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Creamed spinach is a dish consisting of a spinach coated in a creamy sauce, which can be used as side dish or topping. It is a common side dish at
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s but can be found at found in everything from frozen TV dinners, fast casual, to gourmet restaurants and North American and European home dishes.


Preparation

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's recipe for creamed spinach in one dish uses chopped spinach, garlic, salt, pepper, cream, cheese, and a little oil prepared in a pan. French style creamed spinach or ''épinards a la crème'' has some variation but still considered creamed spinach; chef
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's recipe includes spinach, butter, flour, salt, pepper, and beef stock or heavy cream, and made in a saucepan.
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's creamed spinach recipe includes spinach, butter, onion, garlic,
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, milk, ground nutmeg, salt, and pepper. The spinach is usually trimmed of the stem, cleaned, and chopped. It can also be part of another more complicated recipe, for example in Oreilles d'âne layers of crepes or in a more modern version lasagna pasta or (see
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) are placed in alternating layers with creamed spinach and grated cheese.Two ''oreilles d'ânes'' recipes
/ref> It is also used in eggs Sardou for example, the New Orleans classic. Creamed spinach has been suggested a component of
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. There are other creamed greens dishes, such as creamed
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, but the dish ''potage creme d’epinards'' (cream of spinach soup) is a different dish. Suggestions as to the popularity of the dish note that the cream balances the bitterness of the spinach, it adds color to a plate, and is relatively healthy containing vitamins A, C, and K, iron, calcium, and fiber although some recipes can have considerable fat content. Steakhouses that serve creamed spinach, usually with their own special recipe, include
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, Strip House, and Benjamin's Steakhouse. Recipes vary and some do not contain actual dairy cream. A famous restaurant in Chicago known to serve creamed spinach is The Berghoff founded in 1898. Creamed spinach is served at the oldest steakhouse in the US,
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in New York City founded in 1868. Creamed spinach is also served by NASA on spaceflights.


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for NASA spaceflights


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Spinach soup Spinach soup is a soup prepared using spinach as a primary ingredient. A common dish around the world, the soup can be prepared as a broth-based or cream-based soup, and the latter can be referred to as "cream of spinach soup." In China, a spinac ...
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Spinach dip Spinach dip (sometimes casually spin dip) is a Dip (food), dip that uses the vegetable spinach as a primary ingredient.Creaming (cooking) Creaming is used to refer to several different culinary processes. In baking, it is the blending of ingredients with a softened form of a solid fat. When a dish is described as being "creamed", it may mean that it has been Poaching (cooking), po ...
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Creamed corn Creamed corn (which is also known by other names, such as cream-style sweet corn) is a type of Creaming (food), creamed vegetable dish made by combining pieces of whole sweet corn, sweetcorn with a Soup, soupy liquid of wikt:milky, milky residue f ...
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Green bean casserole Green bean casserole is an American baked dish consisting primarily of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and french fried onions. It was popularized in the USA from a recipe printed on a soup can starting in the 1950s. It is a popular side ...
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Cream of mushroom soup Cream of mushroom soup is a simple type of soup where a basic roux is thinned with cream or milk and then mushrooms or mushroom broth are added. In North America, it is a common canned condensed soup. Cream of mushroom soup is often used as a ...
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Palak paneer Palak paneer () or palak chhena is an Indian dish consisting of chhena or paneer in a thick paste made from puréed spinach, called palak in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and other Indian languages. The terms palak chhena and saag chhena are s ...
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