Things to Make with Spinach- 10 Ideas

Spinach is a tasty ingredient that will add earthy flavours to your cooking, and there are many things to make with spinach. Unfortunately, many people do not know what to make with this ingredient.

There are many reasons you should add some more spinach to your diet. Primarily, it is packed with nutrients, meaning that including spinach in your diet will give you various vitamins and minerals you need to maintain good health. This leafy vegetable is particularly good for getting vitamin D in your diet, which is important for your general health.

However, it is one of those ingredients with which people are often unsure of what they can do. If you use your imagination and understand what flavours work well together, there are many things to make with spinach.

You can include it in snacks, soups, starters, curries, vegetarian or vegan dishes, as an accompaniment, and to colour other ingredients.

To give you some inspiration for using this ingredient, here are ten ways you can use this ingredient in your cooking.

10 Things to Make with Spinach

1. Spinach and potato soup: Spinach adds a delicious flavour to any soup but works particularly well with potatoes. Cook the potatoes until soft, then add the spinach and season with salt and black pepper. Blend to the consistency you prefer. There is an excellent recipe for this soup on our sister site.
2. Spinach and ricotta cannelloni: Combine the filling ingredients and add to partially-cooked cannelloni tubes. Cover with grated cheese and bake in the oven.
3. Green pasta: If you make pasta dough, add this leafy vegetable to the mix. Not only will this turn your pasta green, thus making it more colourful, but it will also add a little more taste.
4. Spinach and mushroom ravioli: Fill ravioli parcels with a mixture of butter, chopped mushrooms, and butter. Serve with a sauce of your choice, such as a creamy mushroom sauce. You can use the same filing for pancakes.
5. Spinach and cream cheese stuffed chicken: Add a mixture of cream cheese and this leafy vegetable to the centre of a chicken breast before baking in the oven.
6. Saag aloo: An Indian dish that combines spinach, potatoes, and spices. It can be eaten as a vegetarian main or as a side dish. Other variations of this dish are sweet potato saag aloo and saag bhaji.
7. Eggs Florentine: Eggs Florentine is a simple dish for breakfast, brunch or lunch. It is a toasted muffin topped with sautéed spinach and a poached egg. Delicious and really easy to make.
8. Super salad: Raw spinach is just as tasty as it is after cooking, so add some of these leaves to other salad leaves, sliced red onions, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped cucumber, and a dressing of your choice.
9. Cauliflower and spinach curry: Cauliflower is an excellent ingredient to use in vegetarian dishes. They have an amazing flavour and are filling. Create a cauliflower and spinach curry with this recipe. You might also like to try kala chana saag.
10. Lamb and spinach curry: Lamb works well with greens, so adding some of this green, leafy vegetable to a lamb curry is the perfect combination.

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There are plenty of more things to do with spinach. If you have some interesting ideas for using this ingredient in your cooking, feel free to comment below.

At The Fruity Tart, we love to hear from our readers and hope you would like to share your ideas and thoughts. In turn, your ideas can also help to inspire other readers of this site.

You might also like to read our ideas for things to make with blue cheese and our article about things to do with avocados.