All the Spinach is one of the most nutritious vegetables out there, they have a large amount of vitamin A, vitamin E and iodine. Also cheap, you can get them both frozen and fresh, and they can be consumed raw or cooked. So they only have advantages.
To get your children to eat spinach you only have to resort to the character of Popeye, more than one generation has grown up thanks to this cartoon. But if that is not enough, we are going to give you some very simple recipes and tricks so you can camouflage the spinach and hardly notice, or precisely the opposite, that enhance its beautiful green.
Spinach recipes to bake
In the two recipes with spinach that we give you below, they are not suitable for vegans or vegetarians, but you can adapt them. For them you will need an oven, or a microwave with the grill function. They are so simple that your children can help you prepare them and thus encourage them to eat them.
- Spinach roll, with cream cheese and York ham. First you have to beat 4 eggs, add salt and pepper, and mix the spinach that we have cooked and drained. In a rectangular container, we place parchment paper and add the mixture. We leave it in the oven for 10 minutes at 200 ° C. When we remove it, we turn it over in a damp cloth and roll it up. So we let it cool. When it is cold, it is unrolled and we add cream cheese and the slices of ham. We roll it up again with a cling film, and leave it in the fridge for at least 2 hours. To present it you have to cut it into discs and voila!
- Eggplant stuffed with spinach. The first thing is to empty the aubergines being careful not to break the skin. We cook this pulp. When cooked, in a skillet Sauté onion, garlic and add the aubergine pulp. In this same pasta we add the natural spinach. We let everything be done and add 2 beaten eggs with a little cornstarch, salt and pepper. Over low heat the ingredients will bind. With this mixture we fill the aubergines, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake them for 10 o15 at 220º with grill.
Spinach Recipes for Those Who Can't Cook
If you don't want to waste a lot of time in the kitchen, but you want your children to eat rich and healthy, we give you these recipes. They can prepare them themselves, and they can take it for a snack or lunch at school.
- Ham, Cheddar and Spinach Wraps. The important thing about this recipe is the order in which the ingredients are placed. First spread the cream cheese down the center of the corn or wheat pancake. Then place: ham slice, cheddar slice, clean spinach leaves, sliced tomatoes. Fold the left and right edges to the center first. Then roll the rest from the bottom up. And ready!
- Spinach Salad With Walnuts. We clean the spinach leaves and put them in a bowl. We add clean and chopped tomato, chopped cured cheese and walnuts. To prepare the vinaigrette we make it with a tablespoon less of honey than mustard. We add a little oil and mix it well. Some people also add very fine raw mushrooms to this salad.
Funny spinach
We now propose two very simple, rich and nutritious recipes with spinach, as well as showy.
- Spinach and quinoa burgers. We mix 3 cups of already cooked quinoa with different chopped raw vegetables, among which we put the spinach (1 cup). We beat it with 2 eggs and breadcrumbs, to give it consistency. Now it only remains to form the hamburgers and put them in the pan or in the oven as you do with the meat ones.
- Spinach muffins. This recipe consists only of mixing spinach with egg and putting them in the muffin molds. Remember to put a little oil in the mold. And now, baked at 200 ° until the egg is done! You can also put cheese on it and make them with other vegetables, like cooked zucchini or sweet potatoes, for example.
As we have insisted, sometimes for boys and girls eat It's enough present the dishes in a colorful and fun way usual. Remember, also to do it in small portions, to suit you.