Stewed spinach in butter is an excellent side dish for fried chicken, which can be cooked in a few minutes. So how to cook it deliciously? Below is a recipe. Cooking stewed spinach is a very quick process, it won’t take much time. It can be used as an addition to any side dish. But, before you start cooking, do not forget to rinse the leaves of spinach well so that they do not have any land or sand left on them.
Ingredients:
- spinach leaves - 500 g;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- olive oil or melted butter;
- salt to taste:
- ground black pepper to taste;
- butter - 50 gr;
- juice of one lemon.
How to stew spinach:
- If the leaves are small, then you can not cut them. If large cut them not very finely
- Peel, finely chop 2 cloves of garlic.
- Preheat the pan, pour some melted butter - it can be replaced with olive if necessary. Then put the garlic, fry it until golden brown. Immediately add spinach to the pan, salt, pepper, quickly and quickly mix everything for 2-3 minutes. In a pan, spinach should decrease in volume by 3-4 times.
- Then put it in a colander, pour over with cold water so that it does not lose color. Let the excess juice drain.
- Place the pan in which the spinach was fried again on the fire. Put a piece of butter on it. As soon as it begins to bubble, add spinach leaves to the pan, squeeze the juice from one lemon there. Mix everything thoroughly, taste it. Add salt, pepper, if not enough.
Serve the stewed spinach on the table immediately.