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Pan-Cooked Vegetables
Vegetables

Pan-Cooked Vegetables

Greens (leafy greens, leek, cabbage, zucchini, broccoli) cooked in a pan in olive oil or butter (or over fried onion) with garlic and spices until tender, with lemon juice or yogurt at the end: spanakh, sautéed leeks.

⏱ 13 min

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Heat the olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  2. 2
    Add the spinach and cook 8–10 minutes, stirring, until it is tender and cooked down.
    Stove
  3. 3
    Season the spinach with salt and black pepper.
118calories
4 gprotein
2 gcarbs
11 gfat
● protein 12%● carbs 6%● fat 82%

Per serving (135 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Stems separately (cutting) (into small pieces) · Peeling and cutting (into thin strips) · Blanched florets (3) · Blanched until soft and drained (it softens) · Salt for the blanching water · Drying after draining (well) · Frying the blanched vegetable (minutes) (3–4) · Sliced and rinsed (1) · Olive oil (no onion) · Butter (no onion) · Dried chili · Paprika · Cumin · Hot spice · Turmeric · Seared in a single layer and flipped (2–3) · Water and a lid for a minute · garlic · Cilantro · Soy sauce · Sesame oil · Sesame on top · Toasted nuts on top · Cooked chickpeas · Vinegar · Sugar · Nutmeg · Smoked paprika · Lemon juice · Lemon zest · Honey · White wine · Thyme · Cooking with the lemon (3–4) · Parsley · Mint · Parmesan · Yogurt for serving
  • Swaps: Fresh or frozen spinach or Large leek stalks or Broccoli or White cabbage or Zucchini or Swiss chard or Potatoes or Asparagus or Padrón peppers or Endive or Chicory or Mallow (khubeiza) or Fresh fava beans or Yellow wax beans or Kohlrabi or Button mushrooms or Artichoke hearts or Brussels sprouts or Green beans or Cauliflower or Edamame pods
  • Cooking the stems (minutes): 3
  • Cutting the leaves: coarse
  • Cutting before blanching: into florets
  • Blanching cue: it is tender but still crisp
  • Word for the blanched vegetable: blanched
  • Mixing the blanched vegetable (time)
  • Cooking vessel: in a large pan
  • Heat level: medium-high
  • Frying the garlic before the vegetable: about 1 minute
  • Garlic frying cue: fragrant
  • Frying the spices
  • Second searing cue
  • Frying the garlic: 2 minutes
  • Cue for frying the garlic after the vegetable: it is fragrant
  • Toasting the nuts (minutes): 3
  • Nut toasting cue: they are golden and fragrant
  • Cooking with the chickpeas (minutes): 5
  • Second cooking cue: softens and turns golden

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