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Épinards à l’Anglaise
Created by Chef Juliette
Épinards à l’Anglaise proves how much discipline can live in a plain green vegetable: shred carefully, boil quickly, drain fiercely, and carry it straight to the table.
Épinards à l’Anglaise (spinach cooked in the English manner) teaches one true thing: draining is part of the cooking. The leaves should reach the table tender, vivid, and free of standing water. Leave them wet and their clean mineral flavor disappears into a puddle.
The entry assumed a vegetable station with a broad kettle already boiling, a cook to prepare a great basket of leaves, and a warmed timbale waiting for service. Your honest equivalent is an eight-quart pot, a large colander, and a serving bowl warmed with hot water. Brigade quantities and prolonged holding are scaffolding, so they go. Careful shredding, abundant salted water, hard draining, and service without cooling are the dish, so they stay. One cook, one stove, one evening.
There is no butter, no cream, and no sauce to hide behind. The salted water seasons the spinach, while fast cooking preserves its color and character. The step that matters most comes after the pot: drain fiercely, never rinse, and serve before the leaves lose their heat.
Ingredients
mature spinach leaves
Quantity
About 22 loosely packed cups (5.2 L / 680 g)
washed, coarse stems removed, and carefully shredded into broad ribbons
water
Quantity
4 quarts (3.8 L / 3.8 kg)
fine sea salt
Quantity
1½ tablespoons (22 ml / 27 g)
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| mature spinach leaveswashed, coarse stems removed, and carefully shredded into broad ribbons | About 22 loosely packed cups (5.2 L / 680 g) |
| water | 4 quarts (3.8 L / 3.8 kg) |
| fine sea salt | 1½ tablespoons (22 ml / 27 g) |
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