Parmesan penne with spinach, warmed through
This frozen pasta comes fully cooked and sauced, so your job is simply to reheat it gently while building flavour on the side. A quick pan of garlicky breadcrumbs and a squeeze of lemon turns a weeknight shortcut into something worth the table.
About 530 calories a serving, 22 g protein, 49 g carbohydrate, 29 g fat. From USDA figures for 100% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 1/2 cup bread or panko
- 1 lemon
From your shelf
- 1 package parmesan penne with spinach in a parmesan sauce, parmesan (Birds Eye)
Staples
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cloves garlic
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a large pan over medium-high heat and add 2 cloves garlic, minced. Toast until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir in 1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs or panko and cook, stirring often, until golden and crisp, about 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, then transfer to a plate.
- In the same pan, heat the frozen penne package according to package directions, usually by adding it to the pan with 2 tablespoons water, breaking it up gently, and stirring often, until heated through and creamy, about 5 minutes.
- Divide the pasta between two bowls, scatter the garlic breadcrumbs over the top, and squeeze 1/4 lemon over each bowl. Serve at once.
Note Swap the breadcrumbs for grated parmesan if you prefer, or use both. Leftovers keep refrigerated for three days and reheat gently in a pan with a splash of water. Serve alongside a green salad or roasted broccoli.
On the label
COOKED ENRICHED PASTA (WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE {IRON}, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), WATER, SPINACH, PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SOYBEAN OIL, NONFAT DRY MILK, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, ALFREDO CHEESE BLEND (PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT, ROMANO CHEESE [PASTEURIZED COW'S MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE), SALT, GARLIC POWDER, XANTHAN GUM, ONION POWDER, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, SPICE.
Birds Eye, frozen dinners & entrees, serving 306 GRM, package 10.8 oz/306 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as parmesan, spinach, penne. Half of it left? Use up the parmesan.