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Ispanak Yemeği (Spinach)

Asia › Turkey
serves 4 55 min Medium 4 versions
Gluten-free Dinner Baked Stovetop
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Baked Spinach with Egg

One of 4 versions of Ispanak Yemeği (Spinach) · the most complete write-up. The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 500 gram spinach
  • 4 piece egg
  • 1 piece onion
  • 200 gram pastırma (air-dried cured beef) · or 1 tablespoon of çemen
  • 250 gram minced meat
  • half water glass (200 ml) grated kaşar cheese
  • half water glass (200 ml) oil
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • half teaspoon black pepper

How to make it

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  1. Pick over the spinach, wash it and drain it.
  2. Put it in a pan without adding any water and cook it in its own liquid for 3-4 minutes, until it softens a little.
    4 min
  3. Put the fat in a pan.
  4. Chop the onions into half-moons and soften them until pink.
  5. Add the minced meat and fry it until it changes colour.
  6. Put the pastırma, or a spoonful of çemen, into the pan.
  7. Chop the spinach and add it to the pan.
  8. Cook for another 3-5 minutes, stirring now and then.
    5 min
  9. Transfer the dish to a small tray and smooth it down with a spoon.
  10. Open four hollows in the spinach and break the eggs into them.
  11. Add the salt and the black pepper and put it in the oven.
  12. Keep it in the oven until the eggs are cooked.
  13. Take it out and serve it piping hot.
Tips

If you are going to use kaşar cheese, scatter it over the eggs before it goes in the oven. It can also be made without minced meat, with çemen alone; what really gives the dish its taste is the pastırma or the çemen, so do not skip it. You can cook it in a pan instead of the oven.

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Ispanak Yemeği (Spinach) versions

They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.

Baked, with minced meat and egg base With lentils, tomato paste and lemon With rice, the plainest With semolina, milk, gratinated
Ingredient Baked, with minced meat and egg With lentils, tomato paste and lemon With rice, the plainest With semolina, milk, gratinated
black pepper ✓ ✓ — ✓
onion ✓ ✓ ✓ —
egg ✓ — — ✓
kaşar cheese ✓ — — ✓
oil ✓ — ✓ —
butter — — — ✓
flour — — — ✓
green lentils — ✓ — —
lemon juice — ✓ — —
margarine — ✓ — —
milk — — — ✓
minced meat ✓ — — —
pastırma (air-dried cured beef) ✓ — — —
pepper paste — ✓ — —
rice — — ✓ —
semolina — — — ✓

With lentils, tomato paste and lemon

serves 4 50 min

Spinach chopped with its roots, added to fried onion with tomato paste together with boiled green lentils, and finished with lemon.

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With rice, the plainest

serves 4 40 min

Boiled spinach fried with grated onion and brought together with boiled rice: a plain dish built on four ingredients.

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With semolina, milk, gratinated

serves 4 55 min

Spinach cooked with semolina boiled in milk, bound with egg and browned in the oven under an egg yolk sauce with kaşar cheese.

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