Pasta with Blue Cheese Spinach Sauce
Pasta with Blue Cheese Spinach Sauce takes approximately 45 minutes from beginning to end. One serving contains 565 calories, 20g of protein, and 27g of fat. This recipe serves 3. For $1.89 per serving, this recipe covers 29% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Not a lot of people really liked this main course. 6 people found this recipe to be yummy and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up baby spinach, short pasta, butter, and a few other things to make it today. It is brought to you by Framed Cooks. With a spoonacular score of 73%, this dish is solid. Similar recipes are Blue Cheese, Mushroom, and Spinach Pasta Salad, Blue Cheese Spinach Orzo Sauce, and Pasta Tossed with Blue Cheese Sauce.
Servings: 3
Ingredients:
8 ounces baby spinach (or regular spinach, stems removed and roughly chopped)
4 ounces blue cheese, plus extra for garnish if you like
4 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper to taste
8 ounces short pasta (campanelle, ziti, penne, farfalle, etc)
Equipment:
tongs
pot
Cooking instruction summary:
Cook pasta in salted water according to package directions. About one minute before it is done, scoop out a cup of the pasta water. About 30 seconds before it's done, add the spinach and stir until the spinach is just wilted. Drain.Return pasta and spinach to the pot and add the butter and cheese. Toss with tongs until butter and cheese is melted and everything is mixed together.Drizzle in just enough pasta water to make a light sauce. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed.Serve at once on warmed plates, adding some blue cheese crumbles to the plates belonging to true blue blue cheese lovers!
Step by step:
1. Cook pasta in salted water according to package directions. About one minute before it is done, scoop out a cup of the pasta water. About 30 seconds before it's done, add the spinach and stir until the spinach is just wilted.
2. Drain.Return pasta and spinach to the pot and add the butter and cheese. Toss with tongs until butter and cheese is melted and everything is mixed together.
3. Drizzle in just enough pasta water to make a light sauce. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed.
4. Serve at once on warmed plates, adding some blue cheese crumbles to the plates belonging to true blue blue cheese lovers!
Nutrition Information:
covered percent of daily need
