Best Spinach With Apples And Pine Nuts Recipes

SAUTEED SPINACH WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• toast pine nuts lightly in pan and set aside. Watch carefully these are easy to burn!
• In large skillet warm olive oil then add garlic. Cook garlic just until it starts to pop then add spinach and lemon juice.
• Keep tossing spinach and as it starts to wilt and add in pine nuts; add light sea salt and cracked pepper to taste.
• You want to cook spinach until it's just completely wilted, but not until it's mush. Turn off heat, add grated cheese and toss lightly as it melts. Remove from pan to serving dish and top with a little more grated cheese and you're ready to go.

ESPINACA A LA CATALAN (CATALAN-STYLE SPINACH)

Steps:

• *NOTE: Original recipe specified a golden delicious apple. However any apple variety that holds its shape well for baking will work in this recipe: Rome beauty, braeburn, gala, for example.
• Heat the olive oil in a large pan over a medium-high flame.
• When the oil is very hot, add the apple cubes and cook until they are lightly browned; about 1-2 minutes.
• Add the pine nuts and cook until they are lightly browned; about 20-30 seconds. Watch pan carefully as the pine nuts can burn quite easily! *Constantly stir the nuts to avoid burning.*.
• Add the raisins and the 1/2 teaspoon salt; stir together. Add the spinach and sauté very fast until it just starts to wilt; about another 20-30 seconds.
• Now remove the pan from the heat; the spinach will continue to wilt off the heat.
• Add salt to taste, and serve immediately.

SPINACH AND PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Wash the spinach, but allow the water to cling to the leaves. Cook the spinach until it wilts in a skillet over medium-high heat, about 3 minutes.
• Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the spinach, pine nuts, and garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Season with pepper and serve.

WILTED SPINACH WITH RAISINS AND APPLES

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium heat.
• Add raisins, pine nuts, apples, and onion, and cook about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until raisins plump.
• Stir salt into raisin mixture.
• Add spinach, tossing until spinach is just wilted.
• Serve immediately, with wedges of lemon to squeeze over spinach if desired.

SPINACH WITH PINE NUTS AND RAISINS

Steps:

• Rinse the spinach well and remove the stems. Place in a large sauté pan with only the rinsing water clinging to the leaves. Cook over medium heat, turning as needed until wilted, just a few minutes. Drain well and set aside. Add the olive oil to the now-empty pan and place over medium heat. Add the onions and sauté until tender, about 8 minutes. Add the spinach, raisins, and pine nuts and sauté briefly to warm through. Season with salt and pepper and serve warm or at room temperature.

CATALAN SPINACH

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in each of 2 heavy large pots over high heat. Divide apples between pots and sauté until golden brown around edges, about 3 minutes. Divide pine nuts between pots; sauté until pine nuts are lightly toasted, about 3 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to each pot. Divide shallots and raisins between pots; stir to combine. Divide spinach between pots; cover and cook just until wilted, stirring occasionally, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper; transfer to bowl and serve.

SAUTEED SPINACH WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Pick over the spinach leaves and remove the large stems. Wash and drain well. Remove all the moisture by placing between paper towels and patting dry.
• In a large skillet over high heat, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and half the spinach, half the nutmeg and half the pine nuts. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook and toss very quickly until the spinach is just wilted. Drain. Repeat the procedure with the remaining ingredients and serve hot.

SPINACH WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Place olive oil, garlic, and water in a skillet on medium high heat.
• Once skillet is hot, add spinach. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Stir and cook until spinach is wilted.
• Adjust heat to low or simmer. Add pine nuts. Cook covered for 1 minute. Add red pepper flakes, if desired. Cook one minute more.
• Enjoy!