Spinach Loaf Spread with Creamy Ricotta

Spinach Loaf Spread with Creamy Ricotta

Spinach Loaf Spread with Creamy Ricotta

By: Lee Holmes

Spread this bread with creamy ricotta and it really is a dream come true for breakfast, lunch or tea!


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Ingredients

  • 2½ cups almond flour
  • ¼ tsp Celtic sea salt
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
  • 2 bunches English spinach, blanched & drained
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 3 tbsp coconut milk
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • ¼ cup melted unsalted butter
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • Dollop ricotta, to serve

Method


  • Preheat oven to 175°C and grease and flour 20cm × 9cm loaf (bar) tin.
  • In large bowl, combine almond flour, salt, baking powder and bicarb soda.
  • Whizz spinach in processor (or chop finely) and add to bowl, along with eggs, coconut milk, lemon juice, butter and apple cider vinegar. Mix thoroughly.
  • Spoon mixture into prepared tin and level surface with back of spoon dipped in cold water.
  • Bake loaf on middle rack of oven for about 45 mins or until skewer comes out clean.
  • Turn out onto wire rack to cool, then enjoy with dollop of ricotta.
  • The bread will keep for up to 1 week in a sealed container in the fridge, or can be frozen for up to 1 month.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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