The spinach they are among the most versatile vegetables that can be brought to the table. Quick to prepare, tasty, suitable for many recipes, they are also ideal for eating some vegetables to children.

Who – for reasons of time or opportunity – does not want or cannot buy them fresh spinach can find in frozen spinach an excellent alternative: already cleaned and ready to be cooked, they are perfect to keep in the freezer for any recipe and for a last minute lunch or dinner.

Frozen spinach, like all other vegetables and legumes preserved in the cold, keep the nutrients and they provide an excellent intake of vitamins, fiber, mineral salts and proteins.

How to prepare frozen spinach

There are many ways to cook frozen spinach: boiled, steamed, in the pan or with the microwave.

If you choose to boil them, the advice is to do it in one pot with little water (spinach already contains a lot of it in nature) and little salt when they are still frozen and the water has reached a boil. They must cook for a maximum of 7/8 minutes and then they must be drained with the help of a colander and squeezed a little more with a fork. So they can season with olive oil and lemon and serve.

For cooking frozen spinach vaporinstead, just put them out of the freezer in the steamer or in the pressure cooker, add two glasses of water and cook them for 3/4 minutes. Steaming preserves the natural tenderness spinach and avoids the dispersion of nutrients.

Who wants to prepare them in a pan can make a stir-fried with oil and garlic (or onion) and then add the spinach, still frozen, cooking them for about ten minutes or at least until they have softened.

Another fast method that preserves the vitamins and minerals that contain frozen and fresh spinach is the microwave cooking. It will take 7 minutes at a power of 1000 W for a preparation that leaves him soft vegetables and tasty.

The recipes with frozen spinach

Spinach is, as mentioned, among the most versatile vegetables that can be used in the kitchen. Here are some examples: come on first dishes to savory pies, passing through creams, buns, soups, a roll as an aperitif, velvety, main courses of meat and of fish, with the eggs and even for a centrifuged detox to keep fit.

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