Italian Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts

Name: Italian Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1/4 cup, golden raisins; 1/4 cup, hot water; 2 tablespoons, pine nuts; 3 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 3 , (10-ounce) bags curly-leaf spinach, stemmed and torn into bite-sized pieces; 3 , shallots, sliced thin; 1/4 cup, balsamic vinegar; 1 teaspoon, light brown sugar; , Salt

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2007

SERVES4

TIME40 minutes

Italian Spinach with Raisins and Pine Nuts

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most of the spinach with raisins and pine nuts recipes we encountered left us with soggy spinach, shriveled raisins, and bland pine nuts. For our recipe, we opted to use curly-leaf spinach, which has a lower water content than other spinach...

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