We love pasta in our house, and we make it quite often. I guess you could say we’re avid pasta eaters! This is another super easy pasta recipe to make for dinner. It requires just a few, simple ingredients. Hot, cooked pasta is tossed in a cheesy sauce with some sauteed veggies mixed in too.
Ingredients needed:
farfalle pasta (farfalle is “bow tie” pasta, but you can sub rotini or penne if you’d like) red bell pepper garlic fresh spinach ricotta cheese 1% milk fresh basil ground nutmeg, salt and pepper
How to make Farfalle with Spinach and Ricotta:
You’ll cook the pasta according to the package instructions. You can cook it to al dente (a little more firm to the bite) or tender. It’s all a matter of preference for how you like to eat your pasta. While the pasta is cooking, you’ll sauté the bell pepper and garlic in olive oil. Then you’ll stir in fresh spinach, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Ricotta cheese and milk are added to the cooked veggies to create the creamy sauce. That sauce is added to the hot, cooked pasta along with some fresh basil.
And that’s it! The pasta will be coated with that cheesy sauce. And there are plenty of veggies swimming around in the pasta dish too. This Farfalle with Spinach and Ricotta is a vegetarian dish, but you could always add in some cooked chicken if you want more protein in there. Sometimes I add in sun dried tomatoes and toasted pine nuts too!
This recipe makes four servings. I like to make it for just my husband and myself so we have leftovers the following day. Enjoy!
Here are a few more pasta recipes you might like to try:
Greek Chicken Pasta Toss Sun Dried Tomato Pasta Chicken Pasta Primavera Shrimp Scampi Pasta Skillet Pasta Carbonara Creamy Pumpkin Pasta One Pot Chicken Fajita Pasta Pasta Rustica
