Flan Spinach

• Difficulty: easy
• Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
• Servings: 6 people
• Calories: 235 / serving

We offer you a classic spinach flan to make now that it is their season, and they are fresh and at a reasonable price, in fact spinach is one of the vegetables of the Winter. You can serve this spinach flan as a refined side dish for roast meats, or as a first course pairing it with tomato sauce or meat sauce, or as a main dish by serving it with a veal stew perhaps enriched with mushrooms. This flan should be cooked in a bain-marie in the oven, but we also experimented with the microwave, with a good result.

Ingrediants

• 600 g. of boiled spinach
• 6 eggs
• 3 heaping tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese
• a handful of dried raisins (optional)
• ground cinnamon to taste
• freshly ground or crushed pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• bechamel prepared using half a liter of milk following our recipe
• butter for the mold

Preparation

1. 1. Clean and wash the spinach carefully.

1. 1. Cook them without adding more water.

1. 1. Drain the spinach and let it cool.

1. 1. If you use it, put the raisins to soak in warm water.

1. 1. Squeeze the spinach carefully.

1. 1. Finely chop them using a food processor, and place them in a bowl.

1. 1. Add the drained and squeezed raisins.

1. 1. Add the grated Parmesan.

1. 1. Continue adding the eggs.

1. 1. Flavor with ground cinnamon, a little pepper and salt.

1. 1. Mix everything to mix well, check the salt.

add some mozzarella cubes from the pizza to make this dish more delicious

1. 1. Meanwhile, prepare the béchamel.

1. 1. Add the béchamel to the spinach mixture, and mix carefully.

1. 1. Grease a ring mold.

1. 1. Pour the spinach mixture into the mold.

1. 1. Place the mold in a pan by placing a sheet of kitchen paper underneath, and fill it with hot water.

1. 1. Cook the spinach flan in the oven at 200 degrees (we used the convection electric oven) for about 50 minutes.
   2. Remove the pan from the oven, being careful as it contains boiling water, then remove the mold from the pan.

1. 1. Turn the mold upside down on a serving dish.

1. 1. Serve the flan warm or at room temperature on its own as a side dish, or as a first course or single course accompanying it with tomato sauce or meat sauce or with chopped stewed meat.

1. 1. We also did an experiment by cooking part of the spinach dough in a bowl in the microwave at maximum power for two minutes.

1. 1. The result was comparable to that of cooking in a bain-marie, perhaps just slightly overcooked.

This recipe comes from Artusi’s book “The science of cooking and the art of eating well”, but we have seen that it is also possible to make it with the microwave.