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A 25 minute skillet meal, this Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta has a light yet creamy sauce. It’s versatile being easy enough for a weeknight, but delicious enough to make for a date night!
Spinach and Sundried Tomato Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 lb pasta
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1.5 Tbsp minced garlic
- 6 oz cream cheese softened
- 1.5 cups milk
- 1.5 cups pasta water
- 6 oz marinated sundried tomatoes chopped
- 2 cups spinach roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup parmesan with more to top if desired
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook pasta as directed on package. Reserve 1.5 cups pasta water for sauce
- While pasta is cooking, add oil and garlic to pan on medium heat. Once browned, add cream cheese, milk, and pasta water. Whisk while cooking
- Add sundried tomatoes, spinach, parmesan, salt, and pepper and mix. Add cooked, drained pasta and mix.
25 Minute Skillet Meal
You know I love a quick recipe and I love it even more when it uses less dishes. I’m all for making cooking more simple without sacrificing flavor! This Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta recipe has it all.
What to Pair with Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
This recipe has the option of eating as-is or adding a few extras. You may consider adding the following:
Add Chicken
I actually didn’t add this into the recipe, because there are so many ways to add chicken. You could bake in a pan, use rotisserie chicken, or add the pre-grilled strips to the meal. This just depend on your preferences and how simple you want the meal to be. Adding chicken can introduce another texture and adds protein.
Add a Vegetable side
You may also add a vegetable as a side. The dish has spinach and sun-dried tomatoes, but if you added another side some great options could be zucchini, broccoli, or a salad. Again this totally depends on preference, but adds more fiber to the meal.
Let’s Talk About Carbs
They’re essential to our bodies functioning, they’re delicious, and they’ve recently been demonized in diet culture! Especially with a dieting past, it’s easy to have some level of fear of carbohydrates. But they are not the enemy!
Carbs are what help our brains and muscles function their best. We’re going to be better off including them in what we eat. There are so many different types of carbs! None of them are “bad” (I don’t consider any foods to be “bad”), but offer different energy levels and nutrients to our bodies. Learning what to pair them with and how different types make you feel is what will benefit your body the most.
Why is the Recipe First?
I’m glad you asked! I know it can get overwhelming to be excited about a recipe, then have to scroll through a seemingly never-ending life story before finally finding the recipe. I started to notice it becoming a difficulty for some of my nutrition counseling clients. So that’s why I’ve created No Guilt Nutrition Recipes – a place where finding the actual recipe isn’t so difficult or cumbersome. Usually the recipe is hidden in a blog post or you have to pay a subscription to see the recipe quickly, but here you’ll find it first on the page!
Why are the Recipes Called “Intuitive Eating Recipes”?
No Guilt Nutrition recipes are definitely not the only thing you can eat if you are eating intuitively (really, you can eat anything that you want/feels good to your body!), but I noticed there are way too many diet culture entrenched recipes out there. These recipes give you delicious food without potentially triggering numbers or diet talk. They also provide a gentle nutrition approach by encouraging balance in your meals without having strict requirements for what that may look like.
