Boston Market Creamed Spinach is a wonderfully creamy and savory dish. You might even win over a few people to spinach and it will become a family favorite.
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What Makes Boston Market Creamed Spinach So Good?
This mouthwatering creamed spinach will remind you so much of the Boston Market side dish that you know and love. Making it from scratch doesn’t get any easier than this.
With a velvety homemade white sauce and buttery undertones, it doesn’t even feel like you’re eating vegetables because it is so indulgent. The diced onions also add a simple but nice touch and provide a contrasting texture.
Why You Should Try This Recipe for Creamed Spinach
With this recipe, you can create irresistible creamed spinach from frozen spinach. That’s right, you don’t need to deal with washing and chopping the fresh stuff. Frozen spinach makes it so easy since it’s already pre-washed and cut into small pieces.
Additionally, you likely already have all of these items in your refrigerator or pantry since they are staple ingredients for cooking. Nevertheless, if you happen to be out of ingredients like sour cream or flour, there are easy swaps you can make that don’t affect the outcome of the dish!
Lastly, you can have this creamed spinach on the table in under a half-hour, making it a perfect side dish for busy weeknights.
Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make creamed spinach:
- Frozen chopped spinach
- All-purpose flour
- Salt
- Onion
- Butter
- Whole Milk
- Sour Cream
How to Make Boston Market Creamed Spinach
These are the simple steps for making this copycat recipe:
- Drain the spinach and squeeze out the excess liquid.
- Melt butter in a small-sized saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add flour and 1/4 teaspoon of salt and stir until combined together.
- Add milk a little at a time and constantly stir with a whisk until the mixture becomes thick and smooth.
- Melt butter in a separate medium-sized saucepan on medium heat.
- Add onions and cook until the onions are transparent.
- Place spinach in the pan and add water. Lower the heat and place the lid on the pan.
- Stir several times until the spinach is almost completely cooked then add salt.
- When the spinach is almost done, add white sauce and sour cream. Stir well and simmer until completely blended.
Recipe Variations
Thanks to all my readers who sent in ideas:
- For gluten-free creamed spinach, substitute the flour for about half the amount of cornstarch (mix together 1 tablespoon of cornstarch to 3 tablespoons of cold water).
- If you have someone who is lactose intolerant, you can use soy milk instead of regular whole milk.
- Make a low-fat version using low-fat yogurt and low-fat milk.
- To sneak in some extra veggies, add some finely chopped carrots and celery.
- You can add some chopped fresh garlic if you desire.
- Add some grated parmesan cheese to give it cheesy touch.
- Add a little cream cheese to make it even more creamy and luscious.
- If you don’t have any sour cream on hand, you can use 1/4 cup Greek yogurt and 1/4 cup cream cheese.
What to Serve Creamed Spinach with
Creamed spinach is perfect for enjoying with classic comfort foods – think proteins like baked lemon pepper chicken, pork chops, or smoked steak. It also tastes great with fish.
As far as other sides go, couple it with other vegetables, such as roasted potatoes or sauteed carrots. And if you serve garlic bread or dinner rolls with the meal, you can top them with some creamed spinach for a savory treat.
How to Store Leftover Creamed Spinach
Once the creamed spinach cools down, you can transfer any leftovers to an airtight container! Keep it in the refrigerator and enjoy it within 3-4 days for the best quality. In fact, I think it tastes even better the next day because all the flavors marry overnight.
Unfortunately, this dish changes the texture slightly when frozen and reheated due to the dairy content. However, if this doesn’t bother you, it can be kept frozen for up to three months and thawed overnight in the fridge before reheating.
What is the Best Way to Reheat Creamed Spinach?
There are two ways I recommend reheating this dish. First, you can take the quick route and reheat it in the microwave. With this method, I suggest dampening a paper towel and placing it over the bowl or container while you warm it up. This way, it prevents the creamed spinach from drying out.
You can also heat it on medium-low on the stovetop. Cover it with a lid to retain moisture, and occasionally stir it until thoroughly heated.
About Boston Market
Boston Market set out to create awesome rotisserie meals. In fact, Boston Market began with just three items – fire, a spit, and chicken. These days, you can swing by Boston Market for a complete homemade-style family meal or a little extra something to complete your home dining. As they say, at Boston Market, dinner is always ready. They serve real food made by hand.
Can’t get enough of Boston Market? Try these recipes
- Sweet Potato Casserole
- Boston Market Mac & Cheese
- Dill Potato Wedges
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- Meatloaf with Diced Tomatoes
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- Red Potatoes Recipe
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- Corn Meal Mush
- Boiled Carrots
- Broccoli Rice Casserole
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- Greek Style Potatoes
There’s more! Take a look at my easy homemade side dishes and the best fast food copycat recipes.
Boston Market Creamed Spinach
Ingredients
- 20 ounces spinach chopped, frozen, drained
- 1/2 cup Sour Cream
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 tablespoon Butter
- 2 tablespoon chopped onion
- 1/4 cup Water
White Sauce
- 3 tablespoon Butter
- 4 tablespoon Flour
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Whole Milk
Instructions
- Prepare the white sauce using a medium-low setting melt butter in a saucepan add flour and 1/4 teaspoon of salt until creamed together. Add milk a little at a time on medium heat. Constantly stir with a whisk until mixture becomes thick and smooth. Place butter in a 2-quart saucepan on medium heat, add onions.
- Cook until the onions are transparent. Place spinach and add water to pan, lower the heat and place lid on pan. Stir several times until the spinach is almost completely cooked. Add 1 teaspoon of salt. When spinach is almost done add white sauce and sour cream, stir well and simmer until completely blended.
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Notes
- Want to make this creamed spinach extra creamy? Add two or three tablespoons of cream cheese to the sauce!
- You can use a couple of paper towels to help you squeeze out some of the excess water in the frozen spinach.
- To make this extra savory, consider adding a tablespoon or two of blue cheese into the sauce!
Jill Sable
Just found this recipe and I can’t wait to make it. I use a potato ricer to squeeze juice out of thawed spinach. For this recipe I would probably try keeping some of the spinach juice for added flavor.
Melissa Wheeler
When using cornstarch do I prepare the white sauce the same? I have read that cornstarch does not mix well with butter. I have only used cornstarch in other recipes after mixing the cornstarch with water first. Please let me know ASAP, I am planning on making this today!
Thanks
Stephanie
So glad I happen to be online right now! Because you need an answer ASAP 😉 I would add the cornstarch to water, just like you normally would. I’ll modify this in the notes.
Please reach out if you need anything else, via my contact page, this way you are connected to me via email.
Sandy Melmed
I want to know if you can make this recipe and freeze it
Stephanie
Yes, you should be able to freeze this in an airtight container for a few months before using.
Judy Lee
Why are we carefully squeezing all the water out of the spinach and then adding water back in to it?
Ned
It’s difficult to determine how much water will inherently be in the spinach, so all must be removed first and just 1/4 cup returned to give the right amount to give the dish the proper consistency. Good question!
Debra L. Caraballo
I will definitely be trying this soon! This is my favorite side from Boston Market.
Thanks Stephanie!
Gloria Poole
Do you not bake in the oven? How long
Stephanie
It is not necessary to bake this in the oven.
Angela Quinn
What would be the best alternative to the flour? I want to make this for Christmas ,but we have someone that requires a gluten free diet. Thank you
Stephanie
I think you could use about half of the amount of cornstarch and it should work ok.
Laura Bullinger
Yes I make all cream sauces with cornstarch.
Andreanna D Knorst
This recipe is amazing! This is probably my favorite go-to side dish recipe. I have made this at least 100 times. I also add a little cream cheese to mine which makes it super creamy and luscious. Thanks for all your copycat recipes❤️
Andreanna D Knorst
Side note….make sure to really squeeze the water out of the spinach. I use a clean kitchen towel. Just place the thawed spinach on the towel, wrap it up and squeeze squeeze squeeze! Otherwise it will be too watery.
Stephanie
Well thank you! I am so glad you like this recipe.
Carrie Lane
I made this today! Used fresh spinach (which had on hand) and added some finely chopped carrots and celery….because I’m trying to get more veggies in my diet. Also instead of white sauce I used Classico Creamy Alfredo. Lordy…..I think I just took your wonderful recipe and turned it upside down. I’m not much of a chef but your recipes are easy to follow and allowed me to ad lib. Thanks for the inspiration……..<3
Steve
Can you recreate the cheese sauce Applebee’s used with in their curly potato dip
Stephanie
Thank you for your suggestion.
Latashia Jones
Thank you just found this but will be making it today a test run before Thanksgivng and recipes on quick peach cobbler?
Madison
This is a wonderful recipe, made it for Thanksgiving and Christmas Big hit both times!
Maria
Tried this recipe today and it was lovely! My husband does not like Boston Market’s creamed spinach (I LOVE IT), but he liked this recipe. Sweet success. The only change I made because I didn’t have any sour cream on hand was to use 1/4 cup greek yogurt and 1/4 cup cream cheese. Thank you so much for sharing. =)
Latashia Jones
Thank you just found this but will be making it today a test run before Thanksgivng and recipes on quick peach cobbler?
JOE
boston market loads it up on the garlic…
JOE
i will try this soon and let u know how i make out
Ian Mcgregor
This recipe was so bland I almost died of boredom.
Stephanie
I am happy to see you didn’t die. You were able to leave a comment. Thank you.
Yvonne
What is “white sauce”?
Yvonne
never mind.. lol
Franklyn sammy
Im a guy lol.. What if I have No flour??????
Judy Lee
Do you have corn starch? arrow root? a potato which you can peal, dice, boil, drain well and mash? These are all tickeners.
Sue Dodson
Yuk!
Laurenc76
This recipe is delish’ ! I used soy milk instead of regular whole milk, and it still tasted great ! I will definately make this again !!
stephaniemanley
I am happy this worked well with Soy milk.
Zander
This is the closest creamed spinach to, that my Slovenian grandmother made for me as kid in the 1960’s. NO one comes as close as grandma’s recipe as Boston Market’s!
Thanks for the recipe!
Z in Cleveland, Ohio
stephaniemanley
That is a very lovely compliment. Thank you. I know Grandmother’s cooking is some of the best out there.
Julie Nicolay
A few years ago I called the Boston Market corporate offices to compliment some excellent customer service and wound up having a friendly chat with the person on their end…and we discussed our favorite thing: their creamed spinach! I got her to tell me the ingredients that made theirs so special and wasn’t surprised to discover the reason behind the dish’s 20 grams of fat: sour cream, cream cheese and bleu cheese! So, just thought I’d share that discovery (and I just made my own creamed spinach that’s far less in fat and uses low fat yogurt, low fat milk, garlic, a bit of garlic hot sauce and parmesan cheese! Mmmm! Thanks for you wonderful recipes; I love this site! 🙂
stephaniemanley
Thank you very much for your lovely compliment. It’s good to know that they are helpful about discussing their recipes.