Which tastes better frozen or fresh spinach?!
I remember hating spinach as a child, but here recently I have been eating fresh spinach sauteed. I was wondering if it was the frozen that I didn't like as a child, or have my taste buds changed.
Which do you prefer?
Answers: Thinking about making a soup and I want to use what tastes best.
I remember hating spinach as a child, but here recently I have been eating fresh spinach sauteed. I was wondering if it was the frozen that I didn't like as a child, or have my taste buds changed.
Which do you prefer?
I like fresh for just about everything but dips.
It was canned that i never liked.. all the salt they put in, and just well.. yuck..
but Ive never had problems with fresh or frozen
My favorite soup is a version of italian wedding soup.
chicken broth, frozen meatballs, fresh spinach & small pastas. thats it. garnish with little parm cheese.
I like to use frozen in soups, but the taste is different and I really like it...the fresh I use in salads. Don't like to cook it as it cooks into nothing.
FRESH
its really according what you want to cook ....
Frozen spinach is good for using for dips...
Fresh spinach is good for salads, sandwiches..and adding a bit (1 handful) to soups..and you only add the spinach when you almost ready to serve it....*sorry , but that is why your saying it cooks away...you added it to soon*
fresh spinach is definately better
FRESH is BEST
Fresh tastes much better to me.
I think vagina goes wonderfully with soup.
Mmm, spinach sauteed in olive oil. Yummy. It was probably the "idea" of something green that repulsed you as a child. My son is almost three, and he won't eat anything green straight-out. But if it's mixed up in something. Like in sausage or in pasta, he's fine. So see, it's not the tastebuds; it's not wanting to eat something that looks yucky.
Frozen spinach, and canned spinach, have a really cooked taste. They strive for this taste in Southern cooking. But I like the minimally cooked version.
But your taste buds have definitely changed since you were a child. The ratio between sweet, sour, bitter, etc change as we age. Also, one gets bored with the sameO, sameO.
Either will work. But try the fresh with the fresh soup and by tomorrow the leftovers will have the more cooked spinach.
I prefer frozen when cooking with it.
Fresh cooked and uncooked
Fresh
I would use frozen, just make sure it is thawed then drained well. I'm not sure what kind of soup (I know there is a link but my computer won't go to it.) If it is more of a broth-y soup then no real need to drain it. If it is one such as a cream of spinach soup then drain it. Save the liquid though and use it in another recipe.
You can use fresh, just sautee in butter or olive oil, it does reduce a lot in volume when you cook it in anyway. Drain it if you sautee as well. It will still release a lot of liquid.
fresh is much nicer but you have to blanch it in boiling salt water for a couple of Min's then take out and put into ice water to quickly stop the cooking process this stops it from going like mush. but if your putting it into a soup use the frozen stuff, less hassle good luck from Nicki