List of recipes using Fresh spinach: 12 recipes

Baby spinach salad

It might not be obvious, but spinach can be eaten raw, as in this salad, where the leaves are shredded and mixed with croutons, lardons (bacon bits) and hard-boiled eggs.

Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach

This is a delicious recipe for an end-of-winter soup. It combines fresh spinach with diced potato and smoked sausage.

Rice and fresh spinach salad

Spinach is usually eaten cooked. Though seen less often, it can also be eaten raw, like in this salad where it is combined with rice, crunchy radishes and tinned tuna.

Koulibiak in pie dish

Koulibiak is a traditional russian recipe from, usually served in a flat puff pastry fish shape. Here is an easier version, in a pie dish.

Chilli chicken and spinach gratin

A classic combination of chicken and spinach is pepped up with chilli spices and balanced with a velvety bechamel sauce, topped with cheese and browned in the oven.

Creamy spinach à la Lombarde

For this recipe, spinach and potatoes are cooked separately, then assembled in a mascarpone-tomato sauce.

Fresh spinach with cream

Fresh spinach, simply wilted, reheated in a sauce of thickened cream with shallot, and served with quarters of hard-boiled egg.

Mixed vegetable curry

A mix of vegetables (pumpkin, leek, chickpeas...) cooked in coconut milk and curry spices. Serve this dish with rice, preferably basmati, for an authentic touch.

No-pastry spinach and potato quiche

For this pastry-less quiche, baked in an ovenproof pan, a mixture of roasted potatoes and spinach, bound together with a classic quiche maker.

Tex-Mex chicken burger

For this Tex-Mex inspired burger the usual beef pattie has been abandoned in favour of fried chicken with chilli, put together with sliced avocado and raw baby spinach.

Pistachio and spinach pesto

You are no doubt familiar with classic pesto, made with basil and pine nuts. Here's a winter version with spinach and pistachios that's just as delicious.

How to prepare spinach

For most people (and me most of all), spinach brings back bad memories of canteens... But, well prepared, it's a fine and delicate vegetable which goes remarkably well with scrambled eggs, fish, and many another things. Here are two ways of preparing it.