Spinach is used in hundreds of ways in a kitchen. -Simply warmed and served with olives, in a spinach and feta pie, in many kinds of salads, steamed as a side dish. etc etc .
Nutritious spinach recipes can be found at Eating Well, Healthy Food, All Recipes, My Cooking, Smitten Kitchen, Food Network, 101 Cooking and Southern Food.
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Taste it! When it is tender enough for your liking, you can stop cooking it.
The best spinach recipes can be found at the Food Network or Allrecipes websites. You might even find ideas for spinach on You Tube as they have lots of cooking videos listed.
The most common substitute for taro leaves is spinach leaves.
In the range of 50-60 calories. Spinach is excellent for a low calorie side dish. Cooking it will cause spinach to lose many of it's nutrients though.
Spinach can be used in salads or eaten plainly.
Spinach leaves are used as a food.They can be cooked or served raw in a salad.
No, but equally delicious to eat. Spinach requires almost no cooking, literally 30 seconds in boiling water will heat it and wilt it beautifully. Kale is 'stiffer' and mor like cabbage and requires a little more cooking.
The website livestrong.com has quite a few healthy methods of preparing spinach, as well as some interesting recipes which you could try out. Check it our here: http://www.livestrong.com/article/541347-healthy-ways-to-cook-baby-spinach/
A basic list (there are several varieties of each) is: Lettuce, Kale, Cabbage, Spinach, Chard, Cress. There are also many leaves used as herbs for flavouring in cooking.
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