Pasta with roasted garlic alfredo and spinach
A jar of alfredo sauce becomes dinner when you stir it with pasta and leafy greens. The sauce is rich and garlicky; the spinach keeps it from sitting too heavy. Cook one pan and serve two in twenty minutes.
About 440 calories a serving, 16 g protein, 87 g carbohydrate, 2 g fat. From USDA figures for 75% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 4 oz fresh spinach
From your shelf
- 1 jar [about 15 oz] roasted garlic alfredo sauce
Staples
- 8 oz pasta
- for pasta water salt
- to taste pepper
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add 8 oz pasta and stir once. Cook until just tender, about 9 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- While the pasta cooks, pour the jar of roasted garlic alfredo sauce into a second pot or deep skillet and warm it gently over low heat, stirring now and then so it heats evenly without scorching.
- When the pasta is just tender, scoop out 1 cup of the pasta water and set it aside. Drain the pasta and add it to the warm sauce, tossing to coat.
- Tear 4 oz fresh spinach into the pasta and sauce, tossing constantly until the spinach wilts into the creamy sauce, about 1 minute. If the sauce tightens up, loosen it with a splash of the reserved pasta water.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Divide between two bowls and serve at once.
Note Swap spinach for broccoli if you like; toss it in at the very end and warm it through. Leftovers keep for two days in a container in the fridge and reheat gently with a splash of water. Serve with crusty bread to soak up the sauce.
On the label
LIGHT CREAM (CREAM, MILK), WATER, BUTTER (CREAM, NATURAL FLAVORINGS), PARMESAN AND ROMANO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), ENZYME MODIFIED EGG YOLK, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF GARLIC PUREE, GRANULATED ROASTED GARLIC, PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, RENNET), SEA SALT, BLACK PEPPER, WHITE PEPPER, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM.
Rao's, prepared pasta & pizza sauces, serving 62 GRM, package 15 oz/425 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as garlic, alfredo sauce. Half of it left? Use up the garlic.