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Featured Recipe: Spinach Salad with Japanese Ginger Dressing

Super-easy recipes for super-nutritious spinach recipes from the EatingWell Test Kitchen.

By Carolyn Malcoun, Associate Editor, EatingWell September/October 2008

Healthy Spinach Recipes

Perhaps the most avid fan of spinach was Catherine de Medici, queen of France in the 16th century. When she left Florence to marry King Henry II, she brought her loyal cooks with her because they knew precisely how to cook spinach to her liking. Thanks to Queen Catherine, “à la Florentine” has come to mean “served on a bed of spinach.”

It’s a bed that’s as nutritious as it is delicious—chock-full of vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin K, along with a healthy dose of fiber, potassium, iron, calcium and magnesium. These four easy recipes let spinach take the starring role. Our riff on a traditional Japanese steakhouse salad trades spinach for the iceberg lettuce and dresses it with spicy ginger dressing. Parmesan-flecked spinach cakes are like a crustless version of the Greek favorite, spanikopita. Fresh spinach barely wilts when dressed with a warm shallot-paprika-olive dressing. And what could be more versatile than sautéed spinach with lemon and garlic? So stop hiding it underneath a hunk of meat and give spinach the royal treatment tonight.

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