Mashed potatoes with spinach – a perfect side dish for fish, chicken or just a poached egg.
An extra recipe this week. I was actually done with the spinach series, but this Spinach Potato Mash recipe is so good, I could not keep it only for myself.
I’ve only made this because I had some leftover baby spinach from the Spinach Feta Pie – Börek from yesterday and I didn’t feel like making only salad with it. So I thought about this mash. I had seen the recipe in a Romanian magazine, but could not remember in which one. But it wasn’t difficult to make it spontaneously and without a recipe, I mean at the end of the day we are talking about mashed potatoes here. I don’t think anybody really needs another recipe for mashed potatoes, after we all make mashed potatoes and everyone has its own way with it. But I find that mixing the potatoes with the spinach is worth mentioning, I had never tried that before and I was so impressed by the result.
Not to mention this is great way to get your children to eat spinach without complaining one bit. Mine are really more into spinach now after we had so much spinach dishes lately, but still they found that combining potatoes with spinach was a particularly good idea. If it wasn’t for that darn fish!!! 🙂 Yes, fish is another issue in our house… my husband and I love it dearly, but both Bruno and Perla don’t. Perla used to as a toddler, but as soon she was old enough to understand that Bruno doesn’t like fish, she stopped eating it as well. Same with mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower… and so on.
Otherwise, I hope you are having a great weekend and a relaxing 1st of May.
Spinach Potato Mash
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Ingredients
- For the mash potatoes:
- 600 g/ 21 oz potatoes
- 150 g/ 5.3 oz baby spinach
- 100 ml/ 3.4 oz/ scant ½ cup hot milk (or more if necessary)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- some nutmeg
- salt and pepper
- For the fish:
- 4 filets redfish or other fish of choice (for instance pollack, pangasius), about 125 – 150 g/ 4.4 – 5.3 oz each
- 1-2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- lemon to serve
Instructions
Peel and chop the potatoes. Cook in salted water. 5 minutes before they are done add the spinach and continue cooking until the potatoes are soft and the spinach wilted and cooked. Drain.
Mash the potatoes and the spinach adding the hot milk and the butter. Add more milk if necessary to get your preferred consistency. Adjust the taste with nutmeg, salt and pepper.
For the fish: melt the butter in a cast iron pan. Sprinkle the fish filets with salt and pepper and drag them through the flour. Pat the fish to remove the excess flour and fry in the hot pan for about 2 minutes per side.
Serve the fish immediately with lemon, the spinach potato mash and salad or other vegetables of choice.
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6 comments
This looks like great comfort food. Perfect for eating on a cold rainy weekend for lunch. It just may warm me up!
Healthy comforting food! The fish fillets are perfectly pan seared, Adina.
What a fantastic dish…unusual yet totally makes sense and sounds delicious. I love incorporating more fish into our diet and I’m always reminding myself. The pop of green looks so good against the fish.
This is a really healthy rendition of mashed potatoes. I can just eat this by itself with a nice piece of bread.
Always awesome to find ways to incorporate more leafy greens into your diet! That fish looks so flaky and delicious!
Such a clever idea! I would never think about it, but I love it!