5-Minute Sauteed Lemon Garlic Spinach Recipe – Healthy, amazingly easy, and super tasty! This 5-minute Sauteed Spinach with Garlic and Lemon is a simple and delicious side dish everyone will love at your table. The sauteed spinach works great as a side for chicken and steak dishes and is low-carb, gluten-free, and keto-friendly. This easy 5-minute side dish is packed with garlicky flavor and light on fat. Enjoy!
Ingredients list for the sauteed lemon garlic spinach
- 6 cups fresh spinach
- 1 tablespoon (60ml) olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon chili flakes
- Salt and fresh cracked black pepper
Directions
1. To make this lemon garlic spinach recipe: Heat a skillet with a little olive oil. Add the minced garlic and cook until fragrant.
2. Add spinach and season with salt, pepper, red chili pepper flakes (if using), and lemon juice and saute spinach for 2-3 minutes over medium-low, until wilted. Adjust seasoning if needed. Add a sprinkle of parmesan if you like (optional).
3. Serve the sauteed lemon garlic spinach immediately off the pan, or transfer to a serving plate. You can add an extra splash of lemon juice and sprinkle some grated parmesan (optional) over the spinach before serving. Enjoy!
Tips for the sauteed spinach recipe
- If you’re extra hungry, double the batch of spinach as it shrinks a lot when it wilts!
- Do not overcook the spinach! Once it wilts, toss it around with all the ingredients and serve immediately.
How and how long to keep the spinach leftovers?
We don’t advise you to keep the sauteed spinach leftovers for more than one day because they’ll get mushy as soon as you reheat them.
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How did it turn out?
We are following a very strict diet and this fit in perfectly! I quadrupled the recipe and put it on top of baked spaghetti squash and topped it with no harm parm. It was delicious! Thank you so much!!!!
