Cheesy Creamed Spinach Casserole

I have used Sue’s Recipe for years, but my adjustments for my family. I mix the drained spinach, sour cream, and onion soup mix the same. I add a small can of drained sliced water chestnuts and some canned artichokes. I use the small artichokes because they are not as fibrous as larger ones. Chop the water chestnuts and artichokes. add to the spinach mixture. when cooked this give the casserole a slight crutch. For the cheese topping. I use mozzarella and parmesan cheeses with a 2-3 tablespoons of bread crumbs. This gives the casserole a slight crust to the top This is always a hit for my family dinners! I hope for yours as well.

Very nice as is, but I added pasta and cut up (cooked) chicken and turned this into an easy main dish!

Love, love, love this dish!!! Made it for Christmas for my family and they polished it off!!!

Love, love, love this dish!!! Made it for Christmas for my family and they polished it off!!!

I made my quickly on stove. A bag frozen spinach, diced up onions, big scoop sour cream, big scoop of butter, package onion soup mix and folded in shredded cheese (mozzarella on hand). The soup mix gives it awesome flavor

Loved it and I will be making this often. I used chopped onion instead of the onion soup mix. I also mixed sharp cheddar cheese into the mix and added some for topping.

This is the absolute most horrible tasting recipe I have EVER tried! The only thing I did different was using fresh spinach chopped up rather than frozen……..the rest was “as written” on the recipe. Horrible sour taste and not creamy at all……more like curdled. And no…the sour cream was not spoiled….it was fresh. First time ever for Allrecipes I couldn’t give it a rave review.

I have made this recipe before, but I used 3–10 oz pkgs of ‘steam in the bag’ cooked and drained spinach instead of just 2. Also have chopped up some water chestnuts and added them to it.

Added salt, and yes I will again

After reading a few other reviews, I decided to mess with the recipe a little. I used low-fat sour cream, just because the calorie count with regular was flat-out scary. I also added three very small eggs and a cup or more of panko. I was concerned about having enough volume and also about the onion soup flavor being too strong, so the panko and eggs were meant to bulk it up and smooth out the flavor. This all seems to have worked well. I didn’t love it, but my son ate three servings and took the leftovers home with him. Not bad for a spinach dish. 🙂 Next time, I will cut the sour cream in half and substitute with either ricotta or cottage cheese. I’ll also use seasoned bread crumbs and maybe only half a package of onion soup mix. I think this recipe would be good with a variety of vegetables. It has enough flavor to stand up to collard greens or even mustard greens, but you could make it light enough to make with broccoli, zucchini, or even asparagus. Maybe a mix of vegetables would be good?

After reading a few other reviews, I decided to mess with the recipe a little. I used low-fat sour cream, just because the calorie count with regular was flat-out scary. I also added three very small eggs and a cup or more of panko. I was concerned about having enough volume and also about the onion soup flavor being too strong, so the panko and eggs were meant to bulk it up and smooth out the flavor. This all seems to have worked well. I didn’t love it, but my son ate three servings and took the leftovers home with him. Not bad for a spinach dish. 🙂 Next time, I will cut the sour cream in half and substitute with either ricotta or cottage cheese. I’ll also use seasoned bread crumbs and maybe only half a package of onion soup mix. I think this recipe would be good with a variety of vegetables. It has enough flavor to stand up to collard greens or even mustard greens, but you could make it light enough to make with broccoli, zucchini, or even asparagus. Maybe a mix of vegetables would be good?

I used fresh spinach that I wilted some in the microwave. I used all ingredients, although the amt varied as I was using up leftovers. I also make my own onion soup mix. My husband and I loved this, the kids hated it.

My 32 year old son made this while I had the luxury of going out for my 30 minute run. Like a reviewer mentioned, he used half the onion soup powder. He also used less sour cream…about 3 slightly heaping tablespoons. In addition, he added a layer of panko bread crumbs on top drizzled with some butter. It was excellent. I gave 4 stars only because he had to make some changes. He will use mozzarella cheese next time.

I have made this dish before and liked it. However, my recipe only calls for 1 cup of sour cream and is not topped with cheddar cheese which you really don’t need. Making this again for Thanksgiving.

I read through about the first 20 reviews and decided to try making my own spinach casserole. I used fresh cooked spinach, 1/2 pkg of French onion soup, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, crumbs of crackers and croutons, 1 egg. Did not use milk due to the fact that spinach has a lot of water in it. Put mix in pan, topped it off with Colby, pepper jack, cheddar, and regular jack cheese. Sprinkled crispy French fried onions and grated Parmesan. It was so delicious with all the different flavors.

Of course I didn’t have sour cream (which never happens!!!) so I substituted it with evaporated milk and a dash of lemon juice. (Google substitutions) I would recommend using half a can evaporated milk instead of the whole thing, because it’s way to runny then. I used onion mushroom soup mix and went nuts with a whole bag of shredded cheese! I used the 24 ounce package of frozen spinach…more is better!! It was so good, my daughter and I refused to share with anyone else! We nearly ate the entire dish in one sitting!

After reading other reviews I used less sour cream and added French’s Onions.

Similar to others (and because I cook “low salt”) I only used about one-third of the onion soup mix. I did used cooked swiss chard from the garden, cooked with one Walla Walla sweet onion, once for this recipe, and several times with spinach or mix of spinach and chard. We really like this and when I made for my brother’s family Sept 2014, they loved it too!

Easy/tasty and a great low carb side dish. Maybe the people that had a difficult time with it being too soupy did not “squeeze” all the liquid out of it. I am trying it today with the Knorr mix and a variety of cheeses that were left in the fridge. I ran out of Dry onion soup. I don’t see any reason though that you can’t add some regular sauteed onion and then some spices/herbs. This is a good base recipe and flavor it to your liking. Thanks for posting!

My large family of 20 and I loved this recipe. We didn’t think there was too much onion soup mix and we didn’t think it was too much like a dip (like other reviewers.) I made it exactly as the recipe said and I will definitely make it many times more. Thanks for the great recipe!

We all loved this. I did sautee garlic with the baby spinach (fresh, not frozen). Wonderful!!