Creamy, cheesy and full of flavor – this Creamed Spinach makes the perfect side dish to any weeknight meal and is ready in about 15 minutes!
Want a fast, delicious and easy side dish to whip up during the week? This Creamed Spinach will be your new go-to recipe. Minimal ingredients made from fresh spinach make this recipe one of our all-time favorites to whip up in a flash. It will fit right in as your new fav Keto creamed spinach dish to keep you on track through your journey. Something about this goes perfect with one of my favorite pork chop recipes; you’ll thank me later!
CREAMED SPINACH
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We love simple and classic dishes in our house. Anything I that can whip up fast with fresh ingredients draws us in; this Creamed Spinach recipe is exactly that.
Now I know that a lot of people, mainly kids turn their noses up at the thought of spinach, but in reality, it is really delicious and so good for you!
What is Creamed Spinach
- Fresh spinach
- Butter
- Garlic
- Flour
- Half and half
- Parmesan cheese
- Nutmeg
- Salt and pepper
These are ingredients we usually have in our pantry the majority of the time because we are those people that will add spinach to a lot of our pasta meals, my kids have come to love it!
Now half and half isn’t something that we always on hand, but you can substitute half heavy cream and half milk because essentially that is what half and half is, you can also make creamed spinach with cream cheese so no worries with that ingredient.
Some other creamed recipes we love are these Creamed Potatoes and this Slow Cooker Creamed Corn! We love those alternative side dishes so much because they are classics!
We serve this creamed spinach recipe alongside our Southern Oven Fried Chicken a lot of the time. The flavors of the two as a meal go well together.
HOW TO MAKE CREAMED SPINACH:
- Fill a large stockpot with water and a pinch of salt and bring to a boil.
- Once boiling, add spinach and stir until it starts to wilt about 1 minute.
- Drain into a colander in the sink and immediately spray with cold water to stop the cooking process.
- Once cool, with your hands ring out the spinach to get as much water out as possible and set aside.
- In a saute pan on stove melt your butter and then add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
- Stir in your flour and cook for another minute then whisk in your half and half until thickened.
- Once the mixture becomes thick add in your parmesan, nutmeg, salt, and pepper until combined and melted.
- Finally, stir in your spinach until coated.
This recipe is straightforward and seriously amazing. You really will have to try it out yourself to see what I’m talking about!
More delicious side dishes!!
- BLT Pasta Salad
- Curried Couscous with Broccoli and Feta
- Lemon Butter Broccolini
- Pecan Rice Pilaf
- Pear Pomegranate Stuffing
- More Side Dish recipes…
Tools used to make this Creamed Spinach
Stockpot: This pot is a kitchen essential for everything from dinner to desserts. I use mine all the time and with proper care, it’ll last for years and years.
Colander: This set makes draining anything easy and I love that they collapse for easy storing.
Saucepan: I don’t know what I’d do without this saucepan. It gets used in my kitchen every day.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Fill a large stockpot with water and a pinch of salt and bring to a boil.
- Once boiling, add spinach and stir until it starts to wilt about 1 minute.
- Drain into a colander over the sink, and immediately spray with cold water to stop the cooking process.
- Once cool, with your hands ring out the spinach to get as much water out as possible and set aside.
- In a saute pan on stove melt your butter and then add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
- Stir in your flour and cook for another minute then whisk in your half and half until thickened.
- Once the mixture becomes thick, add in your parmesan, nutmeg, salt, and pepper until combined and melted.
- Finally, stir in your spinach until coated.
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