Good ingredients to pair with spinach
Eggs and cheese make spinach work for breakfast or a light supper, while chicken and chickpeas turn it into a fuller meal. Pasta, potatoes and a creamy or tomato sauce are easy ways to give wilted leaves somewhere to go.
Easy spinach meal ideas
- spinach omelette — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- creamy spinach pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- chicken spinach skillet — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- chickpea spinach curry — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
How to get the best from spinach
Add spinach near the end and let it wilt in the residual heat of the dish. If using frozen spinach, squeeze out excess water first so it does not thin a sauce or make a filling soggy.
Turn a few ingredients into a coherent dinner
Choose a base, a flavour direction and one or two supporting ingredients. For example, rice or potatoes can make the meal filling, while lemon and garlic, tomato and herbs, soy and chilli, or curry spices can give the ingredients a clear direction.
Make the idea fit your evening
The same ingredient can produce a very different answer depending on whether you need dinner in 20 minutes, want one pan, are feeding four people or need to use another ingredient before it goes to waste. Add those constraints before choosing the final recipe.
Use SIZZIO to make it specific
Tell SIZZIO what you have, how many people you are feeding and what kind of meal you want. You can then save the recipe and move into the cooking flow instead of starting another search when it is time to cook.