In summer, our body needs to stock up with energy and energy so that the illnesses pass by, and a good mood is always present. Garden gifts in the hot season contain a large number of vitamins. Therefore, it is worthwhile to seriously think that in winter there would be dishes on your table, the main ingredient of which is frozen spinach. It contains a large amount of vitamin A, B6, C, K, magnesium, iron and folic acid .
Ingredients:
- fresh spinach - in unlimited quantities.
Preparation
Before freezing spinach for the winter, thoroughly wash it and cut the thick legs. After that, cut the cooked greens into small strips 1 cm wide. Next, chopped spinach should be poured with boiling water and leave to drain into a colander. After the liquid finally leaves - place the vessel with the cooked leaves for a while in the refrigerator. And then sort the vitamin billet into plastic pouches or plastic dishes of small size and place in the freezer in the emergency freezing mode.
But, even in such a simple question, how to properly freeze spinach, you can make unrecoverable mistakes that will make of this vitamin product useless herb. Caloric content of frozen spinach is low enough due to the fact that the most important component of this product is water (about 90%).
After all the summer procedures done, according to the above algorithm, now it's time to think about the pleasant moment - the preparation of frozen spinach. You can surprise your family by saying that the leaves of frozen spinach are often used for green borsch, instead of sorrel, in soups, casseroles and even to enrich the taste of meat dishes in the form of sauces.
As you can see, spinach can be frozen in the summer, when there is so much tasty and useful around, and in winter to extract from the freezer a whole source of vitamins and essential substances for the body.