Blanching spinach for 1 to 2 minutes is sufficient.

Spinach is a very easy to cook vegetables, so spinach blanching does not need a long time, blanching is not only in order to make spinach can be cooked, but also in order to be able to make spinach in the oxalic acid removed.

After the water boils, put in the spinach for about a minute and then you can fish out. If you cook it for too long, the spinach will become soft, but lose its crispy texture, so you don't need to be too long, just blanch it a little to remove the oxalic acid. After blanching the spinach need to squeeze out all the water inside, so that the cold spinach will be more flavorful.

Cooking spinach notes

1, should not be eaten with cucumber, tofu, cucumber will have vitamin C decomposition enzyme, will be spinach in the vitamin C destruction of a clean. In addition, oxalic acid in the human body and calcium combination is most likely to form kidney stones or bladder stones, if the food in the appropriate increase in the content of some calcium, you can prevent the formation of stones.

2, cooking time should not be too long, because vitamin C is easy to oxidize after heat.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Spinach