1 steam fresh spinach
1 brown rice
1 tsp butter
1/2 onion
1 celery
Directions
Steam spinach; after spinach is cooked, approximately 5 minutes. Use
excess water for cooking brown rice. Cook rice accordingly. In frying
pan, saute onion (chopped small) and celery (chopped small) in pat of
butter. After rice is cooked, add spinach
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Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Rice; Spinach; Vegetable
The History of Recipes
Transcribed cooking instructions as an idea can be traced far back into the far past, in truth as far back into history as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and maybe further still. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these old cook books were just simple hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
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We hope you enjoy this Brown Rice & Spinach recipe.
