Spinach sauce

Creamy sauce with herbs for favorite dishes. Spinach does not have a sharp taste and smell, so the sauce with this greens is combined with many dishes. It is prepared on the basis of cream and gives the dishes a delicate creamy taste. The sauce will be a great addition to pasta, as well as to fish or meat.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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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

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 25 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To prepare the spinach sauce, you will need: spinach, cream, hard cheese, olive oil, salt, lemon juice, herbs of Provence, garlic.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash spinach greens, dry well, chop finely.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Heat olive oil in a frying pan, put spinach.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Simmer the greens for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    To add piquancy to the sauce, you can add garlic. It needs to be cleaned, washed, passed through a press. You can finely chop the garlic.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Chop the cheese on a fine grater.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Add garlic and herbs of Provence to the spinach.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Mix everything, simmer under the lid for 5 minutes, stirring.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Pour cream into the pan, add salt, mix. Bring the sauce to a boil. Cook on low heat for 2 minutes.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    To make the sauce get a more viscous consistency, add grated cheese. Cheese will also enhance the creamy taste of the sauce.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Let the cheese melt completely over low heat with constant stirring.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Remove the sauce from the heat, pour in the freshly squeezed lemon juice, mix.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Let the sauce stand under the lid for 3 minutes. Pour the sauce into a saucepan, serve warm. Enjoy your meal!

When preparing the sauce, cream can be replaced with low-fat sour cream.
Spinach sauce can be prepared not only in the summer season, but also all year round, using freshly frozen greens.
To make the consistency of the sauce homogeneous, you can grind it with a blender.

The creamy taste of the sauce is perfect for pasta, because the union of cheese, cream and pasta is a classic combination. The sauce is also suitable for baked, fried, stewed fish or meat chops. Seafood will be no exception.
Spinach sauce completely transforms the taste of any dish, makes it more expressive.

Fresh spinach contains vitamins A, K, C, E, folic acid, iron.
But also this useful greens contain oxalic acid, so you should not include dishes with spinach in the diet of people with kidney diseases.
Oxalic acid is partially destroyed by heat treatment. To neutralize it, spinach is best cooked with the addition of cream or milk.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Buttermilk - 36   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 20 % fat content - 300   kcal/100g
  • Cream of 10% fat content - 120   kcal/100g
  • Cream - 300   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "lo spalmino" - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Spinach - 22   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Herb Mixture - 259   kcal/100g

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