Published 12:34 IST, December 19th 2019
Healthy winter recipe: Try these healthy spinach dishes to keep you warm
Spinach is specially eaten in winters as along with being a nutritious green vegetable, it's also great for a healthy winter recipe. Read on for spinach recipes
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Everyone is aware of health benefits of green vegetables like spinach. One cup of green veggie is kwn to be full of vitamins A, protein, calcium, iron, potassium, Vitamin B9, and magnesium. Along with nutritious benefit of vegetable, it is still a fact that majority of people don't like taste of spinach, especially children. So, to include Popeye's favourite dish in your daily diet here is a meal plan that may help to make your spinach dish into something savoury and delicious.
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Ginger Spinach Smoothie for breakfast
Ginger and spinach are highlights of this smoothie as ginger provides anti-inflammatory properties which is very beneficial to your gut. Consuming ginger daily may help in muscle soreness that you may experience after a gym workout. For this smoothie, d a natural sweetener of your choice in this dish, along with nutrient-rich seeds like hemp seeds and chia seeds. Blend m with spinach, tangerines, and bananas. A perfect refreshing tropical smoothie is rey to be served.
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Spinach Souffle for snacks
Ingredients needed are 1 egg, ½ cup of grated Gruyere cheese, 4 tablespoons of salted butter, garlic cloves, 1 ½ cup of milk, 2 Tbsp of all-purpose flour, 1 bunch of spinach (washed and chopped), brecrumbs, salt, pepper, chopped orega leaves. Start with preparing a white sauce in a saucepan using above ingredients, once me, d chopped spinach along with salt pepper seasonings. Use a ramekin to bake your souffle, but first coat ramekins with bre crumbs. w to your saucepan d grated cheese, at this st d egg as well. w pour mix into ramekins and set it out for baking. oven baking settings would be at 200°C for about 15-20 minutes.
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Sarson da Saag for lunch or dinner
Winter is incomplete without Punjab's favourite Sarson ka saag and Makki di roti. Those who are unaware of this dish, might t kw that sarso (mustard) ka saag consists of spinach along with mustard saag and bathua saag (It is called bathua in Hindi and Chepodium album as scientific name for it). Sarson da Saag is usually paired with Makki di Roti, which is me with cornflour. For this dish, prepare greens by washing and cutting m. Let m stew in a pressure cooker for about 2 whistles in a low flame. Take boiled leaves out and let m cool. Once cooled grind m using a food processor but remember to grind roughly. It should t be me into a chutney. In a pan, take some oil, d mustard seeds, dry red chilly, and cumin seeds for tka. Once tempered d your sliced onions, garlic cloves in it. Once y get cooked d your prepared greens in pan and saute for 5-6 minutes. Garnish it with 2 tbsp of ghee.
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11:25 IST, December 19th 2019