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These Spinach Cakes Will Make You Forget You’re Eating Your Vegetables

This article is written by a student writer from the Spoon University at JWU Providence chapter.

Ever look in the fridge and realize you basically have nothing to eat? This is an amazing spinach cake recipe I grew up with, and never really appreciated until I got to college, and realized this is one of the easiest, cheapest, and quickest snacks to make when your fridge is approaching its bare bones.

Spinach Cakes

Difficulty:BeginnerPrep time: 5 minutesCook time: 8 minutesTotal time: 13 minutesServings:6 servings

Ingredients

Instructions

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    Once your spinach is cooked and strained of water you will add in the rest of the ingredients; cheese, breadcrumbs, and egg.

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    Next you will take a fork and mix everything together.

    If you find your spinach was too damp you could always add more breadcrumbs to soak up some of the water.

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    Next comes rolling. You’ll take your mixture and roll it into a ball, just as if you were making meatball.

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    Once you have your spinach balls you’ll grab a decent sized pan, add EVOO, put the burner on medium to high heat and place them on the pan.

    Once you give them a second to sizzle, you’ll take a spatula and press down on the ball to make it into a flat cake.

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    You’ll leave them on each side for about 3 to 4 minutes until they get golden brown.

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    Lastly, you’ll take them off the heat and onto a plate with paper towel underneath to absorb some of the grease.

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    Last step is to dig in!

Jacqueline Paez

JWU Providence '17

Jacqueline is the social media manager for spoon at Johnson & Wales University. She is a hardcore brunch enthusiast and has no shame in taking food pics anywhere at anytime. Beware not to call her Jackie or cancel food adventures on her, those are very serious offenses in her book. Whenever she is not sleeping, eating, or working she is most likely brainstorming future tattoo ideas.