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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).

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Last modified on: February 27^th 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Spinach Gratin Casserole Egg Mornay sauce Bechamel sauce

For 4 people, you will need:

0 30 g butter
1 500 g cooked spinach
2 4 hard-boiled eggs
3 200 g Bechamel sauce
4 100 g grated cheese
5 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.

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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.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,308 Kcal or 5,476 Kj	67 gr	56 gr	111 gr
65 %	26 %	5 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
121 Kcal or 507 Kj	6 gr	5 gr	10 gr
6 %	2 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
327 Kcal or 1,369 Kj	17 gr	14 gr	28 gr
16 %	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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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Cooked spinach: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crispy spinach rolls, Chicken with spinach in a cream sauce , Parcels of fish fillet in spinach, Fish terrine with spinach and tomatoes, Salmon and Spinach Gratin, ... All
	Bechamel sauce: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach on toast with bechamel, Thin spinach and potato tart, Endives , Croque-monsieur potatoes, Potato and broccoli gratin, ... All
	Grated cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Enchiladas, Potato and broccoli gratin, Moussaka, Chilli chicken and spinach gratin, Cheese tart, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little caramelized peach tarts, Gâteau Nantais, Oaty walnut cake , Breton sablé biscuit dough, Langoustine and leek tarts, ... All

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