Spinach is a highly nutritious vegetable that contains iron, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C, making it known as the “master of iron and calcium supplementation”. Eating spinach regularly also has many health benefits such as soothing, weight loss, nourishing the body, and boosting the immune system.
Not only good for health, spinach is a food with a crispy, sweet, refreshing taste and versatile in processing. With this ingredient, you can make many delicious and nutritious dishes such as boiled spinach, spinach and shrimp soup, boiled spinach… and garlic stir-fried spinach.
When making garlic stir-fried spinach, many people choose to stir-fry the raw spinach in the pan, so the spinach is often bitter, astringent, less attractive, and significantly reduces the nutrient content. Therefore, to create an attractive garlic stir-fried spinach dish, you can follow the simple recipe below.
1. Spinach stir-fry ingredients
– Spinach
– Garlic, purple onions, dried chili
– Seasonings: Seasoning powder, salt, MSG
2. How to make delicious garlic stir-fried spinach
Step 1: Prepare the ingredients
– After buying spinach, remove the wilted leaves, yellowed leaves, and discard the old stems. Then, wash the spinach and put it in a colander to drain.
– Peel the purple onions and garlic, then wash them and chop them finely.
– Slice the dried chili.
Step 2: Blanch the spinach
– Bring a pot of water to a boil. Then, add a few drops of salt to the pot and blanch the spinach briefly.
– Use a fork or cooking utensil to stir evenly to ensure that the spinach is cooked evenly, then scoop it out and put it separately on a clean plate. Do not blanch the spinach for too long to avoid making it soft and mushy.
Step 3: Stir-fry the spinach with garlic
– Place the pan on the stove, add a little cooking oil and heat it up. Then, add the chopped purple onions, garlic, and dried chili to the pan and stir-fry until fragrant.
– Season the spinach with a little salt, soy sauce, seasoning powder, and sugar, then stir evenly to let the dish absorb the flavor.
– Add a little water to the stir-fry and continue cooking until the spinach is tender and flavorful. Then, turn off the heat and transfer the dish to a plate.
When eating garlic stir-fried spinach, you will feel the crisp and flavorful spinach. You can enjoy this dish as a side dish or serve it with white rice.
3. Notes for stir-frying spinach with garlic
– Depending on your taste and preference, you can choose to buy white or red spinach. However, you should buy bundles of spinach with vibrant green leaves (for white spinach) and red-purple leaves (for red spinach).
– Choose spinach with firm stems, not smashed or rotten, because it can be stored for a longer time without wilting.
– When blanching spinach, add enough water to cover the surface of the spinach and then transfer it to a bowl of cold water after blanching to keep it crispy.
– The cooking time for spinach leaves and stems is different, so you need to separate them for blanching. After the stems are cooked, then add the leaves.
– To make the dish more delicious, you can also use pork lard instead of cooking oil.
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