Spinach Stew with Meat
⏱️ Prep: 30 min🍳 Cook: 90 min
Ingredients
| 1 кг | meat (1 kg lamb, but pork or veal also work) |
| 1 кг | spinach |
| — | onion (2-3 bunches spring onion or 2 heads dry onion) |
| — | garlic (1-2 bunches fresh or 5 cloves old) |
| — | spearmint (1 tbsp dried or fresh sprigs) |
| 2 с.л. | tomato paste |
| 1 с.л. | red paprika |
| на вкус | salt |
| 100 мл | fat (oil or olive oil) |
| 1-2 с.л. | starch for thickening |
Instructions
Chop the meat into pieces and bring it to a boil together with about 1.5 L of water. Then strain the broth and rinse the meat. Return them together to the pot on the stove and leave to simmer until the meat is tender.
Separately, sauté the finely chopped onion and garlic in the heated fat, then add the red paprika and tomato paste. Pour in about 900 ml of the meat broth.
Once it comes to a boil, add the cleaned and cut spinach as well as the meat. Leave to simmer for 15 minutes, then add the spearmint and salt to taste.
Dissolve the starch in a little cold water and thicken the spinach stew with meat. Remove from the stove as soon as it bubbles up.