Unfortunately, spinach is not very popular with our housewives. Often it is used only as a green salad or added to borsch. A high price, a weak taste, a short shelf life and does not contribute to its introduction into the local cuisine. But when you find out how useful this leafy vegetable is and how many dishes you can cook from it, then surely change your mind.

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Beneficial features

The leaves of the plant contain a lot of substances useful for the body. It:

• vitamins: A, B, C, E, K, H, PP;
• chemical elements: potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, zinc, iron, copper, manganese, iodine;
• proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, sugars;
• cellulose;
• starch.

Such a diverse composition in one plant is very rare. And a number of vitamins in spinach have increased resistance to heat treatment and are stored in a ready dish.

Regularly using this herb, you can not only saturate the body with useful substances, but also cleanse it of toxins and toxins, improve metabolism, the state of teeth and gums, get more energy, resist stress, increase hemoglobin and visual acuity, strengthen blood vessels, normalize bowel function and pancreas, lose weight and prolong youth.

  Vegetables are on the list of the most desired products for a number of diseases. Its beneficial effect on the prevention of tumor development and recovery after radiation therapy is noted. Due to its excellent digestibility and rich composition it is recommended for pregnant and toddlers.

Its only drawback is the high content of oxalic acid. However, it accumulates only in old leaves, so people with rheumatism, gout, kidney and liver diseases need to use young shoots. Neutralize acid can also be done by adding milk or cream during cooking.

Learning to choose

If you buy fresh product, pay attention to the greens. It should be smooth, juicy, crunchy, bright green. If there are spots, refuse to purchase - most likely, these are traces of processing with chemical preparations.

Pay attention to the thickness of the stem. The bigger it is, the older the plant.

  Smell the bunch, if it has a rich, delicious aroma, it also indicates freshness. If you do not like the smell or is completely absent, then the leaves are not the first day torn from the beds and lost most of the vitamins.

When buying a frozen vegetable, keep in mind that the shelf life of the frozen vegetable does not exceed 4 months.

In addition, it is worth asking, where the plant was grown, because it has the property of accumulating poisons and heavy metals. If the farm is adjacent to industrial enterprises or located in ecologically unfavorable terrain, then from such a product you will only get one harm.

And now it's time to get acquainted with tips on how to prepare spinach properly and tasty.

Secrets of cooking

Before cooking, the grass must be washed cold water. Thick stems are pruned, young can not be removed.

If you want to cook spinach, put it in salted boiling water and keep it under the lid for only 1 minute. Strain through a colander.

It is even better to cook greens for a couple. This not only preserves the majority useful substances, but the leaves are not watery, but soft and moist. In the absence of a steamer, take a normal strainer or colander, put spinach in it and place it over a saucepan with boiling water for 3-5 minutes.

In the frying pan, the vegetable is cooked no longer than a minute.

The frozen product should be left to thaw in the refrigerator. This process is a little lengthy, but you will get all vitamins and minerals. After defrosting, squeeze out excess liquid and cook, as usual.

Stewed

We prepare the dish, which will be an excellent side dish to bacon or fish.

It will take:

• Spinach 1 kg
• Leek onion 4 pcs.
• Parsley 2 beams
• Nuts 2 handfuls
• Provencal herbs    pinch
• Salt / garlic to taste
• Warm water 1 tbsp.
• Olive oil 7 tbsp.

Rinse the greens well and cut into small pieces. Cut the onions with rings. Chop the parsley and nuts.

Fry the onion in olive oil. Then add the spinach with water. Cover and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Then pour all the remaining ingredients into the frying pan, stir and simmer for another 2-3 minutes until soft.

Remove from the heat and serve to the table.

Fried

Spicy appetizer   for a few minutes.

• Spinach greens 0,5 kg
• Onions 1-2 heads
• Soy sauce 1-2 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil    2 tbsp. l.
• Salt, pepper to taste

Rinse well and dry the leaves. You do not need to cut them.

Onion finely chop and fry over high heat, stirring, about 2 minutes. Put the leaves in the frying pan and fry for 2 more minutes. As soon as they become soft, pour in soy sauce, give spices, hold on for 1 minute and immediately serve.

Baked

Sprinkle onions in butter until soft. Add a clove of garlic. After a minute, pour the pre-cut and drained spinach (600 g) into the frying pan.

Enter a third of a glass of milk and 0.5 cup of cream. Turn off the fire. Mix everything with 4 tbsp. spoonfuls of parmesan, 1/4 cup of breadcrumbs or dried breadcrumbs, a splinter of dried marjoram, salt and black pepper.

Put the mass in the baking dish, moisten it with a little vegetable oil, sprinkle it with grated cheese and send it to the preheated oven for 40 minutes.

Serve hot.

Omelette

A simple dish for a nutritious breakfast.

It will take:

• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Spinach 100 g
• Olive oil 1 tsp.
• Parmesan 20 g
• Salt / pepper black and red    taste

Fry the sliced ​​or shallow leaves in olive oil for 2-3 minutes.

Eggs break into a separate container, add spices to them and beat them into a homogeneous mass. Pour into the greens and keep on fire until they "clutch". Remove immediately from heat. Sprinkle with parmesan on top.

Soups

We offer several options for light and vitamin first dishes.

With bacon

Ingredients:

• Spinach 500 g
• Onion 2 pcs.
• Butter 30 g
• Cream 200 ml
• Wheat flour 3 tbsp.
• Bacon 200 g
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Black pepper ground / salt    taste

Spinach clean, separate the dry leaves, wash and boil for 5-7 minutes. Grind it with a blender.

Bulbs cut into rings and fry. Add the flour and let it burn for another 3 minutes.

In a separate frying pan fry the bacon, sliced. Eggs cook and cut into slices.

Add the broth to the onion and cook over low heat. Then add spinach, other ingredients and spices to it.

With croutons

• Spinach and sorrel for 120 g
• Onions 1 pc.
• Garlic 2 tooth.
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• White bread for toast
• Vegetable oil
• Parsley salt, pepper    taste

Cut onion and fry. Add chopped spinach and sorrel. Pour about 1 liter hot water, bring to a boil and season with garlic and parsley.

Remove from heat, blend with a blender into a homogeneous mass.

Eggs boil and cut into halves. Bread dry in the form of cubes in a frying pan or in the oven.

Served portionwise with 1 tsp. olive oil, a piece of eggs and croutons.

Spicy cream soup

• Potatoes 4 pcs.
• Carrot 1 pc.
• Bow 2 Goals
• Garlic 2 tooth.
• Spinach 0,6 kg
• Celery 1 stalk
• Vegetable oil 100 ml
• Cream 1 tbsp.
• Oil 40 g
• Greens, salt, pepper    taste

Potatoes, carrots, celery and onion cook, pour, until cooked. Vegetables select and together with spices and a teaspoon of oil whip in puree.

Cut another onion and fry it with garlic and herbs in oil. Mix everything and blend with a blender.

Pour in cream broth, boil and mix with mashed vegetables. Refill to taste.

With cream

This is one of the most delicious recipes, which will become an ideal garnish for meat or fish.

It will take:

• Spinach 400 g
• Bow 1 head
• Garlic 3-4 cloves
• Cream 150 ml
• Vegetable oil    3 tablespoons
• Salt / pepper to taste

Shuffled leaves put in cold water   minutes for 10-15, then rinse them twice or twice and dry on a paper towel. Cut in small pieces.

  If you use frozen greens, first boil it in salted water (3-4 minutes from the boiling point).

Peel the garlic with one of the sides of the knife.

Onion chopped into small cubes.

Warm up in a frying pan butter, where to put the garlic, and as soon as you catch a pleasant garlic flavor, add chopped onions.

  The onion is browned until golden, and the garlic must be removed, it will no longer be needed in this dish.

Then put the chopped spinach into a frying pan, cover with a lid and simmer until tender.

  In the end, you need to add cream or very warm milk.

  Bring this mixture to a boil, add salt, pepper to your taste. And continue the process of extinguishing on a slow fire.

  After evaporating the milk turn off the fire. It's good to mix everything and you can serve it to the table.

Spinach is a spring leaf vegetable, and dishes from it can be not only very useful, but also incredibly tasty.

Today, the "Beautiful and Successful" women's website will tell you about how useful it is, how to choose it right, store it, what to cook with fresh spinach or frozen.

In Europe, spinach fell into the Middle Ages, and originally it was brought from Persia. Despite the different climate, it has perfectly taken root in European countries and today is no longer considered exotic.

The leaves of spinach have a mass of useful properties, and yet - a thin and tender taste. But, of course, it must be properly cooked.

Why is spinach useful?

Before you tell what can be prepared from spinach, it is worth mentioning why it is so useful and why it must be included in your diet.

• French chefs call this vegetable a "brush" for the stomach. Indeed, it has the effect of clearing the walls of the stomach and intestines from toxins and removing toxins naturally.
• There are a lot of vitamins in it - in particular, provitamin A, vitamins B, as well as C, PP, D and some others.
• In addition to vitamins, there are a lot of iron in the leaves - that's why they have a dark saturated color, as well as mineral salts.
• Surprisingly, this one is a true record holder for calcium content - in 100 grams of leaves, about 150 mg of calcium are contained (more than in a glass of yogurt!).
• Also, the leaves contain iodine, which has a beneficial effect on the thyroid gland, adds energy and prevents premature aging of the body.
• An important component of spinach is protein, which is why the leaves are nutritious and nutritious. The protein here is almost the same as in the beans and peas.

Young leaves are good to eat raw, and larger and darker ones - to stew, fry, cook, make garnish, prepare other recipes.

Choosing this useful vegetable, pay attention to the stem - it should be light color, elastic and juicy - this means that the vegetable is cut off quite recently. By the way, frozen leaves are not worse than fresh ones, and they can be reserved for winter.

What can I cook with fresh spinach?

How tasty to cook spinach ?.

It is believed that all the beneficial substances of these green leaves are well absorbed with fat and a small amount of acid.

Therefore, sour cream, kefir and a little vegetable oil is something that must be present in any dish.

Breakfast: green fritters

• Spinach - 200 g;
• kefir - 200 g;
• flour - about 150 g (you can add more or less, depending on the consistency of the mixture obtained);
• eggs - 1 or 2 pieces;
• spices to taste.

Grind the leaves in a blender, mix them with kefir, eggs, flour and spices, and whisk the whole mass thoroughly. It should turn out thick as sour cream. If the mixture is liquid, add more flour, or from it you can safely not fry thick pancakes, but thinner pancakes!

Do not forget to lubricate the frying pan with any vegetable oil.

Spring cream soup

• Spinach - 200 g;
• potatoes - 2-3 pieces;
• broth (chicken or vegetable) - 300 ml;
• cream - 200 ml;
• onion - 1 piece;
• garlic - 2 slices;
• spices to taste.

Pour directly into the saucepan, where soup will be boiled, a little vegetable oil and warm up. Cut finely onion and garlic, peel and cut small potatoes. Pass the onions and garlic in a saucepan, and then add the potatoes there. Fill all this with broth and allow to cook until ready. Add spinach leaves and cook for another 5 minutes, then pour in the cream and chop everything in a puree using a submerged blender.

Garnish in the frying pan

Many are wondering how to make fresh spinach for a garnish. We offer the simplest and very quick recipe, in which the leaves retain all their useful properties. So, we need:

• spinach - 500 g;
• garlic - 2-3 wedges;
•   - 200 g;
• spices to taste.

In a frying pan fry finely chopped garlic in vegetable oil. My leaves, remove roots and cut, add to the frying pan. When the leaves are extinguished a little, cover and cover for 5 minutes, no more. In the end, sprinkle the dish with grated cheese.

How to prepare frozen spinach?

Fresh leaves should be stored unwashed by wrapping them in a damp cloth. It is best to keep them in the fridge for no more than two or three days.

Now we will tell you how to prepare frozen spinach. Leaves must be sorted, removed wilted and damaged, remove roots and long stems, and rinse well under running water. Cut the leaves into thin strips and try (drop into boiling water) for a minute. Let drain water in a colander, put the leaves in containers or bags, freeze. From frozen spinach, you can prepare any dish by analogy with fresh.

Like these ones simple recipes   can be prepared from this vitamin leaf vegetable. In addition to useful properties, the dishes will be very delicate and delicious!

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  Author - Tatiana Maltseva, site www.site- Beautiful and Successful
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Among the various vegetables that can be seen on the shelves of stores, some we choose more often, some - sometimes, and some do completely bypass. Spinach belongs to the category of such vegetables, the preparation of which is not familiar to every Russian housewife, so we hasten to introduce you to this wonderful product and tasty dishes, which you can prepare with it.

Prepare from spinach you can have a variety of dishes - pies, casseroles, omelettes, soups, salads, fritters, snacks and even billets. Among the famous dishes that can be cooked with spinach are cabbage soup, green borsch, chorba, risotto, cabbage rolls and much more, so buying this vegetable in the store does not "condemn" you to preparing unusual, intricate dishes - you can use it and cook the most traditional, habitual and favorite dishes. And it will not only be delicious, but also very useful, because spinach is rich in useful substances and vitamins.

The native land of spinach is Persia, it was brought to Europe in the 11th century, and in our country it appeared quite recently in comparison with the western European countries.

Among the useful substances contained in spinach are potassium, magnesium, carotenoids (very rare in other foods, and there are a lot of them in spinach), B vitamins, as well as vitamin A, C, K, beta-carotene, fiber. Nutritionists call spinach one of the five most useful products   of all existing in the world. Regularly eating spinach is recommended to everyone who wants to be healthy, look good and maintain weight in the norm. Diseases that need to eat spinach - cardiovascular, macular degeneration, osteoporosis. It helps to prevent the occurrence of these diseases in old age, normalizes blood pressure, protects from strokes, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, prevents vision deterioration, softens and destroys bone tissue, inhibits the development of cancer tumors and is their effective prevention, promotes normal digestion of carbohydrates, proteins and fats . In general, to eat spinach is even very necessary for everyone who wants to feel good now and in old age.

What can I cook with spinach

As already noted, the number of dishes that can be made from spinach is huge, including the most traditional and familiar for the average resident of our country.

From fresh leaves of this vegetable, wonderful salads are obtained. However, most often in our country, useful spinach   can only be frozen. Best as fresh and frozen spinach is combined with potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, greens, meat, eggs, mushrooms, nuts, cottage cheese, cheese.

Among the spices that adorn the taste of spinach - nutmeg and ground pepper, but you can use other seasonings to your liking.

To begin with, we will cite a recipe for a fairly familiar dish with spinach - oladi.

Recipe for pancakes with spinach

You will need: 500 g of fresh spinach, 400 g of Adyghe cheese, 400 ml of milk, 250 ml of cream, 250 g of flour, 60 g of butter, 4 eggs, 1 tomato, onion, garlic, grated cheese.

How to cook pancakes with spinach. Combine the flour, eggs, milk, add salt and mix, knead the dough, leave it for 20 minutes. Prepare pancakes with melted butter. Finely chop the garlic and onion, peel and cut into cubes tomatoes. In butter, put out the garlic with onions, put the spinach, put out again, remove from heat. Mix the spinach mass with Adyghe cheese and tomatoes, pepper, salt, season with nutmeg and cinnamon. Sideways in fritters make cuts, stuff them with spinach mass. Put the pancakes in a greased form. Stir the cream with grated cheese, pepper and salt, pour pancakes, bake them in a preheated 200 degrees oven for 20 minutes.

Such a delicious and unusual dish can be prepared, just stuffing them with regular pancakes. If you want to make spinach, but spend less time on a dish with it, then a salad will do.

Recipe for salad with oyster mushrooms and spinach

You will need: spinach, onions, oyster mushrooms, vegetable oil, wine, lemon juice, nutmeg, sage, pepper, salt.

How to make a salad with spinach and. Finely chop the mushrooms with onions, fry in vegetable oil, pour in the wine, cover and until ready to put out. Finely chop the spinach, add to the mushrooms. Prepare the sauce from the juice of lemon and vegetable oil, seasoning it with nutmeg, sage, pepper and salt. Pour the salad with cooked sauce and serve.

This salad is not only very tasty, but also very useful. And you can apply it both to everyday and to festive table. If you want something else easier, you can make spinach with rice.

Recipe for cooking rice with spinach

It will take: 250 grams spinach and yogurt natural / kefir, 150 grams of rice, 2 eggs, 1 onion, cheese hard, 2-3 slices of lemon, ground pepper.

How to cook rice with spinach. Rice until ready to boil in the usual way - it should turn out friable. Onion finely chopped, fried in oil until soft, pepper, put slices of lemon, put out for 3 minutes, cool, get a lemon, stir with stirring yogurt or kefir. Rinse spinach, dip into boiling water for 3 minutes, then drain. Put the rice on the bottom of the pan, the next layer - chopped boiled eggs, then - spinach, everything is poured with cooked sauce, and sprinkle with grated cheese, bake for 20 minutes on medium heat until fully warmed.

Using the simplest products, with spinach you can prepare such an interesting and very tasty dish.

A good combination of spinach and fish.

Recipe for cooking a spinach and fish casserole

It will take: 500 grams of spinach and fish fillets, 2 cups of boiled rice, 1 glass of milk, 4 tablespoons. butter, 2 tbsp each. flour, vegetable oil, grated cheese, 1 tbsp. chopped parsley, salt.

How to cook a casserole with spinach. Cut the spinach, put out with butter and a little water. Pass the flour, pour in the heated milk, boil until thickened, and add it. In the sauce, add egg yolks, mix. Lubricate the baking dish, lay the boiled rice, lay out the pieces of fish, stewed spinach, pour the sauce over, sprinkle cheese on top, put butter slices, bake for 10 minutes in the preheated to 200 degrees temperature.

In addition to the second course, with spinach you can prepare and various soups, for example, such vegetarian cabbage soup.

Recipe for cabbage soup with spinach

It will take: 100 g of onion and spinach, 2.5 l of water, 150 g of cabbage, 1 bulgarian pepper   and carrots, 3 tablespoons. vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. tomato paste, 1 tsp. ground paprika, ½ tsp. cumin, sweet pepper-peas, salt.

How to cook soup with spinach. Water pour into a saucepan, put on fire. Vegetables cleaned. Dice the potatoes, put in boiling water, add salt, put the scented pepper, cover. Grate the carrots, finely chop the onions and tomatoes, cut the cabbage with straws. On vegetable oil 2 minutes fry onions, put carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, sprinkle with caraway seeds and paprika, mix, 5 minutes under the lid put out. Bell pepper   cut into cubes, put together with chopped spinach in a saucepan, add the vegetable mixture from the frying pan, cover and boil the soup for another 10-15 minutes, serve hot.

Spinach is one of those vegetables that, in spite of the unusual nature, definitely worth adding to the diet, try to prepare different dishes with this wonderful product, and any of the options will certainly suit you to taste.

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