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Ispanak Yemeği (Spinach)

Asia › Turkey
serves 4 50 min Easy 4 versions
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Spinach with Lentils

One of 4 versions of Ispanak Yemeği (Spinach). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 1 kilogram spinach · with the roots
  • 2 piece onion
  • 5 tablespoon margarine
  • 1 dessert spoon pepper paste
  • 1 water glass (200 ml) green lentils · boiled
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • half piece juice of the lemon

How to make it

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  1. Chop the spinach, red roots and all, as you would for a stew, and wash it well.
  2. Chop the onions very finely.
  3. Melt the margarine in a pan and fry the onions until they turn pink.
  4. Add the tomato paste and the lentils and stir.
  5. Add the washed spinach on top, wet as it is, without squeezing it.
  6. Sprinkle over the salt and the black pepper and cook over a low heat for 20 minutes.
    20 min
  7. Before taking it off the heat, squeeze in the lemon juice, cook for another 5 minutes and serve.
    5 min
Tips

Do not squeeze the spinach; the washing water on it is the only liquid in the dish, and if you squeeze it out the dish will catch on the bottom.

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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 — — — ✓

Baked, with minced meat and egg

serves 4 55 min

Spinach fried with minced meat and pastırma, transferred to a tray, with eggs broken into hollows opened in it and baked.

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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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