German

Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach)

Name: Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 2 lb frozen spinach; 1/2 onion, finely chopped; 3 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp all-purpose flour; 1 cup milk; 1 pinch ground nutmeg; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jonas @jonas_koeln

Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach) is German 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.

25 min Easy Heart healthy High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb frozen spinach
1/2 onion, finely chopped
3 tbsp butter
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
1 pinch ground nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Thaw the frozen spinach and squeeze out as much water as you can, then chop it roughly.
Melt half the butter in a saucepan and cook the onion over medium heat until softened, about 4 minutes.
Add the remaining butter and, once melted, whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute.
Gradually whisk in the milk and simmer, stirring, until thickened, about 4 minutes.
Stir in the spinach and nutmeg and warm through for 3 minutes, then season with the salt and pepper; the one vegetable in a cream binding that goes beside Kartoffelpueree and a fried egg, not the mixed pan of a Gemuesepfanne.

Watch how to cook Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach)

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

Serve it with

A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham)
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Apfelmus (German Applesauce)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Gemuesepfanne (Simple Vegetable Pan)
Gluten	Yes	Erbsen und Moehren (Peas and Carrots)
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: 190 kcal
Protein: 9 g
Carbs: 16 g
Fat: 10 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 600 mg
Saturated fat: 7 g

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

When to cook it

Rahmspinat (Creamed Spinach) takes about 25 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.