{"id":914,"slug":"creamed-spinach","title":"Creamed Spinach","description":"Creamed spinach makes a nutritious sauce that goes well with fish and meat dishes. In Swedish cuisine it has traditionally been used with boiled potatoes and fish or with chipolata, the Swedish \"prince-sausage\". Creamed spinach can be done in two different ways: either with whole spinach or with chopped spinach.","ingredients_raw":["500 g fresh spinach (or whole frozen spinach leaves)","2 dl water","½ dl cream or 1 tbsp butter","½ tsp salt","Black pepper","400 g of chopped spinach, fresh or frozen","1 ½ tbsp flour","1 dl milk"],"ingredients_norm":["fresh spinach","water","cream or tbsp butter","salt","black pepper","spinach fresh or frozen","flour","milk"],"steps":["Boil the fresh spinach leaves and the salt in the water for about 5 minutes. If you use frozen spinach, follow the instructions on the box.","Drain away the water, and let the spinach dry for a minute or so.","Put the spinach back into the pan and add the cream. Simmer for a few more minutes.","Add salt and pepper to taste.","Boil the fresh spinach leaves as in variation I, or gently thaw the frozen chopped spinach in a little bit of water in a pan.","Mix the flour with the chopped spinach in the pan, and add the milk.","Bring the spinach to the boil, and simmer gently for 3–5 minutes.","Add salt and pepper to taste."],"categories":["Sauce recipes","Recipes using spinach","Recipes using cow milk","Boiled recipes","Side dish recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using cream","Recipes using wheat flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":10,"servings":"4","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Creamed_Spinach","source_ref":"4524018","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Creamed_Spinach&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"e8fc37ce43b1731493a1b32c4d4530954be5f121d44e9efb87d7a52c0931a562","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:00Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:00Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/creamed-spinach"}