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Ispanak Yemeği (Spinach)

Asia › Turkey
serves 4 55 min Medium 4 versions
Meat-free Vegetarian Dinner Baked Stovetop
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Spinach with Semolina

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

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 500 gram spinach
  • 2 water glass (200 ml) milk
  • 1 tablespoon semolina
  • 3 piece egg
  • 2 tablespoon butter
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 3 tablespoon kaşar cheese · grated
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • half teaspoon black pepper

How to make it

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  1. Wash the spinach thoroughly in plenty of water and chop it very finely.
  2. Put the milk in a pan.
  3. Add the semolina and bring it to the boil.
  4. Put the spinach into the pan as well, together with 1 tablespoon of butter.
  5. Cook over a low heat for 15 minutes.
    15 min
  6. Set aside one of the yolks from the three eggs.
  7. Beat the remaining eggs with salt and black pepper.
  8. Add them to the spinach mixture.
  9. Spread it over a greased baking tray.
  10. Melt the remaining butter and cook the flour in it.
  11. Stir in the grated kaşar cheese.
  12. Add the egg yolk you set aside as well and drizzle it over the spinach.
  13. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees until it is well browned.
Tips

The semolina draws the milk in and holds the mixture together; if you add the semolina before the milk boils, it will go lumpy.

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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 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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