{"id":24615,"date":"2025-04-07T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24615"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:39:36","slug":"quick-and-easy-ways-to-prepare-spinach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/quick-and-easy-ways-to-prepare-spinach\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and Easy Ways to Prepare Spinach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24616\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spinach-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24616\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spinach-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spinach-photo-from-Freepik.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spinach-photo-from-Freepik-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">spinach photo from Freepik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, says you can use spinach anywhere you normally use lettuce \u2014 on 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<p>To 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<p>Use 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 &#8220;creamed&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more interesting spinach facts, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_cooking_tips.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_cooking_tips.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Vegan Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, says you can use spinach anywhere you normally use lettuce \u2014 on 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 [&hellip;]<\/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-24615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615","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=24615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24617,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615\/revisions\/24617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}