20+ Yummy Spinach Recipes
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These scrumptious spinach recipes will help you to turn plenty of spinach into a satisfying family meal that’s nourishing and absolutely delicious!
Ready to get the most of this super healthy leafy green?
What dishes can be made from spinach? Well, let’s forget boring meals with slimy, overcooked spinach because I’ve gathered here terrific ideas to make the most of these popular vegetable.
Not only is this terrific superfood packed with minerals, vitamins and an incredible amount of health benefits, but it’s also versatile, convenient and tastes delicious.
Do you wonder what to do with spinach? A bag of fresh or frozen spinach can go a long way, my friends!
You can toss it into fabulous pasta recipes, nourishing soups, fancy salads, vibrant smoothies, creamy dips, quiches.
You can also turn it into a yummy pizza topping, a clever way to eat more leafy greens without having to make a salad.
Here are some of my favorite spinach dishes, easy to make for the whole family, nutritious and loaded with flavor. These are the kind of recipes that you’ll make again and again.
Enjoy!
Spinach Recipes
Best Spinach Pasta
This terrific pasta with spinach sauce is one of my popular recipes. It's super easy to whip up, ready in less than 15 minutes and makes a weeknight meal the whole family will love. I'm sure this is one of the spinach recipes to add to your weekly rotation!
Avocado Spinach Salad
This wonderful spinach avocado salad with fresh mozzarella makes a light and fresh side dish perfect all year round. It’s a great way to get your greens, easy to customize with your favorite add-ins, and absolutely perfect to serve for weeknights or dinner party.
Spinach Spaghetti with garlic crumbs
Quick, easy and delicious, this spinach spaghetti with toasted garlic breadcrumbs, lemon and parmesan makes a scrumptious midweek meal ready in 15 minutes.
Spinach Potato Soup
This simple soup recipe uses minimal ingredients, but the flavor and texture are incredible, creamy without weighing you down, and absolutely delicious with soft potatoes and super healthy spinach. Enjoy with crusty bread, croutons or focaccia, and you'll be in soup heaven!
Creamy Spinach Tomato Pasta
In this recipe the tomato sauce is combined with fresh spinach and a delicioous creamy sauce to make a pasta dish that is a breeze to make and tastes luxurious. It’s also economical and ready in less than 15 minutes, one of those pasta dishes perfect for when you want comfort food, but can’t be bothered to spend time in the kitchen.
Spinach Pesto
This bright green spinach pesto is bursting with fresh spinach and basil flavor balanced by pine nuts, garlic, parmesan and fruity olive oil. It’s a clever way to incorporate a ton of greens into a quick pasta dish, and it tastes amazing.
Spinach Feta Pasta
This pasta with spinach and feta is incredibly easy to make, crazy delicious, and ready in 15 minutes with just 6 ingrefients!
Spinach pizza, seriously good!
This stellar spinach pizza is crispy on the edges and loaded with juicy garlicky spinach, creamy mozzarella and tangy feta cheese. It’s fresh, full of flavor, and absolutely delicious! The recipes uses my easy no-knead dough recipe, make it once, and you won't order takeaway pizza again!
Creamy vegan spinach soup
This creamy luscious soup uses loads of frozen spinach and one large potato. It's light, healthy, especially with the addition of freshly squeezed lemon juice. It takes just 20 minutes to make, requires basic ingredients easy to have on hand, and there’s barely any clean up!
Classic French Spinach Quiche
This spinach quiche will make your brunch special. The combination of heavy cream, Gruyère, and a good bit of spinach makes it rich and flavorful. It's just delicious, and freezable too!
Curried Spinach Soup
Thick and comforting curried spinach soup that's loaded with Thai flavors! Coconut milk makes this soup insanely rich and creamy. Serve it with my warm focaccia or crispy panini rolls, and you can call it dinner!
Easy Spinach Frittata
This baked gluten-free spinach frittata is a terrific way to make breakfast or a make ahead meal you can keep for days. It’s a breeze to whip up, it uses only 3 basic ingredients and no stove required! It's one of my fav lazy spinach recipes, a clever shortcut to make a filling, fresh meal that requires minimal ingredients and little effort.
LEMON RICOTTA PASTA WITH SPINACH
This is one of the most popular quick pasta recipes on the blog, it uses a mixture of fresh ricotta, parmesan, and spinach, and makes a fantastic meal ready in less than 15 minutes. Trust me, everyone will be back for seconds and thirds.
Easy Spinach Gratin.
This dish is incredibly creamy, hearty, has a touch of spice and is loaded with gruyere and parmesan cheese. It’s absolutely delicious and makes for the perfect side dish to any holiday. It’s easy as can be, is great to prep ahead of time and also reheats beautifully. What's not to love?
Pasta with Tomatoes and Spinach
When you’ve got some fresh tomatoes and spinach in the fridge, this delicious recipe will be right up your alley and perfect for busy weeknight dinners. It's one of our favorite meatless meals, full of fresh flavor and textures, and loaded with yummy and healthy baby spinach leaves. What a fantastic way to get your veggies!
Mango Kiwi Smoothie with spinach
Refreshing and full of vitamins, this smoothie packs mango, kiwi, spinach and banana and is ready in less than 5 minutes. It tastes so sweet and delightfully creamy.
Spinach Pesto Pasta
Looking for a super quick meal that’s packed with leafy greens? This delicious spinach pesto pasta is sure to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters and it’s ready in 15 minutes.
Fresh Creamed Spinach
In this fantastic creamed spinach recipe the creaminess comes from cream cheese rather than heavy cream. Fresh baby spinach cooks down in minutes, no chopping required, so this recipe is so quick and perfect for the whole family.
Spinach Mushroom Pasta
Mushrooms and spinach make a wonderful combination for this comforting pasta. It's quick to make, full of flavor, and just perfect for your carb cravings.
Spinach Arugula Salad
In this yummy spinach arugula salad the vibrant greens are topped with crispy croutons, savory parmesan cheese and tossed with a tangy lemon yogurt dressing. It’s the perfect healthy salad that combines flavors and textures, totally customizable, and fancy enough for a dinner party.
Mushroom Spinach Pasta with Shallots
This recipe makes bowls of deliciousness that are perfect to serve as a weeknight meatless pasta dish. A flavor-packed pasta recipe featuring wide pappardelle noodles in a savory olive oil, garlic and white wine sauce full of chunky mushrooms, fresh spinach and shallots. I love this terrific combination!
Garlic Sautéed Spinach
Here’s a super quick Sautéed Spinach that will pair beautifully with just about anything. It cooks in a handful of minutes, and is great to add loads of greens into a meal without even realising it. And the garlic flavour is absolutely fabulous!
Artichoke Spinach Dip
Spinach Artichoke Dip is always a huge hit! Warm, soft and creamy, with a little extra flavour than most, your crackers won’t break when you scoop this up! This easy spinach recipe is beautiful served warm or at room temperature.
Spinach loquat Smoothie
This smoothie is another wonderful recipe that helps to add plenty of nourishing spinach to your diet. It tastes lovely, fresh and makes you feel good.
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20+ Yummy Spinach Recipes
Ingredients
Pizza dough
- 1 easy pizza dough (or your fav dough)
Spinach topping
- 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1-2 garlic cloves, minced or grated
- 10oz (280 grams) fresh baby spinach, washed and drained
- ¼ teaspoon fine salt
- ⅛ teaspoon black pepper, plus more to serve
- 1 (4oz/125 grams) whole-milk mozzarella in water(or from ½ to ⅓ cup shredded firm mozzarella)
- 2-3oz (70 grams) feta cheese (approx ⅓ cup if you buy crumbled feta)
- ½ Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- ¼ Teaspoon dried chili flakes
Instructions
Pizza dough
- Follow the easy no-knead pizza recipe through step 5, including shaping the pizza and preheating the oven.
Spinach topping
- Cook the spinach: heat the oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic and cook for 20 seconds until light golden. Add spinach, a handful at a time, and sauté until it has wilted. The amount of greens looks huge, but it wilt in less than 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, and set aside.
- Prepare the cheese: crumble the block of feta using your fingers and, if you use fresh mozzarella ball in water, cut it into ½ inch thick pieces. If it releases water, you may want to dab the mozzarella with the paper towel to remove excess moisture.
- Shape the dough: when the dough is ready follow step 5, place the dough on a parchment paper sheet and starting from the center, gently press it out with your fingers until you get approx a 9×13 inch pizza. Then gently place the dough onto a pizza peel or onto the back of a rimmed baking sheet.
- Add the topping: scatter mozzarella, feta and spinach evenly on the top of the pizza. Sprinkle some fine salt on top and little drizzle of extra virgin olive oil (optional).
- Bake the pizza: make sure the oven is hot and use the pizza peel to carefully transfer the pizza onto the preheated pizza stone. Bake the pizza until the cheese and crust are nicely browned, approx 15 minutes. Each oven is different, keep an eye on it (e.g. in a forced fan oven it will take about 8-10 minutes).
- Serve: allow the pizza to cool for a minute or two before serving and drizzle with good-quality extra virgin olive oil, also garlic oil would be nice. Slice and serve immediately.
Notes
The cups of flour are leveled, which means you have to fill the measuring cup all the way to the top letting the flour flow over a little. Then, use the back of a knife to level the top off. However, a digital scale is an excellent kitchen tool and gives a more correct weight. Pizza with spinach leftovers: cover leftover pizza tightly and store in the refrigerator up to 1 day or freeze up to 3 months. Thaw and reheat in the oven the frozen pizza leftovers until nice and crispy.
I’m always looking for simple, new ideas…I love how your page is set up, easy instructions & visually encouraging. House favorite is cheese, and these ideas will make everyone happy. I LOVED your olive pizza. Blessings to you.
Thanks for your lovely feedback, Donna!
I’m very pleased to hear you love my recipes and my olive pizza too. : )
Take care x