Steamed Spinach With Hazelnut And Fennel Dressing

Name: Thermomix recipe: Steamed Spinach With Hazelnut And Fennel Dressing
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 Teaspoon fennel seeds; 2 cloves of garlic; 1 Teaspoon dijon mustard; 1 orange, juice only; Pinches pink salt flakes; 70 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO); 70 Grams hazelnuts, roasted and skinned; 400 Grams baby spinach leaves, plus some more; 1 Litre water

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Serves 2 Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes Rated: Print

A wonderful way to serve boring old spinach. Celebratory! Appears in best selling thermomix cookbook, For Foods Sake.

Well kids…as For Foods Sake is totally sold out and not appearing on shelves near you any time soon, I thought I would put out this teaser to keep you keen…Late August is the official date for its arrival, so stay salivating until then will you?? This is just a little side dish, delish and easy. You can really load up as much spinach into it as you can manage to fit in and wilt down, because wilt down it does. Enjoy…and don’t say I never give you anything…really!

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Need

1 Teaspoon fennel seeds
2 cloves of garlic
1 Teaspoon dijon mustard
1 orange, juice only
Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
70 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
70 Grams hazelnuts, roasted and skinned
400 Grams baby spinach leaves, plus some more
1 Litre water

Do

1: Place fennel seeds into a dry frying pan and toast on a medium high heat until hot and fragrant.
2: Place toasted seeds into the Thermomix bowl. Add garlic, mustard, orange juice, salt and EVOO and blend 10 sec/speed 6.
3: Add hazelnuts and blend 3 sec/speed 5. Remove from bowl and set aside.
4: Place ½ the spinach into Varoma dish. Pour water into Thermomix bowl and set Varoma into position. Cook 5 min/Varoma/speed 4. Add remaining spinach and cook 5 min/Varoma/speed 4. Stir through any extra spinach that will now fit in the Varoma dish and allow it to wilt with residual heat.

Toss dressing through and serve warm. Garnish with a few additional chopped hazelnuts.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!