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Spinach Mornay

This gratin is made with a layer of pre-cooked spinach, then sliced hard-boiled eggs and a Mornay sauce (an enriched bechamel with cheese).

9,1523.2/5 for 6 ratings

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Last modified on: February 27^th 2019

For 4 people, you will need:

1 30 g butter
2 500 g cooked spinach
3 4 hard-boiled eggs
4 200 g Bechamel sauce
5 100 g grated cheese
6 50 g grated cheese (optional)
Total weight: 1,080 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
15 min.	25 min.	40 min.

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C)

Butter a gratin dish.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Spread 500 g cooked spinach in the bottom.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Slice 4 hard-boiled eggs and arrange on top of the spinach.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Mix 200 g Bechamel sauce and 100 g grated cheese, then pour over the eggs.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

For a browner top, you can add a little more more grated cheese.

Stage 6 - 25 min.

Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes until nicely browned on top.

Remarks

This recipe is very approximate, so do feel free to adapt the quantities to whatever you have to hand.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,468 Kcal or 6,146 Kj	67 gr	56 gr	111 gr
73 %	26 %	5 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
136 Kcal or 569 Kj	6 gr	5 gr	10 gr
7 %	2 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
367 Kcal or 1,537 Kj	17 gr	14 gr	28 gr
18 %	6 %	1 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 4.26 €
Per person : 1.07 €

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Cooked spinach: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Baked eggs with chicken and spinach, Spinach fritters, Spinach on toast with bechamel, Eggs "en cocotte" with spinach, Gratin slices with spinach, ... All
	Bechamel sauce: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gratin slices with spinach, Harvest Gratin, Spinach Croque-monsieur , Endives , Stuffed artichokes au gratin, ... All
	Grated cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Vegetable clafoutis, Ham "friand" pie, Hachis parmentier: meat with mashed potato and cheese, Mushroom Pancakes au Gratin, Endive gratin with cancoillotte, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramelized pear custard tart, Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée), Chocolate cake, Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée), Fish "à la Bordelaise", ... All

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