Simple Fresh Spinach Gratin

Total time: 45 minutes
     Fresh spinach cooks quickly, with a bit of stock to keep it moist.  It's topped with a seasoned mix of bread crumbs and shredded cheese for a quick, healthy side dish.

 Ingredients:

• 12oz (350gr) fresh spinach, 340gr, 12oz
• 2/3 cup chicken stock, 150gr, 5.3oz
• 1/2 cup shredded cheese, 60gr, 2.1oz
• 1/3 dry bread crumbs, 36gr, 1.3oz
• 1 tsp thyme
• 2 tsp olive oil, 9gr, .32oz

 Instructions:

• Remove thick stems from spinach and roughly chop: pile the leaves up and cut through 2 or 3 times. 
• Put spinach in oiled baking dish just large enough to hold it.  I used my 8 X 11 inch (20 X 27.5cm) oval ceramic dish.
• Heat stock and pour stock over spinach.
• Mix bread crumbs, thyme and cheese and sprinkle over spinach.
• Cover with foil and bake at 375F (190C) for 30 minutes.  Serve from baking dish.

Note:  I could barely get all the spinach in my dish; I had to press it down. Heating the stock helped wilt it so that it wasn't higher than the sides of the baking dish.  As it bakes, it collapses, and the gratin topping comes together. 

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2             Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:   558 / 279 Total Carbohydrates:  40 / 20           Dietary Fiber:   10 / 5 Total Fat:  32 / 16          Saturated Fat:  14 / 7 Cholesterol:   70 / 35 Protein:   29 / 14.5 Calcium:  1024 / 512 Sodium:    713 / 356.5

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/