The Best Spinach Gratin Recipe Ever - Everyday Dishes (2024)

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by Cheryl Najafi on Aug 17, 2015 14 comments »

Our spinach gratin recipe is how spinach was meant to be consumed—with lots of cheese! We perfected this recipe so it’s not ‘soupy’ like au gratin dishes you may have tasted in the past. In fact, we added just enough sauce to bind and flavor the spinach and used a nice, high-quality Monterey Jack or Gruyere cheese.

Don’t be fooled by the cheese, however, because our recipe contains nearly three pounds of leafy greens, making it a dense and hearty side dish. Sometimes our recipes are picked through but not totally consumed—but this time, there wasn’t a sliver of spinach or even a singlet of melted cheese left stuck to the pan. It’s that good.

Our spinach gratin is perfect for every day dinners, a welcome holiday side dish and perfect for company. It’s a recipe that pairs well with just about anything, and while it’s listed under ‘sides,’ we’d be more than happy to eat this as a main course!

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Spinach Gratin Recipe Tips:

• Be sure to squeeze as much liquid as possible from the frozen spinach—the successful outcome of the dish depends on removing as much water as possible! A cheesecloth makes this super easy (paper towels can tend to disintegrate with all the extra moisture.)
  
• You can also use fresh spinach in this recipe, but you’ll need quite a bit. You’ll want to substitute 1 – 1.5lbs of fresh spinach for every 10oz bag of frozen – so 5 – 7lbs of fresh spinach for this recipe. Cook it down in a pan and then add it in at the same spot as the frozen spinach in the recipe.
  
• Not a fan of the cheeses we use? Swap in the melty ones that you prefer.

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originally published on Aug 17, 2015 (last updated Oct 26, 2023)

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