spinach balls

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disclaimer...call for cheese...apologies to list if this offends

anyone. i've never made it with soy cheese, but suppose it could happen...

 

1 lb. thawed frozen chopped spinach

5 eggs (i use 4 and one egg white)

1 large onion, minced (used my tiny cuisinart which minced smaller

than i could by hand

10 TBS. margarine (not too sure about that yellow stick stuff, so used

unsalted butter...probably not as healthy, but if i'm going to go,

it's going to be with a smile on my lips)

1 cup shredded parmesan (romano works also and probably the grated in

the jar would be fine)

2 garlic cloves, minced (big ones)

1/2 tsp. thyme (about spices...i'm a big rosemary fan so i used that

also and more of each)

1/2 tsp. cayenne

1 3/4 cups italian bread crumbs (i've made it with my own crumbs with

with packaged...

salt (because of the unsalted butter)

pepper (i make virtually nothing without coarse ground pepper.

 

preheat oven to 350 degrees F

remove excess moisture from spinach. add remaining ingredients and mix

well by hand. form the mixture into balls either by hand or with small

ice cream scoop. I use a melon baller (inherited from mom years

ago...makes the balls smaller, more 'pop in your mouth' eating. place

the balls closely together on a baking sheet. you can almost fit them

all on one sheet.

 

cook in the top half of the oven until firm to touch about 20-25

minutes. i sort of shook them a bit about half way through. no didn't

move each one individually. that is over and above call. let cool 5

minutes then serve.

 

the recipe had this footnote: wearing latex gloves while mixing and

forming the balls is suggested. never done that, sort of loses the

magic for me.

 

they are kinda sticky but manageable when balling; i also minced and

added two hot chilies for that zing.

 

and i served them cold. since i had a bowl of tamari for the sesame

balls, people dipped the spinach balls.

 

leftovers were baggied and thrown into freezer. when i need an

appetizer for friends, i take them out and nuke them for a minute or two.

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On 9/7/07, katework1 <katework1 wrote:

>

> disclaimer...call for cheese...apologies to list if this offends

> anyone. i've never made it with soy cheese, but suppose it could happen...

 

This list is vegetarian which means some are vegan, some eat eggs,

some eat dairy, etc. No apologies necessary.

 

I have experience with converting recipes that have dairy/egg to

vegan, so I am always looking for all kinds of vegetarian recipes

because some of them I can convert to vegan (and it's fun to

experiment with the conversions!) Sometimes I have recipes that are

vegan and can be LO vegetarian (lacto-ovo vegetarian) and I note the

LO changes as variations at the end.

 

thanks for the recipe! I can tell I'm going to have a lot of fun

playing with this one! (And I LOVE spinach. :-)

 

Sparrow