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Spinach Recipes

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21 recipes

Mushroom Wellington with portobello mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms and puff pastry — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mushroom Wellington

A log of portobello mushrooms, duxelles, wilted spinach, and caramelized onion wrapped in golden, shattering puff pastry. This is the dish that makes vegan holiday cooking feel genuinely festive rather than compensatory. The key is managing moisture at every stage — mushrooms that are properly dried, spinach that is squeezed out, a filling that is cold when it meets the pastry. Get those things right and the pastry bakes crisp and dry rather than soggy at the base. The scored top, the knife going through the layers, the steam that rises — it's one of those dishes that impresses the table before anyone has even tasted it.

75 min480 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan

Vegan Coconut Curry with tofu, curry paste and coconut milk — Thailand recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Vegan Coconut Curry

Crispy-edged tofu and vegetables simmered in a fragrant coconut-and-curry-paste sauce, finished with lime juice and fresh herbs. The kind of dish that makes your kitchen smell extraordinary and tastes like it took much longer than it did. The curry paste does most of the flavor work — frying it in oil first releases the aromatics fully before the coconut milk goes in, which is the step that transforms a flat-tasting sauce into something layered and complex. Serve over jasmine rice with extra lime and a scatter of Thai basil.

35 min440 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Spanakopita with spinach, feta and phyllo pastry — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Spanakopita

Layers of phyllo pastry brushed with olive oil encasing a filling of spinach, feta, fresh dill, spring onions, and eggs. The moisture in the spinach is the main technical challenge — any liquid that reaches the phyllo turns it soft rather than crisp. The filling must be squeezed very dry before anything else happens. The phyllo must stay covered while you work — it dries and cracks in seconds of exposure. Neither problem is difficult, both just require attention. This recipe makes a baking-dish pie that serves 6; it slices cleanly and is equally good warm or at room temperature.

70 min380 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice Bowl) with short grain white rice, beef and gochujang — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice Bowl)

Korea's most celebrated rice dish: a bowl of short-grain rice topped with individually seasoned and cooked vegetables (namul), thinly sliced marinated beef, a sunny-side-up egg, and gochujang sauce — then mixed together at the table before eating. The name says it exactly: bibim means 'mixing', bap means 'cooked rice'. Each vegetable component is prepared separately to preserve its own color, texture, and flavor. The dolsot version (stone bowl bibimbap) adds one more element: the rice touching the bowl's searing hot walls forms nurungji — a golden crispy crust at the bottom. The best-known regional version comes from Jeonju, in the south-west of South Korea, where it is made with soybean sprouts and often topped with raw beef.

60 min810 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Spinach and Artichoke Dip with cream cheese, sour cream and spinach — USA recipe

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Sauces and Dips

Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Hot, cheesy, and straightforward — this is the version that disappears first at any party. Cream cheese is the base, mozzarella provides the gooeyness, parmesan does the seasoning work, and sour cream keeps the whole thing from being too dense. The two non-negotiables: squeeze the frozen spinach until your hands ache, and let the cream cheese reach room temperature before you try to mix anything. Watery spinach ruins the texture. Cold cream cheese makes a lumpy mess. Everything else is flexible.

35 min290 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew) with ground egusi seeds, palm oil and smoked fish — Nigeria recipe

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Soups

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew)

Egusi soup is one of Nigeria's most widely eaten soups — a thick, richly savoury stew built on ground egusi, the dried seeds of a West African melon. The seeds are fried in red palm oil until nutty and set into soft lumps, then simmered with beef, smoked fish, ground crayfish, and fermented locust beans for deep umami, finished with leafy greens. It's hearty, nutty, and satisfying, eaten with pounded yam, eba, or rice.

95 min800 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry with frozen dumplings, coconut milk and red curry paste — USA recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry

The dumpling bake is a one-dish shortcut that went viral on social media and earned its reputation honestly: a coconut and red curry sauce whisked straight into the baking dish, a bag of frozen dumplings set into it, foil on top, and about 35 minutes later a pan of tender dumplings sitting in a silky, spoonable broth. Nothing is fried, nothing is folded, and the dumplings absorb the curry as they steam. Finished with chili crisp and coriander, it tastes far more deliberate than the effort it takes.

45 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Palak Paneer with spinach, paneer and green chilies — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Palak Paneer

Palak paneer pairs soft cubes of fresh cheese with a smooth North Indian spinach gravy. The sauce should taste green and gently spiced, not bitter or overloaded with cream; hot roti or cumin rice is all it needs.

45 min465 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Kimbap with short grain rice, nori and pickled radish — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Kimbap

The Korean seaweed rice roll built for lunchboxes and picnics: short-grain rice seasoned with sesame oil, rolled in a sheet of gim with strips of yellow pickled radish, carrot, spinach, egg, and crab, then sliced into rounds. It looks like sushi, but the sesame-oil rice makes it nutty and savoury, and the fillings are cooked, pickled or crisp fresh vegetables, so the roll packs neatly into a lunchbox.

50 min320 kcal4 serves

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