Spinach with Roasted Garlic
Servings: 4 shares
Roasting garlic in olive oil develops its flavors without being aggressive, and gives a subtle twist to spinach. We often don’t know how to cook spinach, yet delicious and full of iron, vitamins and minerals. With cream? Okay, but a bit heavy! Nature with butter? Not really tasty. So, how do you cook spinach?
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Ingredients
- 800 gr spinach
- 1 bulb garlic 8 to 12 cloves
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
- salt
- pepper freshly ground
Instructions
Prepare spinach
- Cut stems, remove damaged parts. Wash and drain. Heat a large saucepan without any fat. When hot, throw spinach in and cook until it loses its vegetation water and reduce in volume. Remove water that appeared while cooking.
Prepare garlic
- While spinach are cooking, peel garlic cloves. Cut them in half and remove germs. Then cut into thin strips. Heat olive oil in a frying pan (be generous) and fry garlic slices.
Finally
- When garlic turns brown, pour them, with the olive oil, in the sauce pan containing spinach and heat for a few minutes to warm spinach and let them absorb roasted garlic flavors.
- Salt and pepper. Serve as a side to meat or fish.
Notes
The main steps: Roasting garlic in olive oil develops its flavors without being aggressive and gives spinach a subtle twist. Briefly cook spinach. Fry garlic slices. Combine and briefly cook together.