Spinach and cheese sandwich recipe with step by step photos. Quick and easy to make delicious spinach sandwich recipe with white sauce and cheese. This spinach sandwich will be an excellent addition to toddlers and kids tiffin/snack list, comes together very quickly, no fancy ingredients, filling and healthy (it does contain white flour but very small amount compared to the serving, you can replace with wheat flour if you should).
To make spinach and cheese sandwich recipe, use tender and fresh spinach leaves, they are not very fibrous and compliments well with white sauce. Blanching the spinach leaves with some sugar retains the color and helps in quick cooking. You can add more vegetables like boiled corn kernels, green bell peppers in this spinach sandwich recipe or make a simple spinach and cheese sandwich recipe just like I did. Though adding cheese will make this spinach and cheese sandwich recipe more rich and creamy, cheese is purely optional ingredient in this spinach sandwich recipe. You can absolutely make spinach sandwich recipe without cheese. One important trick that adds more flavor and taste to the white sauce in this spinach and cheese sandwich recipe is browning the butter. Once you add butter in the hot pan, allow it to brown a bit before adding the flour. This elevates the flavor and taste of the sauce, take care not to burn the butter.
I made grilled spinach and cheese sandwich using my stove top grill pan. I just love this stove top grill pan, it comes so handy, it heats up quickly and sandwich gets grilled to perfection. You can however toast or grill in oven or toast on a tava too.
Serve spinach and cheese recipe on its own with tea or coffee, when serving for toddlers and kids you can serve spinach and cheese sandwich with milkshake or milk, filling and healthy breakfast/snack.
Here is how to make spinach and cheese sandwich recipe, do try this and tell me how it turned out for you!
Spinach and cheese sandwich recipe with step by step photos.
1. Let us begin spinach and cheese sandwich by blanching the spinach. Bring a pot full of water to rolling boil. Add thoroughly washed spinach leaves along with 1/2 teaspoon sugar. Boil for about 5-7 minutes, drain and pat dry gently. Chop the spinach leaves finely and set aside.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a pan. Allow it brown a bit. Add 1 teaspoon maida/flour and roast well.
3. Add 3/4 cup milk and stir well in low flame. Make sure the flour does not form lumps. You can do this by switching the flame off too to avoid lump formation.
4. Allow the sauce to thicken, cook in low flame for -8 minutes.
5. Add chopped spinach leaves and mix well. Add salt, pepper powder and chili flakes.
6. Switch off the flame, add grated cheese and mix well. The filling for spinach and cheese sandwich is ready. Divide into 3 equal portions.
7. Take 6 sandwich bread slices. Apply butter on 3 slices. Place the prepared filling in buttered slices and close with the remaining slices.
8. Heat a rill pan or tava. Place a prepared sandwich and toast/grill from both sides until the sandwich turns as crispy as desired. You can use butter for toasting.
9. Grill the remaining 2 sandwich in the same way. Serve spinach and cheese sandwich hot.
spinach and cheese sandwich recipe card below:
Spinach and cheese sandwich recipe |Spinach sandwich recipe
1 CUP = 250 ml
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups tightly packed spinach leaves
- 2 tablespoons butter + more for toasting the sandwich
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon maida/ plain flour
- Pepper powder salt and chili flakes to taste
- 1/2 cup grated cheese
- 6 bread slices
Instructions
- Let us begin spinach and cheese sandwich by blanching the spinach. Bring a pot full of water to rolling boil. Add thoroughly washed spinach leaves along with 1/2 teaspoon sugar. Boil for about 5-7 minutes, drain and pat dry gently. Chop the spinach leaves finely and set aside.
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a pan. Allow it brown a bit. Add 1 teaspoon maida/flour and roast well.
- Add 3/4 cup milk and stir well in low flame. Make sure the flour does not form lumps. You can do this by switching the flame off too to avoid lump formation.
- Allow the sauce to thicken, cook in low flame for -8 minutes.
- Add chopped spinach leaves and mix well. Add salt, pepper powder and chili flakes.
- Switch off the flame, add grated cheese and mix well. The filling for spinach and cheese sandwich is ready. Divide into 3 equal portions.
- Take 6 sandwich bread slices. Apply butter on 3 slices. Place the prepared filling in buttered slices and close with the remaining slices.
- Heat a rill pan or tava. Place a prepared sandwich and toast/grill from both sides until the sandwich turns as crispy as desired. You can use butter for toasting.
- Grill the remaining 2 sandwich in the same way. Serve spinach and cheese sandwich hot.
Notes
2. You can avoid cheese in the filling
Nutrition
Aarthi says
This is one healthy and yummy sandwich. Tempted by your clicks.