Creamy Spinach Pasta Recipe

The Spinach Pasta recipe is an easy, healthy, and delicious pasta covered in a creamy spinach sauce everyone will love. A favorite for both kids and adults and an excellent option for gatherings or kids lunch box.

Creamy Spinach Pasta is a quick, delicious pasta recipe with wholesome spinach added to it along with fresh cream and cheese. This recipe is so easy to make, and you can use any other type of pasta like macaroni or penne. You can serve this as a main course dish to go with any other Italian dish or eat all by itself.

This recipe is the perfect example of hiding veggies in food to trick the kids into eating them. Otherwise, they wouldn’t touch a bowl full of spinach.

Health Benefits of Spinach

Spinach has so many health benefits. It’s loaded with nutrients and antioxidants. It is not only high in iron but rich in vitamins A and C. Eating spinach may benefit eye health, reduce oxidative stress, help prevent cancer, and reduce blood pressure levels. - Source Healthline

This recipe is perfect for?

• Kids lunch box or when making a lunch or dinner in a hurry.
• The dish is packed full of vitamins and other nutrients.
• Using few ingredients which is an economical meal

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Creamy Spinach Pasta Ingredients

• Pasta: use any kind of pasta like penne, spaghetti, or farfalle.
• Spinach puree: I have prepared the puree by blending raw spinach in the blender. I did not blanch the spinach.
• Garlic: minced or you can also use garlic powder.
• Fresh cream (or whipping cream): you can either use fresh cream or whipping cream. If you don't have cream, use alfredo sauce, mayonnaise or cream cheese tastes good.
• Cheese: Use mozzarella or any processed cheese.
• Olive oil (or butter): I have used olive oil in this recipe.
• Seasonings: oregano, black pepper powder, and salt.

How to Make Creamy Spinach Pasta

Firstly, bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil. Then, according to the package instructions, add some salt to the water and cook the pasta. I used Farfalle, but you can use your favorite pasta. Other good pasta options are penne, spaghetti, or even tortellini!

While the pasta is cooking, make the spinach puree. I took 3-4 cups of raw spinach in a blender along with ½ cup of water. Blended to make a puree.

Reserve ¼ cup of the pasta water before draining the pasta. The pasta water contains starches that will help the spinach stick to the pasta and makes the spinach sauce extra creamy.

Then, heat olive oil in a pan on medium flame. Add minced garlic and saute for 30 secs.

Next, add spinach puree & sauté it for about 2-3 minutes till the raw smell of the spinach goes away.

Add in the cream or homemade white sauce, salt, black pepper powder & oregano. Give a quick stir and cook for a minute.

Follow it by adding boiled Farfalle pasta. Give it a quick mix and stir fry on high flame for another 1 minute, and pasta in spinach sauce is ready. 

Serve on a plate and sprinkle some cheese over it for garnish. 

What to serve with Creamy Spinach Pasta

You can enjoy a big bowl of healthy Creamy Spinach Pasta and call it a meal, but if you want to go all out, the following foods go great with spinach pasta!

Garlic Bread

Caprese Salad

Tomato Soup

Variations

• If you don’t have olive oil, you can either use butter or regular cooking oil.
• You can use any kind of pasta or even Zucchini noodles for a low-carb option.
• Try using whole wheat, lentils, or veggie pasta for kids.
• If you don’t have cream at home you can replace it with the same amount of mayonnaise or full-fat milk or Alfredo white sauce.
• You can also add sweet corn for this healthy spinach pasta, which goes well with spinach.
• If you dont have time to prepare spinach puree, you can just use finely chopped spinach.

Tips

• You can also add cheese to the Pasta while cooking.
• Pasta sauce should not be too thick else after mixing pasta they become dry when eaten later.
• The sauce will seem thin when you start to mix in the pasta. Don’t worry, just keep tossing. The starches from the pasta will mix into the sauce to give a perfect consistency.

More Pasta Recipes

• Avocado Pasta
• Cold Pasta Salad
• Creamy Tomato Pasta
• Mac and Cheese (Instant Pot)
• Mayonnaise Veggie Pasta
• Butternut Squash Pasta

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