Monday, April 12, 2010

Creamed Spinach #52

One of my favorite dishes at restaurants is creamed spinach.  Calhouns in Knoxville has the best!  This is one of the dishes I really want to learn to make.  This recipe came from allrecipes.com.

The case:

Ingredients
3 (10 ounce) bags clean fresh spinach, roughly chopped
1 1/4 cups heavy cream
1/4 cup butter
2 tablespoons minced garlic
3 tablespoons minced white onion
6 slices shredded provolone cheese
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper to taste

Directions
1.  Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add spinach and cook until wilted, stirring constantly. 2.  Remove from the skillet and drain in a colander. Try to squeeze out as much liquid as possible.
3.  Melt the butter in the skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and onions; cook and stir until tender, about 5 minutes.
4.  Add the spinach and stir in the heavy cream.
5.  Sprinkle in the provolone cheese and stir to melt and coat the spinach. Once the provolone has melted, stir in the Parmesan cheese and continue to cook and stir until thickened. Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.
The ruling:
This was FABULOUS, FABULOUS, FABULOUS!!!!  I will be making this regularly now!  Michael and I ate every bite of it!   I didn't use the onion, but instead added onion powder.  I also used fat free half and half instead of heavy cream.  It was perfect.  I can't imagine finding a recipe that is any better.

No comments:

Post a Comment