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Creamed Spinach with Spiced Bread Crumbs

  • Serves

    serves 6-8

Creamed Spinach with Spiced Bread Crumbs
HELEN ROSNER

This luxurious stove-top creamed spinach is enriched with sour cream and topped with crunchy spiced bread crumbs. This recipe first appeared in our November 2012 issue along with Bernard L. Herman's story A Bountiful Shore.

Ingredients

  • 2 lb. fresh spinach
  • 8 tbsp. unsalted butter
  • 12 cup fresh bread crumbs
  • 14 tsp. paprika
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 large shallot, minced
  • 5 tbsp. flour
  • 1 12 cups milk
  • 13 cup sour cream
  • 14 cup grated Parmesan
  • 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
  • 14 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

Step 1

Bring a 4-qt. saucepan of water to a boil; add spinach, and cook until wilted, about 2 minutes. Drain, and squeeze dry with a kitchen towel; set aside. Heat 3 tbsp. butter in a 12" skillet over medium-high heat. Add bread crumbs, paprika, and salt and pepper; cook, stirring, until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Set aside.

Step 2

Add remaining butter to skillet; add garlic and shallot; cook, stirring, until soft, about 3 minutes. Add flour; cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add milk; boil. Add spinach, sour cream, Parmesan, juice, nutmeg, and salt and pepper; cook, stirring, until thickened, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a serving dish; sprinkle with bread crumbs.

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