Description
A quick and healthy side dish of stir-fried spinach flavored with garlic and parmesan.
Ingredients
Scale
- 16 oz baby spinach leaves
- 2 T olive oil
- 6 whole garlic cloves
- 3 T freshly grated parmesan cheese (or more)
- fresh ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Use a large heavy frying pan or wok for this recipe.
- Wash spinach if needed and spin dry or blot with paper towels.
- Heat pan or wok for about one minute over medium high heat, until it feels hot if you hold your hand over it.
- Add olive oil and heat until oil shimmers, then add garlic cloves and stir-fry for 30 seconds to one minute, or until you can smell garlic. (Don’t cook it so long that the garlic starts to brown or it will taste bitter.)
- Remove garlic and discard.
- Add spinach to hot seasoned oil and immediately start to stir, lifting spinach from the bottom of the hot pan as it wilts and letting the uncooked spinach move to the bottom. Cook only until all spinach is hot and wilted, about 2 minutes.
- Remove spinach to serving plate.
- Sprinkle with parmesan cheese and season with fresh-ground pepper.
- Serve the Stir-Fried Spinach hot and enjoy!
Notes
- For convenience, pre-washed spinach can be used to skip the washing step.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Stir-Fry
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 100
- Sugar: 1g
- Sodium: 240mg
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 3g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 5mg