One-Pan Creamed Spinach With Eggs  Recipe (2024)

If you don't want the extra calories and really enjoy spinach, please know that this preparation tastes very good using just the spinach. I make it all the time using straight from the freezer chopped spinach into an oiled frying pan. When the spinach is thawed and cooked, I add one or two eggs. It's a great, quick and tasty meal for one person. Such recipes are easily adaptable.Have fun and enjoy.

A touch of nutmeg with sauteed onions or garlic clove. I think fresh spinach would be good as well, just cover to steam down. Lovely dish to make with your own touches!

Subbed in plain Greek yogurt for the cream cheese.

Rich and fantastic. Not me, but the dish. Made with cream cheese and goat cheese. This is a recipe with which you can have fun experimenting. (Note: No prepositions were harmed or dangled in the previous sentence.). If you want your yolks to be runny, start checking them EARLY. And remember that even when you take the pan off the burner, the yolks will firm up a bit when you tend to the bread/toast you forgot about until the last minute.

Don't like the look of whole egg yolks. I wonder if you could beat them a bit and pour them into divots. Also, I'd use lite cream cheese. I also might sauté some onion and mushrooms first.

My Armenian grandmother would make something very similar to this only using purslane (per-per in Armenian). It’s delicious!

Sure it’s a calorie bomb but if one is following a low carb diet, this would be good. Fat makes and keeps one full and satisfied. If you replace with light cream cheese, you add more carb calories that do not satisfy. Of course you can’t eat it with bread if following a low carb diet. If lost about 25 pounds eating this way and I don’t have any of the hunger, cravings and headaches I experienced with low calorie/low fat diets. Low fat products is what made the population grow fatter back.

I used to go to a diner that served something very much like this, the artichoke hearts also nestled in the spinach. I’ll try to repeat that.

I'm wondering about making this with soft goat cheese. Thoughts?

I love this! Add onions if you’d like, finish off with hot sauce. Yum.

This was delicious, super easy, most ingredients you already have on hand. I made it for dinner last night and my teen requested it again for tonight. One item I changed, when I made in the second time. I used half the cream cheese and I thought it tasted better with less cream cheese. Can’t go wrong either way. This will be on my dinner rotation and I will make it when my daughter comesHome from college. LOVED IT.

Every morning I sauté spinach and onions in olive oil and drop two fried eggs in at the end. Tomorrow I shall put in the cream cheese and garlic to add decadence to my day!

Serve with a dry martini with an olive. Divine!

Totally delicious. I halved the recipe, and added onion and chopped grape tomatoes I wanted to use up. It was absolutely speedy and tasty, on the table from start to finish in 15 minutes

Delicious! Sautéed fresh spinach in 10 " cast iron pan without lid for a few minutes to give up liquid, then proceeded with rest of recipe minus salt. Whole dish took about 15 minutes. My husband couldn't stop raving about the dish!

Delicious, easy, fast, and cheap! Filling, too, since it's so rich. We're big fans!

I just wanted the creamed spinach, so I skipped the eggs but otherwise cooked it exactly as it was written. Even my picky husband loved it. It also makes a great hot dip!

@Persimmon: The yolk is where all the vitamins are, including quite a lot of the neurologically beneficial B6.

I left out the cream cheese and it was fine

Easy, fast, budget-friendly. Tons of flavor (I added extra seasoning). Loved it!

You can also replace (or mix) spinash by sorrel. Also the eggs by mackerel fillets.

In my family we have traditionally been preparing creamy spinach with milk, roux and garlic, and serving with eggs and mashed potatoes on the side.I'm very curious about the cream cheese version so giving this a try for sure.

This is a fancier take on my mother’s 1960s Thursday-is-dairy night meal. She used Seabrook frozen craned spinach served with hard-boiled eggs. Want to keep the kids amused? Slice the eggs in half, mash the yolks into your potion of spinach, and pile back into the empty egg white. Develops motor skills and logistical thinking. And it’s delicious!

I made two at once this morning, baked one, realized it totally filled me up, and so I put the other in the fridge with saran wrap, for tomorrow. Seems as if one might make MORE at a time (4?, 6?) and use them over several days? Thoughts? (I added some Costco bacon bits on top, too, brilliant!)

Whoops - that last note was about a ramekin version of this: single servings, and then baked in the oven! Sorry...

Have now made this a couple of times with the addition of onion, tomatoes, and mushrooms. I sub plain Greek yogurt or skyr for 1/2 the cream cheese and top with chili crunch. Fantastic, and comes together in less than 30 minutes even with frozen spinach.

In Germany you would eat this dish with potatoes instead of bread.

Good, creamy, preferably sheep milk feta is fantastic in this (I am Bulgarian, we know feta...so trust me on this one! ;-) Substitute for the cream cheese 1:1. It is also a slight improvement (calorie-wise) over the cream cheese (95 vs 75 calories per oz) -- for this advantage though, you should use cow feta; the sheep one is fattier.

This was so quick and SO GOOD! I followed others' suggestions and sautéed some chopped onions in the pan before adding the spinach and used only about 1/2 the cream cheese. Plus I added an extra egg. Spouse and I both loved it. Will definitely be making again -- soon!

I sauteed some onions and garlic before adding the spinach and sprinkled some paprika after adding the eggs.