One-Pan Creamed Spinach With Eggs 

Published Feb. 11, 2023

One-Pan Creamed Spinach With Eggs 
Bobbi Lin for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Eugene Jho.
Total Time
20 minutes
Rating
4(844)
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This pantry-powered dish brings together the decadence of creamed spinach with the comfort of baked eggs. Big flavor with little effort, this recipe requires no chopping and just a handful of staple ingredients: Frozen spinach is combined with cream cheese and garlic powder to create a wonderfully aromatic and silky base for the eggs to nestle and steam within. Covering the eggs while they cook will give you irresistibly soft whites and gooey yolks. If you’d like a little spice, finish with some red-pepper flakes or chile oil.

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Ingredients

Yield:4 servings
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2(10-ounce) packages frozen chopped spinach, preferably thawed
  • 1teaspoon garlic powder (or 1 or 2 garlic cloves, grated)
  • Kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal) and black pepper
  • 1(8-ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 4large eggs
  • Sourdough toast or crusty bread, for serving
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Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)

380 calories; 29 grams fat; 14 grams saturated fat; 1 gram trans fat; 10 grams monounsaturated fat; 3 grams polyunsaturated fat; 17 grams carbohydrates; 4 grams dietary fiber; 4 grams sugars; 16 grams protein; 625 milligrams sodium

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Heat a medium (10-inch) well-seasoned cast iron or nonstick skillet on medium-high. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and add the spinach. Cover with a lid and cook until it is soft enough to break apart; this should take 2 to 3 minutes if it’s thawed and about 5 to 8 minutes if it’s still frozen. Remove the lid and stir to break up the spinach and cook uncovered until most of the liquid has evaporated but it’s not completely dry, 2 to 4 minutes. Stir in the garlic powder and season with ¾ teaspoon salt and about 1 teaspoon black pepper.

  2. Step 2

    Reduce heat to medium. Add the cream cheese and stir well until combined. Cook for 2 minutes until the mixture is warmed through.

  3. Step 3

    Make a divot for each egg and pour a little olive oil into the hole before adding the egg. (This is easiest to do one divot at a time.) Once you have added all the eggs, cover and cook for 5 to 8 minutes, until whites are just set and yolks are cooked to your liking.

  4. Step 4

    To serve, drizzle with olive oil and eat immediately, with bread.

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If you don't want the extra calories and really enjoy spinach, please know that this preparation tastes very good using just the spinach. I make it all the time using straight from the freezer chopped spinach into an oiled frying pan. When the spinach is thawed and cooked, I add one or two eggs. It's a great, quick and tasty meal for one person. Such recipes are easily adaptable. Have fun and enjoy.

Rich and fantastic. Not me, but the dish. Made with cream cheese and goat cheese. This is a recipe with which you can have fun experimenting. (Note: No prepositions were harmed or dangled in the previous sentence.). If you want your yolks to be runny, start checking them EARLY. And remember that even when you take the pan off the burner, the yolks will firm up a bit when you tend to the bread/toast you forgot about until the last minute.

Subbed in plain Greek yogurt for the cream cheese.

Cannot recommend this enough, it’s absolutely delicious. The cream cheese can easily be swapped with Greek yogurt for a healthier preparation

This was easy to prepare but really uninteresting. If I tried again I would definitely use fresh garlic and more of it, and try some of the adds and subs suggested.

Cut back on the cream cheese. It was a bit rich for me.

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