Mediterranean

Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens

Name: Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens
Total time: 9 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 10 oz fresh baby spinach; 2 tbsp olive oil; 3 garlic cloves; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Yasmin @beirut_bites

Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens is Mediterranean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

9 min Easy Heart healthy Low sodium Low carb Vegetarian Vegan Halal Pescatarian Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

10 oz fresh baby spinach
2 tbsp olive oil
3 garlic cloves
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat and add the minced garlic and red pepper flakes, cooking until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Add the spinach in batches, tossing until each addition wilts before adding more.
Remove from the heat and toss with the lemon juice.
Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Mediterranean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Baked Falafel Plate
  
  45 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 80 kcal
Protein: 2 g
Carbs: 2 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 160 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Lemon Garlic Sauteed Greens takes about 9 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.