Spinach "Cupcake" parfait - Popeye sure would love that one... |
In that book there is a Broccoli parfait that is really delicious but I changed it the broccoli to spinach that i prefer over broccoli anyway (alongside with some other minor modifications) and, long story short, here I would like to present you this dish that I usually serve as a veggie side dish.
Ingredients:
- 1 good kg of spinach (if you use raw spinach buy 1.5 kg fresh spinach)
- 1 carrot diced in big pieces
- 5 eggs
- 250 ml of cream (cream is one of the things that are very hard to get here, so I skip this one most of the time but if you have some, add it, it's really worth it, makes everything just so much better)
- 4 table spoons of grated Swiss cheese (I recommend Emmental or Gruyere)
- Nutmeg
- pepper and salt for seasoning
- butter for greasing.
If you got fresh spinach, just as me, first you got to clean the spinach well as spinach grows on sandy soil and you don't want to have the sandy sensations added to your pallet. Soak the spinach a good 10 - 20 minutes in water. After that you cut of the stem of the spinach and steam it with a little water for a very short time to keep most of the good stuff (Vitamines A and B, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium etc...) inside the plant. Then you take it out and put it in a blender, alongside with all the other ingredients. Now cook the carrot until soft but not too soft and also put it in the blender.
Blend everything together until you got a consistent light green color spinach cream. This is the time that you start to heat the oven at 180 C. In the meantime you grease up some little cupcake forms in which we will make our little spinach cupcakes. Then you pour the spinach cream in the greased forms. This ones, we will put on a bigger ove tray in which we will fill water, so that the cupcake forms will be baking in this water bath. Now we put the waterbath with the forms in the oven and bake the spinach pies for about 60 - 70 minutes. After that, just shake the pies out of the cupcake forms and enjoy the spinach meal :).
You should make this for me if you ever come to Downunder... we can buy just the spinach leaves so no need to wash all the sand & soil :-) any special Easter treat today? A lil bird told me Mama G had prepared a special meat loaf with eggs inside ;-)
ReplyDeleteYes, "when" I come downunder I make that one, not a problem. Mama G was making a "false" rabbit, typical Easter dish for your lil "bird" :). Yes I made something special two days ago that we will eat again today and you had that one already, just I modified the recipe a bit. You can find it soon, here hehe...
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