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Plan Z Phase: This is a Z2 (ZReduction) recipe. Since spinach is an unlimited, you can have as much as you like. It doesn’t count towards your veggie portion which means you can have this and another veggie, too. YUM!

Servings: Serves 2-4. Can be easily doubled or tripled.

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 pounds of fresh baby spinach
• 3-6 cloves of garlic, minced (if you don’t like a strong garlic flavor, use 3 cloves; if you like a stronger garlic flavor use 6 cloves)
• 1-1/2 Tbl juice squeezed from a lemon
• olive oil spray
• 2 tsp sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 3/4 tsp lemon zest (optional)
• you’ll also need a large pot with a lid (a Dutch oven works really well for this)

Instructions:

Wash your spinach well and shake out the leaves so it’s relatively dry. You can even whirl it in a salad spinner.

Spray a large pot or Dutch oven with olive oil spray. You’re going to slightly saute your garlic in it so use enough spray to make sure the garlic doesn’t stick. Cook your garlic on medium/low heat for a minute or two. You want it to be nice and fragrant, but not brown. When it starts to turn brown around the edges add your spinach, salt, pepper, lemon and lemon zest. Mix everything together. Then cover the pot and let the spinach wilt. This doesn’t take long. Keep an eye on it, the longer it cooks, the more it shrinks down.

Serve immediately with lemon wedges.

Enjoy!

Cheers,