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white bowl of sauteed spinach with caramelized onions with a fork with some on it
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Spinach with Caramelized Onions

This spinach with caramelized onions recipe is great flavor filled side dish you can whip up with only 6 ingredients and 30 minutes of your time.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword sauteed spinach, spinach with caramelized onions, spinach with onions
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 2 servings
Calories 200kcal

Ingredients

  • 6 cups fresh spinach
  • 1 cup thin sliced onions
  • 2 TBSP butter
  • 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 2 TSP olive oil
  • 1 1/2 TSP minced garlic
  • pinch of salt and pepper

Instructions

  • Cut onion in thin slices
  • In a big pan melt butter over medium/high heat and add sliced onions and stir and cook for 10 minutes
  • Add chicken broth and cook for 5 minutes
  • Add olive oil and garlic to the pan and cook for 5 minutes
  • Add spinach to the pan and cook and stir for approximately 10 minutes

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Notes

  • This dish is more of a lightly caramelized onion, but if you want really caramelized do steps 1-3 but for much longer until the onions turn a golden color
  • Do use fresh spinach. Frozen spinach will be so full of water when defrosted it will not taste the same
  • I prefer baby spinach due to the size of the leaves, but if you use regular spinach just chop it up a bit
  • I prefer sweet onions for this dish because it brings a little sweetness to that semi bitter spinach taste
  • If needing to double the recipe for more servings I suggest cooking all the onions like steps 1-3 then remove half of the onions and follow the recipe as directed. After that is cooked follow the rest of the recipe with the other half of onions. Once all cooked add it all together to give even temperature. Unless you have a super huge pan to do it all at once.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 200kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 30mg | Sodium: 391mg | Potassium: 666mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 8795IU | Vitamin C: 36mg | Calcium: 108mg | Iron: 2.7mg