{"id":15622,"date":"2020-06-12T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:32:58","slug":"quick-and-easy-ideas-for-using-spinach-in-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/quick-and-easy-ideas-for-using-spinach-in-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and Easy Ideas for Using Spinach in Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Each issue of Vegetarian Journal<\/em> runs a column called Vegan Cooking Tips, by Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD. In the most recent column Nancy focuses on spinach and offers many ideas for preparing spinach-focused dishes that are quick and easy. For example, Nancy states, \u201cUse spinach anywhere you normally use lettuce\u2014on sandwiches, chopped in wraps or tacos, or in salads. Fresh spinach is a hearty base for entr\u00e9e salads. Toss fresh spinach with finely diced pineapple, sliced strawberries, chopped pistachios, sunflower seeds or soy nuts, and nutritional yeast. Create a dressing with balsamic vinegar, pineapple juice, and touch of mustard.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTo quickly (and we mean quickly) cook spinach, spray a frying pan with vegetable oil, sprinkle in some chopped fresh or dried garlic, and get the pan hot. Toss in the spinach and flash saut\u00e9, turning constantly. This should take one or two minutes, tops.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cUse your stove-saut\u00e9ed spinach as a hot or cold vegetable with your entr\u00e9e, as part of a sandwich filling, to top pizza, or added to a tofu scramble. If you would like to make \u201ccreamed\u201d spinach, whisk crumbled silken tofu or vegan sour cream into the saut\u00e9ed greens, just as you are removing them from the stove. If you have leftover cooked spinach, you can pur\u00e9e it and add it to hummus, salad dressings, or soups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read this entire column here: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_cooking_tips.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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Each issue of Vegetarian Journal runs a column called Vegan Cooking Tips, by Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD. In the most recent column Nancy focuses on spinach and offers many ideas for preparing spinach-focused dishes that are quick and easy. For example, Nancy states, \u201cUse spinach anywhere you normally use lettuce\u2014on sandwiches, chopped in wraps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}