot baking dish.
Step 9
Sprinkle the top with remaining 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese.
Step 10
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until firm and golden brown (for a crispier square bake longer).
Step 11
Cool slightly then cut into desired size squares.
Tips
No special items needed.