Easiest Way to Cook Yummy One-Pot Healthy Creamy Spinach Asparagus Pasta

One-Pot Healthy Creamy Spinach Asparagus Pasta. As I was searching the web for pasta recipes, I realized most of them called for cream cheese, an entire cup of fattening cream, and a lot of cheese. So I asked myself, how do I come up with a recipe that tastes creamy and flavorful. Adding asparagus and frozen peas directly to the boiling pasta during the last couple minutes of cooking means everything for this seasonal, fresh dinner can be made in one pot.

View Recipe: One-Pot Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes Asparagus Pasta with Creamy Alfredo Sauce This quick and easy Asparagus Pasta is ready to rock pasta night! This creamy homemade fettuccine Alfredo recipe features buttery asparagus, flavorful pesto, and a dusting of parmesan cheese for good measure. Tender mushrooms and chicken breast in a creamy Parmesan sauce all with pasta - there isn't a dinner much better than that in my mind. You can have One-Pot Healthy Creamy Spinach Asparagus Pasta using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of One-Pot Healthy Creamy Spinach Asparagus Pasta

1. Prepare 1/2 of large onion, chopped.
2. You need 8 of asparagus leaves, chopped.
3. It's of garlic salt.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of olive oil.
5. You need of ~ 1 1/2 cup organic chicken stock.
6. It's 1 1/2 cup of reduced 1% milk.
7. It's 1 handful of spinach leaves.
8. It's of ~2 cups Italian dry garofalo pasta (or any other variety).
9. It's 1-2 tsp of cornstarch (depending how thick you want your sauce to be).
10. Prepare of optional: sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
11. You need of optional: some cubed smoked ham or cooked sausage chunks.
12. Prepare of optional: some diced bell pepper for more sweet tanginess to cut the richness, add in with the onions.

When the noodles are near done, add the milk and the cream cheese, as well as a pinch of kosher salt and cracked black pepper. Stir well to mix and melt the cheese, and keep tossing the pasta until completely coated. Once the sauce has thickened and coated the pasta, add the cooked onion/garlic/asparagus you set aside earlier to the noodles as well as the spinach, capers, lemon zest, and. This easy ricotta pasta recipe is packed with greens.

One-Pot Healthy Creamy Spinach Asparagus Pasta step by step

1. Heat up the oil in a small heavy-bottomed saucepan with the diced onions and asparagus.
2. Toss in some garlic salt and sautee for around 3-5 minutes..
3. Then add in the chicken stock and milk, it should be around 1.5 inches from the rim (so that it doesn't boil over)..
4. Add in the dry pasta.
5. Continue to cook on medium heat until the mixtures starts to boil..
6. Then, boil the mixture for around 10 minutes stirring every once in a while with a rubber spatula until the pasta is soft and al dente. (If you want to add ham or cooked meatballs or sausages, now is the time to do it).
7. Add in the spinach and stir.
8. Dissolve corn starch in around 1 tablespoon of water and add to the sauce/pasta..
9. Stir until the sauce thickens a little (sauce will continue to thicken as it cools!) and remove from heat..
10. Serve plain or sprinkle with some parmesan cheese (optional).
11. If not salty enough, sprinkle some more garlic salt until desired taste..
12. Enjoy!.

It's a delicious, quick, one-pot recipe featuring ricotta, spinach, kale and broccoli rabe. First choose a pasta you like. I like a flat pasta you can twirl, like fettuccine, linguine or tagliatelle (which is pictured). This is a creamy pasta dish you can cook in one single pot - that's right, even the pasta cooks right in the sauce! Made with bacon, fresh asparagus and lots of cream sauce.