Morton’s Creamed Spinach is the creamiest way to consume your daily dose of iron: spinach. Most people find it difficult to eat the leafy vegetables due to their boring taste but this recipe will make you fall in love with the spinach itself.
Morton’s Creamed Spinach Recipe is a side dish that boosts the taste of various main course meals. With all possible ways of making a dish creamy, this toothsome recipe has cream cheese, parmesan, mozzarella, and half and half, which make it heavenly, velvety, and rich. The hints of garlic aroma further lift the flavour.
The recipe is a special one that is best served at special occasions like family dinners, easter, and Christmas. And for sure, it has all the qualities to make your dinner special and memorable.
How to Make Morton’s Creamed Spinach?
To make Morton’s Creamed Spinach, cook the spinach, and cut it into pieces. Cook onion and garlic in the unsalted butter. Then add salt, nutmeg, and black pepper. Cook again. Add flour and mix in. Cook for a few minutes. Then add half and half and boil.
Add cream cheese and mozzarella. Cook again and finally add parmesan and cooked spinach. Mix them and serve. This recipe takes 35 minutes to make.
Ingredients for Morton’s Creamed Spinach Recipe
You need the following ingredients to make Morton’s Creamed Spinach:
- Fresh leaf spinach = 2-¼ lb
- Unsalted butter = 4 tbsp
- Cream cheese = 4 oz
- Half and half = 3-½ cups
- Grated parmesan cheese = ½ cup
- Mozzarella cheese = 1 cup
- Freshly grated nutmeg = ½ tsp
- Minced yellow onion = 1 medium
- Flour = ¼ cup
- Minced garlic = 3 cloves
- Kosher salt = 4 tsp
- Coarsely ground black pepper = 1 tsp
Instructions for Morton’s Creamed Spinach
Follow this procedure to make Morton’s Creamed Spinach:
Step 1
In a large pot, add water and 2 tsp of salt. Boil the water and then add clean and washed spinach to the water. Cook for a minute or until the spinach wilts. Drain the water out of the spinach.
(by the way, if you need a crunch in your Morton’s creamed spinach, you can use frozen spinach)
Step 2
To cool down the spinach, rinse it with cold water. Then squeeze the water out. Chop the spinach bundles into ¾-inch widths.
Step 3
Take a large skillet. Add the butter and melt it. Then add minced onion and garlic and cook for 10 minutes so that the onions turn translucent.
Step 4
Add black pepper, 2 tsp of kosher salt, and nutmeg. Mix and add flour. Reduce the flame and mix the flour well. Then cook for 2-3 minutes until you can smell a nutty aroma.
Step 5
Add half and half. Bring to a boil and add cream cheese and mozzarella cheese. Cook until the mixture thickens. It will take 7-8 minutes.
Step 6
Add the cooked spinach and parmesan cheese. Stir well until combined.
Step 7
Morton’s creamed spinach is ready. Serve and enjoy!
Closing
The Morton’s Creamed Spinach is so velvety that it just melts in your mouth. If you do not like the taste of spinach, try this recipe and you will fall in love with this. The recipe beautifully balances all the flavours and blends them together in such a way as to give you a serotonin rush. So that’s not a questionable recipe? What do you think?
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Morton’s Creamed Spinach Recipe
Ingredients
- 2-¼ lb Fresh leaf spinach
- 4 tbsp Unsalted butter
- 4 oz Cream cheese
- 3-½ cups Half and half
- ½ cup Grated parmesan cheese
- 1 cup Mozzarella cheese
- ½ tsp Freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 medium Minced yellow onion
- ¼ cup Flour
- 3 cloves Minced garlic
- 4 tsp Kosher salt
- 1 tsp Coarsely ground black pepper
Instructions
- In a large pot, add water and 2 tsp of salt. Boil the water and then add clean and washed spinach to the water. Cook for a minute or until the spinach wilts. Drain the water out of the spinach.
- To cool down the spinach, rinse it with cold water. Then squeeze the water out. Chop the spinach bundles into ¾-inch widths.
- Take a large skillet. Add the butter and melt it. Then add minced onion and garlic and cook for 10 minutes so that the onions turn translucent.
- Add black pepper, 2 tsp of kosher salt, and nutmeg. Mix and add flour. Reduce the flame and mix the flour well. Then cook for 2-3 minutes until you can smell a nutty aroma.
- Add half and half. Bring to a boil and add cream cheese and mozzarella cheese. Cook until the mixture thickens. It will take 7-8 minutes.
- Add the cooked spinach and parmesan cheese. Stir well until combined.
- Morton’s creamed spinach is ready. Serve and enjoy!
