Sultry Spinach Soup? Why POPEYE would be proud! And so will your EYE-DOCTOR! As well as your MOM! Since not much on this planet is healthier to eat, then SPINACH…
Shopping List
Duck: 4-5 lb. duck
Beef Broth: 1 box
Spinach: 3 cups baby chopped
Carrots: ½ cup matchstick
Turnip: 1 medium diced
Leek: 1 small washed white sliced/green chopped
Garlic: 3 cloves crushed
Cherries: 1 cup dried
Bay Leaf: 2
Thyme: 2 sprigs
Flour: 1 T
Half/Half: 1 cup
Long Grain Wild Rice: 1 box
Chives: ½ cup chopped
Cilantro: 3 T fresh minced
Preparation
Prepare duck by either roasting it whole or quarter according to directions. Reserve ¼ cup of drippings for soup. When cool quarter duck if you haven’t already.
In a pot/Dutch oven arrange duck pieces skin side down. Add fresh cilantro, leek greens and ¼ cup beef broth. Cook covered on medium low for about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and place duck on a plate to cool. Scrape bottom of pan with red wine to unleash the tasty remains. Add garlic and ¾ of chives to pot and return to heat over low for 5 minutes or until fragrant.
Remove duck meat from bones and add to pot along with spinach carrots, onion, turnip, broth, pepper, thyme, bay leaf, cherries, and heat slowly on low covered about 15 minutes.
Sprinkle with flour. Continue cooking for 45 minutes or until all is tender. Then remove 1 cup of the liquid and mix with cream and stir into soup.
Meanwhile prepare rice according to directions and add leek whites to cooking process.
Add rice to bowls and ladle in the soup. Garnish with chives.
Sultry Notes
Popeye the Sailor is not the only person who can benefit from spinach. We all can. because 4 cups are only 20 calories. and those cups are packing an enormous punch of A, C, Calcium, Folic Acid, and Iron. Of course, spinach still REMAINS renowned for its benefits to support brain and cardio health as well.
So, NATURALLY around the time of popeye spinach beat out both turkey and ice cream as america’s favorite food.
Yet, in a few rare skits Popeye ate no spinach at all. Instead he ate…KALE.
However, olive Oil ate spinach only once. Since she found added strength to kick some # on a SULTRY gal flirting with her man.
But before all that Catherine de Medici was busy introducing spinach to her French court…She also was MAking HER MOther PROUD. As she began the claim that any dish containing spinach should also contain the word—Florentine—AND THAT WAS one CLASSY BABE!
and the last little known fact of this super green, it was once Native to Persia—or modern day Iran—And the nick-name of spinach in china: The Persian Green.