Creamed Spinach

June 28, 2013

|In Z3-Appetizers & Snacks, Z3-Sides, Z3-Vegetarian

Plan Z Phase: This is a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe. Creamed spinach makes a wonderful, old-school side dish or you can use it as a dip. Serve with Melba rounds and just reuse your rounds so you don’t eat more than 3 or 4.

Ingredients:

10 oz box of frozen chopped spinach, thawed
8 oz of mascarpone or cream cheese (full fat)
2 Tbl of butter
6 pieces of bacon, fried crispy and diced
1 cup of parmesan cheese, divided
½ cup of swiss cheese, grated
light grating of sea salt
dusting of cayenne (optional)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Take out the spinach. Lay it on paper towels and begin squishing out the water. It might take a few towels to get it all soaked up. You want most of the water out of it. Toss the towels.

Put the spinach in a 9″ x 9″ oven-proof pan.

Add the mascarpone, butter, bacon, Parmesan, Swiss cheese and seasonings. I like the cayenne to give it a bit of zip.

Microwave on high for 1 – 2 minutes; just to loosen up the cheeses. Stir them all together. Then bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Enjoy!

Cheers,