Do you love everything creamy? Here you will find a vegan creamed spinach, which not only children and Popeye love.
The creamed spinach is wonderful tangy and ideal as a side dish for your dinner or lunch.
Prepare with fresh spinach or frozen spinach. With the help of cashew cream it will be super creamy.
This dairy-free spinach side dish is also keto friendly and low carb.
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Soy-free
For making creamy sauces, I just love cashews.
These are super creamy when cooking and taste neutral, so you can play with the spices, without having a taste. It is ideal for this vegan creamed spinach.
It works best if you soak the cashews in hot water before blending them in a blender.
The store-bought soy creams have mostly thickener as an ingredients and cashews are so easy to easy and you need nothing else.
Without additives or flavor enhancers
With this vegan cream spinach you get a whole food plant-based recipe that works without any flavor enhancers or additives. Have you heard of whole food plant-based diet already?
If not, this diet is about eating vegan (plant based) and not consuming highly processed products like refined flours, oils, and others.
Instead, natural sources of fat are used (nuts, avocado, olives) or wholegrain flours.
I try to replace more and more oils in my kitchen and with this vegan cream spinach you get a healthy, oil-free and sugar-free recipe.
What do you use to get your dishes creamy?
It is:
- creamy
- flavorful
- prepared quickly
- wholesome
Ingredients
Here is a brief overview of exactly which ingredients are contained in this vegan creamed spinach.
The exact amount can be found below in the recipe card.
Spinach leaves
Cashews
Vegetable broth
Clove of garlic
Onion
Nutmeg
Nutritional Yeast
Sea-salt
Cashew Substitute
If you don't want to use cashews, you can also use a sunflower seed cream.
You can also fall back on purchased vegan cream.
Please note that this does not thicken when boiling like the cashew cream and you therefore have to adjust the ratio of vegetable broth to cream.
Instruction
Finely chop the onion and the garlic and braise in a little water and add the spinach.
Reduce the heat and let the spinach decay. If desired, finely chop the spinach or leave it as leaf spinach.
I roughly chop ours because my kids like it that way.
In the meantime, soak the cashews in hot water for 10 min and rinse off.
Puree the cashews with the vegetable stock in a blender. Until a creamy consistency is created.
Now add the cashew cream to the spinach and season with the remaining ingredients. Let it boil, the cream is now thickening.
We like to eat mashed potatoes and fried mushrooms with chickpeas.
Storage
It is controversial whether heated spinach should be reheated. We do it. It's up to you what you want to do.
In the refrigerator, the creamed spinach is stored in a closed container for about 3 days.
More vegan Recipes:
potato dumplings with a mushroom cream sauce
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Vegan Cream Spinach
Do you love everything creamy? Here you will find a vegan cream spinach, which not only children and Popeye love. The creamed spinach is wonderful tangy and ideal as a side dish for your dinner or lunch. Prepare with fresh spinach or frozen spinach. With the help of cashew cream it will be super creamy. plant-based | Vegetarian | oil-free | sugar-free | soy-free | gluten-free
Ingredients
- 14 oz (400 g) fresh or frozen spinach
- ¼ cup (40 g) cashews raw, soaked
- 1 cup (250 ml) vegetable broth
- 1 clove of garlic, chopped
- ¼ onion, chopped
- some nutmeg freshly ground to taste
- 1 tbsp. nutritional yeast flakes (opt.)
- ½ tsp sea salt (opt)
Instructions
- Finely chop the onion and garlic and sauté in a little water and add the spinach. On Medium Heat until the spinach is collapse. If desired, finely chop the spinach or leave as leaf spinach before you cook it. I cut it rough, as my kids like it that way.
- Meanwhile, soak the cashews in hot water for 10 min and rinse. Puree the cashews with the vegetable stock in a high speed blender. Until a creamy consistency is achieved.
- Now add the cashew cream to the spinach and season with the rest of the ingredients. Let it boil, the cashew cream will thicken.
- We like to eat mashed potatoes, and fried mushrooms with chickpeas with the spinach
Melissa says
Hi there! My family and I are about a year to being dairy & egg free but I’d love to make some thanksgiving favorites. Rather than cashew, can I substitute slivered almonds to blend with the veg broth? What would be the measurement of slivered almonds?
Jasmin says
Hi Melissa, use less water or broth to blend the almonds. You can always add some more broth later. Usually the almonds don't get as creamy as cashews. That is why I recommend to use less liquid, so your cream is thicker.