Today we will present you a recipe for a delicious and healthy Cream Of Spinach Soup Recipe, suitable for every season. With this appetizer, you will get the valuable vitamins and minerals that Popeye the Sailor can’t live without 🙂
The German chemist Erich von Wolf inadvertently misplaced the decimal point when he found the amount of iron in 100 grams of spinach and instead of 3.5 mg he wrote 35 mg in a medical journal from 1870. That’s where the mistake started.
Elsie Crisler Segar, a well-known American cartoonist, created in 1929 the character “Popeye the Sailor”, later misused by the entertainment industry with the popular belief that if one eats spinach, one will become very strong due to the high iron content.
Cream Of Spinach Soup Recipe
A warming and nutritious soup full of useful substances for the cold months. You can choose an option for the cream of spinach soup to be with fresh milk and butter or with ready cooking cream, but we prefer to use the first option fresh.
Ingredients
- 500 g of spinach;
- 20 gr. onion;
- 20 grams of carrots;
- 20 gr. whole;
- 60 gr. flour;
- 50 g of butter;
- 300 ml. milk;
- 1 egg;
- that;
- white pepper.
* you can replace the fresh milk and butter with 250ml cooking cream of your choice.
How to make Cream Of Spinach Soup Recipe
Finely chop the onion, carrots and celery and sauté them in a little oil. You clean the spinach, wash it and boil it in salted water for 3 minutes, uncovered, to keep its fresh green color.
Mash the stewed vegetables together with the cooked spinach well. You make a mixture of butter and flour, which you dilute with fresh milk. Add the spinach puree and vegetables and dilute to the desired thickness with the water in which the spinach was boiled.
This spinach cream soup is boiled for 10-15 minutes, then you add the egg. You serve the finished soup with croutons, baked slices as you like best.
Good luck!
If you liked this recipe for cream of spinach soup recipe, you might also like our suggestion for Cream of Pumpkin Soup as well as cream soup with potatoes and pumpkin .
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