If you are looking for quick and easy recipes with spinach, creams are always a good option. In this opportunity, the Nutrition and Kitchen team teaches you how to make a homemade spinach cream with a touch of nutmeg and cheese, a true delight.
Spinach has excellent nutritional properties, it is high in carbohydrates while the fat content is quite low, it provides a lot of protein, fiber and is also rich in many vitamins and minerals. The fact is that they cannot be missing from your diet and with this recipe for spinach cream with cheese you can do it without problems.
Ingredients to make cream of spinach with cheese:
- 300 grams of fresh spinach
- 1 liter of whole milk
- 2 tablespoons of wheat flour
- 5 little cheeses
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 onion
- 1 pinch of salt and pepper
- 1 pinch of Nutmeg
How to make cream of spinach with cheese:
- We start by poaching the onion, previously chopped, in a pot with hot oil. Season with salt and when the onion is poached, but keeping its white color, add the flour and stir everything for a few minutes.
- Then it’s time to add the milk, we will do this little by little and without stopping stirring the fried onion. In this way we will prevent the flour from forming lumps in our spinach cream.
- When you finish pouring the milk, add the fresh spinach and keep cooking for about 10 minutes.
- To finish and give our recipe with spinach a soft and creamy touch, we add the cheeses in portions. Stir everything and blend with the help of a hand blender or in a blender.
- Return the cream to the pot, already smooth and homogeneous, and season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Enjoy a nice bowl of creamy spinach with hot cheese at dinner or serve it as a starter.
