Hello friends and welcome to a return to the wonderful vintage cookbook, The A-Z of Cooking. The last time I visited this book was back in 2016/17 when I cooked a LOT of recipes from it. There were only a few recipes left that I wanted to cook and this one for spinach pancakes with tomato sauce was top of the list! I love the combination of spinach and cheese – in spanakopita, in cannelloni and these pancakes did nothing to change my mind!
The finished pancakes looked very much like cannelloni! And to be honest, while the taste was great, this was a lot of work. The sauce needed to simmer for a few hours, the pancakes took some time to cook, the wrapping and rolling was fiddly. Alas, no two of my rolled pancakes were the same size! By the time these came out of the oven I was almost too tired to eat. It was only the day after that realised this recipe was in the “Night Before” chapter of the A-Z. It would have been far less tiring to make the sauce and pancakes the day before!
Maybe because I was thinking of cannelloni, the method of cooking seemed a bit odd to me. The recipe says to fill the pancakes, place them in the baking dish and then sprinkle cheese over the top. You were then meant to serve the sauce on the side.
I did this but about half way through the cook, I gave into to the urge to pour the sauce over the top! I then added more cheese.
Deeelicious!
Spinach Pancakes with Tomato Sauce – The Recipe
My notes on the recipe
- I used frozen spinach
- I subbed ricotta cheese for the cottage cheese
- Leave yourself plenty of time – this took me around 3 and a half hours all up.
And, if l like me you can’t get enough spinach and cheese, here are some other ways you can spin these flavours!
- Spinach and Cheese Cannelloni
- Spinach and Cheese Triangles
- Spanakopita
- Spinach cob Dip
- Spinach Quiche
- My take on Ottolenghi’s Spinach and Gorgonzola Stuffed Potatoes
Have a great week!
