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Spinach sauce

Spinach Sauce

A creamy sauce with greens for your favorite dishes. Spinach has no sharp taste or smell, so a sauce made with it goes with all kinds of dishes. It's built on cream and gives dishes a delicate, creamy flavor. The sauce is a great match for pasta, as well as fish or meat.

Julia

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Spinach

100

Cream (15-20%)

130

Hard cheese (like parmesan or maasdam)

Olive oil

Lemon juice

Garlic

Salt

Herb mixture (0.5 tsp)

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 19 % 5 g

Fats 69 % 18 g

Carbohydrates 12 % 3 g

235 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 25 min

Step 1:

To make the spinach sauce you'll need: spinach, cream, hard cheese, olive oil, salt, lemon juice, Provençal herbs, and garlic.
Step 2:

Wash the spinach, dry it well, and chop it finely.
Step 3:

Heat the olive oil in a skillet and add the spinach.
Step 4:

Simmer the spinach for 3 minutes, stirring now and then.
Step 5:

To give the sauce some zip, you can add garlic. Peel it, wash it, and put it through a press, or chop it finely.
Step 6:

Grate the cheese on the fine side.
Step 7:

Add the garlic and Provençal herbs to the spinach.
Step 8:

Stir everything together and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes, stirring.
Step 9:

Pour the cream into the skillet, salt it, and stir. Bring the sauce to a boil. Cook over low heat for 2 minutes.
Step 10:

To give the sauce a thicker consistency, add the grated cheese. The cheese will also boost the sauce's creamy flavor.
Step 11:

Let the cheese melt completely over low heat, stirring constantly.
Step 12:

Take the sauce off the heat, pour in the freshly squeezed lemon juice, and stir.
Step 13:

Let the sauce rest, covered, for 3 minutes. Pour it into a gravy boat and serve warm. Enjoy!

You can replace the cream with low-fat sour cream. You can make spinach sauce not only in summer but year-round, using frozen spinach. To make the texture smooth, blend it with an immersion blender. The sauce's creamy flavor is perfect for pasta — the marriage of cheese, cream, and pasta is a classic. The sauce also pairs well with baked, fried, or stewed fish, or with meat chops, and seafood is no exception. Spinach sauce completely transforms the flavor of any dish, making it more expressive. Fresh spinach contains vitamins A, K, C, and E, plus folic acid and iron. But this wholesome green also contains oxalic acid, so dishes with spinach shouldn't be part of the diet for people with kidney disease. Oxalic acid is partly broken down by cooking; to neutralize it, it's best to cook spinach with cream or milk.