Creamed Spinach From Lawry’s Prime Rib (house Of Prime Rib

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb fresh spinach
• 3 -4 slices bacon
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 1 medium onion
• 1 dash salt and pepper
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup whole milk

Recipe

• 1 boil spinach (not too well done). remove from heat, wash spinach in cold water, squeeze dry. put through food grinder and set aside. grind bacon and saute in a skillet. grind onion and add to bacon with garlic, salt and pepper. saute until all moisture is gone.
• 2 make a medium cream sauce with butter, flour and milk (see note above). add ground spinach, onion, and bacon mixture to the cream sauce and bring to a slow boil. remove from heat and serve. ***the instrructions say to make a medium cream sauce with butter, flour and milk. this is a béchamel (bay-shah-mel) sauce, which is a french sauce that can be made thin (1 tbsp each butter and flour to 1 cup milk), medium (2 tbsp each butter and flour to 1 cup milk), or thick (3 tbsp each butter and flour to 1 cup milk). you make the sauce by stiring the milk into a roux, which is made by slowly mixing the flour into the softened butter over very low heat.