This recipe, like the majority of those I have, was handed to me by my mother. It is quite easy to make and tastes delicious as a creamy lemon accoutrement to fish or chicken.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 8 mins |
| Total Time: | 18 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- ⅛ cup water
- 1 bunch fresh spinach, rinsed and stemmed
- ⅓ cup cream cheese, softened
- 1 pinch salt
- 4 teaspoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Bring the water to a boil in a skillet over medium heat. Add spinach all at once, and reduce heat slightly. Cover, and let cook for about 3 minutes, or until spinach is not quite tender.
- Stir in the cream cheese and lemon juice, and season with salt. Cook, stirring, until the cream cheese is melted and well blended. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 88 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 4 g |
| Cholesterol | 21 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 317 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I wish spinach didn’t shrink so much. I made this…put as much spinach in my pot as I could. I ended up adding some grated Parmesan cheese to it. I think it really needed that. It’s very good. If I had a cast iron skillet, I’d probably throw some bread crumbs on top and bake it for a crispy crust.
So good!
This tastes like a creamed spinach recipe that I make and is so much simpler. Loved it
Surprisingly good. I did start with only 1-tea of lemon juice, and will use 2 next time. My wife loved this however I thought it was good and easy to make but prefer the flavors of more traditional cream spinach. This very good and would also work with peas, beans, or any vegetable you may like with the cream.
Just the recipe I was looking for. I used frozen spinach and didn’t add water and it turned out great. Thanks!
I did not make any changes. Very easy to make and tastes great and quick to make. We used it as an side dish to a fish dinner.
Too much lemon, but otherwise good. Next time I will probably omit the lemon juice and add some garlic or garlic salt. 5-13-2016 update, made it again but tried it with kale and I thought it was great. I halfed the lemon juice and added some garlic powder and heavy cream.
Super yummy and easy! I made it with frozen spinach and it was delicious. Will definitely be making this again!
I used veggie cream cheese and added some garlic. It was delish!
fantastic. we loved all the lemon! really jazzed up the spinach.
We were making chicken breast and wanted to add a quick sauce to mix things up a bit. This was yummy, and I loved it. My husband thought it was just ok, nothing special. I would definitely make it again with less lemon juice.
This was wonderful! I did add garlic powder and a little Parmesan. The best part about it was that my 4 year old had seconds and it’s the first I have ever gotten her to eat spinach! We’ll be making it often!
I cut back to just a tsp of lemon and next time will cut back the amount of cream cheese probably to 1/4 cup. I think with both those changes and maybe adding some garlic it would be perfect!
Really good. Not your average vegetable side dish. I only used 1-2 tsp of lemon juice. Use 1 or 2 tsp and then taste before adding more.
Really good! Put it on top of some baked fish. Perfect!
I used frozen, shredded spinach (2 cups) instead of the fresh. I likely used a bit more cream cheese (roughly half a block), reduced the lemon juice to roughly a tsp., added garlic powder/onion powder/nutmeg/white pepper and a dash of milk for consistency reasons. Combine this with ‘Rice with Herbes de Provence’ (from AR) and you have a winning side.
Two of my children really enjoyed this after I added some nutmeg and sugar, but my husband, my other child, and myself could pass on this. I’m not typically a big fan of lemon without some sugar, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this isn’t quite my cup of tea (e.g. – I don’t like lemon chicken, or didn’t, until I noted a recipe which added a touch of sugar, not much, just enough to take the edge off….), so when this wasn’t to my taste at all, I added the sugar, and it was okay. ?Perhaps if I had grown up with this dish, it would be especially yummy to me? As it is, I’m glad two of my children enjoy it, so I might make it occasionally (since we have access to a LOT of spinach), but I’ll probably usually use other recipes for our spinach.
My family did not like this at all. We felt that it was just plain and blah.
Was super quick and easy!! My husband really enjoyed it and he is not easy to please.
Reviews were mixed in the family. Way too much lemon, 1 tsp should be plenty. Definitely needed more salt but left that up to everyone else to add to their preference. 1 BUNCH is not a good quantity description and you really need more than that as fresh spinach cooks down tremendously. It would be better to make the sauce on the side and allow everyone to add how much they want on to their individual portions. WIth those changes it would work better. It still lacked flavor for the majority of us. I like the concept but it needs tweaking. Will not make again as the recipe is.
1 bunch of spinach shrinks down to nothing. Therefore, it was too much cream cheese and way too much lemon juice. I will try several bunches of spinach next time for that quantity of cream cheese & lemon juice.