How Long To Cook Spinach In A Slow Cooker

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This slow cooker keto creamed spinach recipe only needs 3 ingredients and is done in a hour. It is a rich and tasty, low carb side dish that only has 2.2g net carbs.

You might also like this slow cooker keto greens Alfredo recipe.

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Creamed spinach is not something that I grew up on. Actually I don't think I ever had it until Boston Market came along and I had it there. Now I love it and since I'm on a low carb diet, I thought this would be the perfect side dish to make.

So today I have made for you thisslow cooker keto creamed spinach recipe. It only takes 3 ingredients and 1 hour in the slow cooker. But the best thing is that you can dump your ingredients and walk away and that includes 2 bags of spinach!

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Other Low Carb Creamy Vegetable Recipes

I have a thing for creamy, cheesy vegetables because they are tasty and usually low carb. I have made a creamy green bean casserole for Thanksgiving andB russel sprouts with cheese sauce. But this spinach dish is my favorite. Mychicken and creamy spinach skillet dinner is similar to this but it's more creamy than cheesy It is out of this world too.

blue bowl filled with creamed spinach made in a slow cooker with 3 ingredients

This keto creamed spinach is a tasty side dish but can also be used in making casseroles. Mix with cooked chicken, cauliflower rice and top with cheese. Bake for a delicious low carb casserole.

The 3 Ingredients I Used

I used a huge bag of baby spinach I bought at Costco. I also bought a block of Cabot white cheddar cheese and cream cheese. You can use regular cheddar but I like this one because it has so much taste and bagged shredded cheddar sometimes has more carbs.

collage of creamed spinach ingredients : chopped spinach, shredded Cabot cheddar cheese and cream cheese cubed

Keto Creamed Spinach Recipe

So this dish is super easy. You add baby leaf spinach, cream cheese and cheddar cheese to your slow cooker. Turn on to high for 1 hour, then come back and mix it all up.

spinach and cheeses in crock before cooking

By the way, place the cream cheese on the bottom so it melts on the hot crock. The spinach will wilt perfectly and the cheddar will melt as well. Just mix and serve.

finished keto creamed spinach in the slow cooker

How Much Does This Spinach Side Dish Make

The only downside of this recipe is that it only makes about 6 decent size servings. Yes that's right. I filled the crock with spinach and look how much it cooks down. Now I imagine you can probably add more spinach at this point. I'll have to try that and get back to you. Regardless, it's delicious!

Slow Cooker Keto Creamed Spinach

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Since I've updated this recipe it made 6 portions. I froze 3 of them and ate the other 3 for lunch and dinner!

Of course you don't have to do this in a slow cooker, you can easily do this is a skillet or pot, it's just hard to manage all the spinach so I liked making it in the slow cooker.

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This keto creamed spinach was like pure low carb, comfort food to me. I hope you give this one a try.

Please Note: I updated this recipe to use more spinach to increase the serving to 6 from 4. This brought the carbs down and so the nutrition for one serving is:

154 cals / 12.2g fat /3.5g carbs / 1.3g fiber / 7.7g protein = 2.2g net carbs

3 Ingredient Slow Cooker Cheesy Spinach (low carb)

This 3 ingredient slow cooker keto creamed spinach is a rich and tasty, low carb side dish that you can make in no time at all! Each serving is only 2.2g net carbs.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Servings 6

Calories 154 kcal

12 cups baby spinach leaves, chopped
4 oz cream cheese
4 oz cheddar cheese, grated

Add the cream cheese to the slow cooker, then 10 cups of spinach and lastly the cheddar cheese.
Place lid on the slow cooker and cook on high for 1 hour.
Take off the lid and mix in the rest of the spinach until it's wilted and everything is well combined.
Serve or freeze.

The nutrition for one serving is:

209 cals / 17g fat /4.6g carbs / 2.2g fiber / 11g protein = 2.4g net carbs

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Nutritional information for the recipe is provided as a courtesy and is approximate only. You should always do your own calculations if you are concerned about the accuracy of this or any recipe. I use the Lose It app for all of my nutritional information because I have for years.