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RECIPE: Creamed spinach
CATEGORY:
Vegetables
COUNTRY: International
SERVES: 6
INGREDIENT: 2 ten ounce bags of fresh
spinach, 5 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 cup hot milk, 2
tablespoons salt and pepper to taste.
DIRECTION: Wash spinach and discard
stems. Chop the leaves. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in large saucepan, add
spinach. Cover pot until spinach becomes limp. In a small saucepan melt 3
tablespoons butter and blend in the flour. Stir and cook for 2 minutes
without coloring the flour. Whisk in 1 cup of hot milk.
Season with salt
and pepper and
simmer until thickened. Pour the cream sauce into the
spinach and blend together and simmer for 2 - 3 more minutes. ( serves 6 ).
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