Fried Eggs with Spinach is an easy dish you can make in one pan. It is packed with great flavors and nutritious foods. You need 6 ingredients only. It makes a delicious lunch or dinner that is ready in no time!
I am so obsessed with eggs, especially fried and sunny-side up. I can crack eggs on any vegetable I cook in a pan and this Fried Eggs with Spinach recipe is one of my favorites. My mouth starts to water once I see that the yolk leaks on the cooked spinach. Watch the video below and see it yourself! Nobody can resist that yolk! YUM! We mostly have this for a busy weeknight dinner, but you can have it for breakfast as well if you need a change on your regular Healthy Banana Pancakes or cereals.
How to Make Fried Eggs with Spinach
This is a super easy recipe that you can make for dinner on weekdays. It is like the green version of our Turkish Egg Dish Menemen. Heat olive oil in a pan, add in onions and cook until transparent. Roughly chop the spinach leaves if they are large, but no need for this if you are using baby spinach leaves. Just add them as they are. You can even find washed and chopped spinach leaves in packages at the market, so use them if you need to be quicker. Cook stirring occasionally until tender and no juice left. Season with salt and black pepper.
If your pan is not large enough, put the spinach in batches. Watch how in the video below. Put the first batch, cover the pan and let it cook for about 5 minutes so that the spinach leaves wilt. Then uncover and add the second batch and repeat this if needed until there is no spinach left.
Make wells for eggs. You can add as many eggs as you like. Crack one egg into each well and cook until the whites set, about 3-4 minutes. You can gently poke the whites with a wooden spoon to help them cook well. Sprinkle salt and black pepper on each egg.
I don't whisk the eggs before adding them into the pan in this recipe because I love to keep the yolks slightly runny and dip bread right in the center of them. Oh my! Did you see it in the video below? That moment makes me forget everything in the world!
If you want, you can whisk eggs first and then pour over the cooked spinach. Make sure you don't overcook the eggs if you try this version. Remove the pan from the heat after 2-3 minutes when eggs are still a bit loose.
Are eggs and spinach healthy?
Eggs are one of the healthiest foods packed with protein. Also, they keep you full for a long time, so they make perfect breakfast, lunch and dinner. When you combine eggs with spinach, you have one of the healthiest meals because just like eggs, spinach is a nutrient-dense vegetable. It is a great source of calcium and iron. What’s more, there is no ingredient here that increases the calorie of this recipe.
In Turkey, generally people love spinach dishes with yogurt, but experts say that when you eat it with yogurt, the calcium in yogurt and the iron in spinach combine, which causes zero benefit. If you don’t care about vitamins and you are just in search for good taste, go ahead. I sometimes do that as they are perfect pairs, but generally I cook it with eggs and no yogurt is needed that time.
Love eggs as much as I do and want more egg recipes? Check out the following links!
- Baked Eggs in Ricotta Parmesan Creamed Spinach
- Eggs Baked In Avocado
- Eggs In Hell - Mexican Style
- Egg Stuffed Tomato Recipe
Fried Eggs with Spinach
A super easy meatless recipe with eggs and spinach.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Cooking
- Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 1pound spinach, washed well and roughly chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 eggs
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add in onions and cook until transparent, about 5 minutes.
- Add in the spinach and season with salt and black pepper. Cook it stirring gently until the spinach leaves wilt.
- Make 4 wells in the spinach mixture when it is tender enough. Crack an egg into each well. Cook for 3-4 minutes until the egg whites are set.
- Sprinkle salt and black pepper on each egg.
- Serve hot.
Keywords: spinach eggs, spinach with eggs, eggs with spinach
Have ever used frozen spinach? That's all I Have on hand, how much would you recommend using?
Hi Angela, never used frozen spinach, so I don't want to mislead you. But I guess you can use the same amount. Spinach shrinks anyway.
I made it with frozen spinach, put it in the pan first with oil to get rid of any excess water then added butter, onion and garlic. I added a good lunch of chilli flakes and salt a tablespoon of cream friache, stirred together then cracked eggs.
My husband loved the vege breaky!!!
Thanks for this great recipe. It’s become a go to on the weekends. I usually add a few sun dried tomatoes to the onions and then top with some grated Parmesan at the end. We eat on top of toast. So easy and delicious!
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I am always looking for low or no carb recipes for my husband because I am a carb queen, this was perfect and delicious. Very quick and easy! I made a scrambled egg version for myself with some sharp cheddar. This will absolutely be on our normal breakfast menu from now on.
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Great, simple recipe. Used a bit of garlic infused oil for sauteing the onions. Added some egg beaters (egg whites) after adding nestling just two eggs into the wilted spinach to bind it all more like an omelette. Cooked eggs covered over medium-low heat. Then finished with some grated parmesan, a few sliced cheery tomatoes and avocado. Delicious!
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Simple yet Succumptous. Go to break fast dish.
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Tried this recipe and it was delicious and quick to make!
Great recipe!! Tried it loved it. Will keep having it!
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Hi Anne! Glad you loved the recipe! Thanks for the feedback!
Whoa!! This looks amazing. All you need is a big loaf of crusty bread and a glass of Turkish tea.
So GOOD.
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Thank you my friend! I can eat the whole thing with a loaf of bread! My favorite combination.
So glad to find this recipe. I often cook spinach with pork or soup but still wanna try more recipes.
This idea looks interesting and also beautiful!
Thank you Natalie! I love spinach in soups too, but this one is my favorite.
Yes. I did try this and it was delicious! Although the spinach was overcooked a little bit, it's good anyway 😛
Glad you liked it Natalie! Thanks for sharing your feelings here.
hey Zerrin, I like this recommendation. It's fast and light. Thank you for the idea
and keep up the great work! 🙂
Now, this is a gorgeous breakfast. Gimme all the eggs and spinach. Seriously, a breakfast does not get better than this.
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Thank you my friend! Super easy too!
Thank you for your feedback Zerrin. I was telling my friend about this particular recipe. Thank god for history in favourites - thought I had bookmarked it.
I have this really nice scrummy, yummy improvisation for porridge, but was not sure which post I could add it to as you have nothing similar on your breakfast topics. Would love to be able to share with your readers. Is this possible?
Awesome site - great photos - definetely an art to it. Have seen some horrible, horrible pictures of food - very sad.
KiwiSue- I do love such comments giving additional information. You gave a fantasitc recipe there! Love of cooking is something like this. Being inspired by a dish and cooking something else with your adjustments. It's the magic, isn't it?I've never tried to cook silverbeet, might be a good substitute. I must give it a try. And parmesan on the top sounds amazing! I bet it makes the dish irresistible! You made me hungry with this recipe, thanks!
Big thumbs up. Great alternative to eggs florentine (which admittedly I have never cooked).
From lack of having all the listed ingredients I did a bit of improvisation:
Had no onion, so used some finely sliced fresh garlic - which I fried a little in avocado oil and a bit of margarine (had no butter) - then added the tomato paste;
Silverbeet next (had no spinach) which I cooked quite a bit longer till nearly soft;
Once the silverbeet was pretty much cooked and the eggs were added I sprinkled some freshly grated parmesan and covered it with a lid until how one likes their eggs - I like my yolk runny.
Had with toasted white sandwich bread - yum, yum, yum.
A very satisfying dish indeed.
I do spinach egg and goat cheese, and it probably is true of that also? I've never heard about calcium and spinach before.
I do love my eggs with spinach though.
I love spinach and eggs together!
Daily Spud - I love the combination too but I have been trying not to eat them so often since I learnt it.
Interesting about the spinach and yoghurt, because thats a combination that I love (though I'm willing to give spinach + egg a try too!)
Vrinda - It's originally for lunch or dinner, but I love it at breakfast as well.
Back again with fav egg dish..Is it a breakfast item?I will add the award logo soon Zerrin...thanx
This is a great combo and very healthy, nice photo shot! Nice to learn Turkish dishes from your blog : )
Lisa - I learnt it from my pregnant friends. Doctors always warn them not to eat these together or even within the same hour. They say that we should eat yogurt 1 hour before or after spinach.
Natasha - It's most probably true for cream as it's also a dairy product.
Janet- Thank you so much. It tastes wonderful.
Love it topped with egg!
Do you think the same is true if you combine spinach with cream?
Interesting--I didn't know that about spinach and yogurt. It looks fantastic with the egg!
Thank you sophie, you know how much I love egg, so I love this combination as well.
Zerrin, again a lovely dish with spinach & an egg!!! What a lovely combination of flavours!!