• Yield: Makes 4 servings


Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons peanut oil

  • 1 1/2 pounds spinach, trimmed, washed, and dried.

  • 1 tabespoon crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste

  • 1 teaspoon sugar

  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic

  • 1/4 cup lime juice


Instructions

1. Heat the oil in a large skillet until it begins to smoke.

2. Add the spinach and stir constantly until it wilts, about a minute.

3. Add the red pepper, sugar, salt, pepper, garlic, and lime juice, and cook another 30 seconds or so, still stirring.

4. Serve immediately.

Variation: Spinach with Lime and Cilantro
Before the oil smokes, add 1 onion, peeled and diced; cook until it is soft. Raise the heat to high, brown the onion a bit, and add the spinach as above, with 1 cup minced cilantro. Omit the red pepper, sugar, and garlic; proceed as in original recipe.

Other greens to use: Chard

Note: You can make this as hot as you like, but don't omit the sugar, a "secret ingredient" that brings all the other flavors together.


From Leafy Greens, by Mark Bittman.